Managed to bump into him today....as always a really nice fella.
I must say he looked as fit and young as he did all those years back...trully remarkable in fact....looked like he could pull on a shirt and get straight out on the park.....I kid you not.
I mentioned Lennies book (where Lennie describes him as the best signing he ever made) and he said that Lennie had promised to send him one but hadn't as yet.
I also mentioned that I was going to post a little message on here saying I'd met him and he asked to be remembered to all Charlton fans and to say that his stay at Charlton were some of the greatest times of his life.
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I loved the interview after the Leeds game, "when was the last time you scored 2 in a match?"..."i've nowt scored 2 in a match ever".
That was the first time i realised how "Yorkshire" he was.
Would love him back at the club.
Quite possibly Off_it.........................quite possibly.
Absolute legend for us.
Which many fans could do with remembering at times...
I rest my case...
Great player for us but no hero IMHO
"'Appens I play for Charlton" is my favourite quote.
Not sure that was ever proved was it.....not as far as I know anyway.....The News of The World wasn't it...oh come on really Ben! There are two sides to every story.....not that The News of The World ever consideres printing both sides that is.
He's still with the same woman (his wife) from those days by the way.
As a side issue, his parents are two of the most pleasant people you could ever wish to meet and often travelled down to London (and all over as a matter of fact), to watch Peter and The Addicks play. They were well loved at Charlton I have to say and they got to know a lot of us fans by name.
As for him being a Charlton hero/legend....well I think we can say that Sir Clive was rightfully called a hero for his heroics at Wembley.....but I wonder if he would have ever worn an Addicks shirt if it hadn't been for one Peter Shirtliff that May night at St Andrews in 1987..............I very much doubt it.......in fact I'll go one further and say he 'definately' wouldn't have.
Anyone who was at St Andrews that night would certainly and without hesitation call him a Charlton legend....I assume you were there Ben?
Totally agree.
Those 2 goals saved us from possible oblivion & that's why I can't ever remember being more nervous watching Charlton than on that night. Next most nervous was the battle of Stamford Bridge, then the Wembley play off final.
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Probably 2000 or so standing in the Tilden Road end and maybe a couple of hundred in the seats. Most of us thought we'd never see the M6 again never mind London town, Leeds were probably the most pwoper norwty of the pwoper norwty at the time.
I was there...
Fled St Andrews at top speed, back to the car, at the end before the Leeds fans recovered from the disaster that had unfolded for them. Classic moments.
we had about 1800 up there max ....
but deffo a miracle of an occassion as a charlton fan ....and goose pimples at the thought of it........ty Peter Shirtliff
Outnumbered about 8:1: remember the coach I was in being stoned soon after we pulled away from the ground. Hair-raising stuff.
Great player, great captain and I personally could not give a toss about some crap written in the news of the screws or whatever comic it was. The man is a Charlton legend and HERO.
Who knows what the future would have been without his two late goals at St Andrews.......
If we hadnt gone out of business altogether, of course.
There were allegations of domestic violence many years ago.
Yep - I was there, rememeber the coach stopping at Watford Gap services on the way back and everyone singing and dancing about....great game and night and as others have said, probably the single most important game in our history.