Was watching the latest Apprentice and there was obviously a lot of reference to our old sponsors, Viglen. Out of interest, does anyone know how that deal came about?
After doing some digging on Wikipedia, I know that Amstrad took them over in 1994 and the sponsorship of our shirts began then too, but as Lord Sugar is a Yiddo, is one of his advisors an Addick or was there another reason for the sponsorship?
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Spot on. I remember this vividly, being excited at what our kit would look like with a sponsor on (I was 8 at the time !). I seem to remember the club offering to print the sponsor onto peoples replica shirts if they bought them prior to the deal - have I imagined this ?
The sponsorship continued until the play off final against Sunderland when they agreed to let MESH start their sponsorship because I believe Sugar did not want one of his comapnies sponsoring a rival football club to Spurs .
Richard J -You are absolutely right regarding Sugar as well, he didn't want Amstrad (effectively) to sponsor put money into a club other than Spurs so Viglen were more than happy to make way for Mesh.
I think that is all correct.
On a similar sponsor related question, does anyone know what Redbus actually did? I presume it wasn't building red buses....;)
My recollection is that it was an investment company based on media and communications these two links should help http://www.sportbusiness.com/news/140683/charlton-attracts-2-5m-redbus-sponsorship
http://www.redbus.co.uk/
Huddersfield play-off game?
I think he means Ipswich ?
linky thingy
If I remember rightly the shirt we're talking about here was an exact inverse of the home kit entirely ?
Anyone remember the quaser (sp) shirt from the following season with the weird buttons ?
They dropped out of the personal computer market, ironically being supplanted by companies like Mesh - who later became our sponsor!
the one where Johnny Robinson scored that belter from 30 yards or so. On reflection, I think it was near the end of the season as opposed to play offs. As I say, it's my earliest memory so the details are a little hazy!
so Redbus were basically venture capitalists. Cheers for the info guys!
Ahhh...I think that game was in January 2000 - I'm sure Mark Mansfield has gone down in Charlton folklore for saying "that's the goal of the century" despite the century being only a few days old - saying that, he's not far off so far !
Huddersfield v Charlton 1-2
30 yard wonder goal by John Robinson.
Kept wednesday's Sun's Supergoals. Pleased to oblige
The first two are mate, the turquoise lettering version as far as I know is the match worn version, they do come up for sale but usually at £75+
Impressive. You a collector then?
Ive got most of the tops that have been available back to 1990 (Im short on 2-3 types)...the 80's versions are in short supply and can be bloody expensive to be honest. I started buying away shirts and it went from there....I only buy tops that I can actually wear, cant see the point of them being stuck in a cupboard all the time and too many to have on display now.
Could have sworn it was before then! Definitely not my first Charlton memory then as there's obviously the play off final and a few games in the first premiership season.