32,000 was the crowd given if that is the game on 1 Feb 1947
We lost 2 - 3 having been 2 up after 12 minutes. See, all this giving away leads isn't a new thing at all, in fact it's proper Charlton ; - )
That season (46/47) was the first full season after the War and the longest ever. It finished on 14th June. The players nearly went on strike and buying a player often relied on being able to provide a home for him and his family due to the extreme housing shortage caused by the Luftwaffe.
Good book called "Football's War and Peace - The Tumultuous Season of 1946 - 47" by Thomas Taw for those of you who enjoyed a bit of history.
[cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]Fantastic memory you've got there H
Thanks, seems like only yesterday.
You should have seen the letters in the Kentish Independent calling Seed a "useless C***" and demanding he be sacked as he couldn't take us to the next level.
[cite]Posted By: IA[/cite]On Football League show just there a text from a Hartlepool fan. Four of them drove down from monkeyhangerland today and only found out the match was called off when they got to the Valley. Embarrassing.
Yes I heard that as well......how ALL four of them hadn't heard is truly incredible.....and hadn't they been tuned into Talksport or similar....find it hard to believe to be honest..............but maybe it's true.
We sent a monkey up there with a message telling the game was off. Can't understand what could have gone wrong.
LOL!!
As for suing, the country everyone blames for the suing culute is USA, yet you see American football games being played during snow storms and the games are never called off...
[cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]Fantastic memory you've got there H
Thanks, seems like only yesterday.
You should have seen the letters in the Kentish Independent calling Seed a "useless C***" and demanding he be sacked as he couldn't take us to the next level.
Quite right, Henry.
And he'd even lost the FA Cup Final at Wembley the season before.
Should have been sacked - and replaced by Jimmy Trotter.
PS: Just as well, as Charlton actually won the FA Cup that season!!
[cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]yet you see American football games being played during snow storms and the games are never called off...
stadiums are not in tightly packed residential areas
there is no significant away support
they can switch the game to the away team's ground
heavy snow is normal in some areas so they obviously have the appropriate infrastructure to deal with it.
[cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]yet you see American football games being played during snow storms and the games are never called off...
stadiums are not in tightly packed residential areas
there is no significant away support
they can switch the game to the away team's ground
heavy snow is normal in some areas so they obviously have the appropriate infrastructure to deal with it.
Good answer.
However, as for that last answer, I don't want to repeat what's already been said, but we should be able to deal with a few inches of snow every few years. There will be worse snow fall in the future, why not get prepared for it now?
[cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]yet you see American football games being played during snow storms and the games are never called off...
stadiums are not in tightly packed residential areas
there is no significant away support
they can switch the game to the away team's ground
heavy snow is normal in some areas so they obviously have the appropriate infrastructure to deal with it.
Good answer.
However, as for that last answer, I don't want to repeat what's already been said, but we should be able to deal with a few inches of snow every few years. There will be worse snow fall in the future, why not get prepared for it now?
snow like this has occurred only a handful of times in my lifetime - admittedly with global warming the weather is going to be less predictable and more extreme, so it could be that events like this become even rarer, on the other hand they could happen with greater frequency and intensity, nobody can be sure! But what you can be sure of is that nobody will vote for councils that spend a lot of money every year preparing for heavy snow that didn't ever turn up!
It's a question between probables and ponderables.
If heavy snowfall is guaranteed to happen every winter, Canada, Northern USA, Scandinavia, Switzerland/Austria, etc - then it's a no brainer, authorities have infrastructure geared up simarlarly as they have refuse collection (for example).
But if it's a random and occasional event for normally perhaps only a handful of days of the year, then the cost has to be justified and budgeted. In any case, it has to be paid for by someone - which means higher Council Tax payments by you, the individual.
Surly it should be more of a government thing to a local council thing? How much money was lost due to the snow making the roads & pavement dangerous and the less said about the trains the better!
[cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]Surly it should be more of a government thing to a local council thing? How much money was lost due to the snow making the roads & pavement dangerous and the less said about the trains the better!
So you end up paying more in income tax instead. The money's still got to come from somewhere.
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Wow! Sod the snow look at the east terrace - what a crowd
And they were standing in snow and ice!!
The Gliksteins probably declared it as 15,000
We lost 2 - 3 having been 2 up after 12 minutes. See, all this giving away leads isn't a new thing at all, in fact it's proper Charlton ; - )
That season (46/47) was the first full season after the War and the longest ever. It finished on 14th June. The players nearly went on strike and buying a player often relied on being able to provide a home for him and his family due to the extreme housing shortage caused by the Luftwaffe.
Good book called "Football's War and Peace - The Tumultuous Season of 1946 - 47" by Thomas Taw for those of you who enjoyed a bit of history.
Thanks, seems like only yesterday.
You should have seen the letters in the Kentish Independent calling Seed a "useless C***" and demanding he be sacked as he couldn't take us to the next level.
As for suing, the country everyone blames for the suing culute is USA, yet you see American football games being played during snow storms and the games are never called off...
Quite right, Henry.
And he'd even lost the FA Cup Final at Wembley the season before.
Should have been sacked - and replaced by Jimmy Trotter.
PS: Just as well, as Charlton actually won the FA Cup that season!!
the 4 people that left with broken bones wouldn't quite agree.
there is no significant away support
they can switch the game to the away team's ground
heavy snow is normal in some areas so they obviously have the appropriate infrastructure to deal with it.
Lucky there were only 4, it evidently could have been so much worse.
;o)
However, as for that last answer, I don't want to repeat what's already been said, but we should be able to deal with a few inches of snow every few years. There will be worse snow fall in the future, why not get prepared for it now?
If heavy snowfall is guaranteed to happen every winter, Canada, Northern USA, Scandinavia, Switzerland/Austria, etc - then it's a no brainer, authorities have infrastructure geared up simarlarly as they have refuse collection (for example).
But if it's a random and occasional event for normally perhaps only a handful of days of the year, then the cost has to be justified and budgeted. In any case, it has to be paid for by someone - which means higher Council Tax payments by you, the individual.
what a great picture !
How i would have loved to have stood on that terrace in that sort of crowd.
In them days all the small ones would have been passed down over their heads to the front. ;-0)
Perfect for you then Bart!!
But Jimmy Seed told you to stay in your goalmouth, Mr Bartram ....?