Mike kindly sent me his updated, now coffee table sized, version of his 2006 book.
Lots more illustrations and colour. It is just a wonderful book.
It's in the club shop or you could buy it via the CL Amazon link
some comments from reviews
`Goalie Sam's Star Still Shines.' -- Joe Clapson, Newcastle Chronicle
`This book is a pleasure for Charlton fans from start to finish.' -- Tom Green, When Saturday Comes
`This is well written and lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia. A must for the Addicks addict in your life.'
--Andrew Baker Daily Telegraph
` Compulsory bedtime reading for young Addicks? Certainly. Essential reading for the rest of us with any interest in our history? Definitely. -- Charlton Athletic Valley Review
Chatting to Mike he told me a wonderful story about David Hamilton and Sam Bartram which I'll check to see if it's in the book.
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You'd have to take that up with the Newshopper, I'm only interested in factual errors : - )
First edition was very well proofed BTW
“Soon after the kick-off, fog began to thicken rapidly at the far end, travelling past Vic Woodley in the Chelsea goal and rolling steadily towards me. The referee stopped the game, and then, as visibility became clearer, re-started it. We were on top at this time, and I saw fewer and fewer figures as we attacked steadily.”
The game then went unusually silent but Sam remained at his post, peering into the thickening fog from the edge of the penalty area, wondering why the play was not coming his way. “After a long time a figure loomed out of the curtain of fog in front of me. It was a policeman, and he gaped at me incredulously. ‘What on earth are you doing here?’ he gasped. ‘The game was stopped a quarter of an hour ago. The field's completely empty’.”