When I first moved to Hertfordshire in the 1980's, I went to see our Reserves at Tottenham one midweek lunch time. They played at their old training ground (where Brookfield Farm Tesco is now, for the locals).
We lost 1-7 (Mark Stuart). Just me in the away end.
Sheffield Unitedin Leage Cup second replay in '72 . Not many of us there to see Blades win it in the last minute of extra time with Dearden's offside goal.
[cite]Posted By: E-cafc[/cite]Burnley away 1996-97 league cup. A grand total of 67 Charlton in the away end. Most of us
got free tickets to get in the the ground as a gesture from the directors.
We won 2.1 with David Whyte netting the winner about 5 minutes from time.
Blinding chip shop across the road though, cod, chips, mushy peas and gravy!!
We then drove to Huddersfield via Halifax to go nightclubbing(still can`t work out why)
You went clubbing in huddersfield on a tuesday night?!! Hardcore!
[cite]Posted By: Charlton Charlie[/cite]Middlesborough away about 4 Christmases (is that a word?) ago..Les Reed in charge, we got spanked (although they only scored two) and I counted 27 of us there...and I still got told off for standing...absolutely terrible day....
[cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Sheffield Unitedin Leage Cup second replay in '72 . Not many of us there to see Blades win it in the last minute of extra time with Dearden's offside goal.
Now that brings back some miserable memories.
I rate Billy Dearden's goal the most offside that I've ever seen. It beats Ashley Ward's effort at The Valley ten years ago.
I was living in Manchester in '72. Thoroughly miserable trip back on the train with my mate, Cass.
Same era ... how many made it to the Tranmere Cup replay? We lost 2-4 with a goal for each side in the first minute.
Dave, just to rub it in, they only survived the first replay because at 2-1 down with 10 minutes to go Currie conned the ref. when the ball went off for a goal kick but he picked it up, ran to the flag and took a corner from which Woodward scored the equaliser!
I think there has been a thread on this before but I was at Boro in '83 when Swisdom says there were 23 (I didn't count but that would be about right). However at Blackburn in January 82, we had 7 or 8. The game was due to be held on the Saturday but the country was blanketed in snow and it was called off. Blackburn rearranged it optimistically for the Tuesday night but with London and the south-east still struggling, no-one thought it would go ahead. One of my mates phoned that morning and someone at the Blackburn ground told us it would go ahead. Five of us drove up and found that there were only two other fans in the old away end and they were a father and son who were relatively local. I believe Les Turner was also at the game and was in the seats as it was reported after the match (maybe it the programme), that he had flown from Dublin to be there. I believe Les used to have something to do with managing the Nolan Sisters and if I remember rightly, they had paid for him to fly up as he was with them at a Dublin show on the Saturday at their insistence and having missed the first fixture, it was the only way he could get there in time on the Tuesday.
Burnley midweek in the 90s the coach stopped off at the only service station with a pub about 200yards away from the rear exit.Grimsby saturday in the 90s FACT 73 fans in away end what i was told from a certain Derek Ashley will have to check my records for other games in the 90s.
If a Brighton fan can add a comment, I've been to a couple of away games where the Brighton crowd has outnumbered the home.
One is quite obvious, we played the real Wimbledon at one of those last games at Selhurst when the home crowd were boycotting the game.
We also played Orient (in FA Cup) I think, which was one of those games where randomly a few thousand Brighton fans decided to make a day of it, balloons, beer etc..
The Wimbledon games....lost 3-1 on Boxing Day 1989 (Bennett). The turn out was ok as it normally was there. The Sunday game I was thinking about looks like it was a 2-0 defeat in 1987. We also lost 4-1 there in 1987/88 after being 1-0 up. Mark Reid got sent off.
Back in the day, The Bromley Court Hotel used to run a Dinner/Disco Dance on a Friday and Saturday evening. I turned up one night with my first wife and her best mate. The only other people in there were two other girls on another table for the whole evening. Neither my wife or her mate would get up and dance, so I danced with the other two girls We left soon after and the missus didn't talk to me for a week (bliss!).
I can probably be trumped on size of away crowd, but not size of crowd/stadium size ratio.
It was the Glasgow Cup late 80s - Queens Park vs Partick. The competition had been struggling along for years with the old firm increasingly only playing their reserves and Partick starting to follow suit. This wasn't helped by the fact that the games took place at the business end of the season when everyone had bigger fish to fry. The tournament that year was eventually abandoned due to lack of interest (Celtic and Rangers couldn't be bothered to have their "semi final", so the match in question didn't even actually exist.
Anyway it was a turgid affair with a crowd of around 100 (about 30 aways) held in what was, at the time, I think the highest capacity ground in the UK (Hampden). Every time the ball was ballooned into the terraces (then behind lockable gates) on which there were no fans (most of the ground), the ballboy had to open the gate and scamper up the terrace to retrieve it. Lex "Sexy Lexy" Grant spared us from extra time with one of his few goals for the club. I felt nothing.
I'd add the 0-0 Notts County game back in 1985.. I remember counting the supporters and didn't get above 30, in fact we bought bags of satsumas from a guy through the gate at the back and we had more of them than people to hand them out to. I think lots of us stayed in Nottingham for the afternoon game between Forest and Wimbledon which was also scoreless.....
bbrbob....yep, that Notts Co. game was another one...no-one there. Saturday 11am kick-off (got all the way up there for the original game on the train only for it to be rained off). Our game was terrible but the Forest/Wimbledon one was good and a right result for Dons (think they won the replay). Must be the only time anyone has seen two 0-0's in one day and quite a few of us bunked home on the Dons "special"
[quote][cite]Posted By: SouthOfTheRiver[/cite]If a Brighton fan can add a comment, I've been to a couple of away games where the Brighton crowd has outnumbered the home.
One is quite obvious, we played the real Wimbledon at one of those last games at Selhurst when the home crowd were boycotting the game.
We also played Orient (in FA Cup) I think, which was one of those games where randomly a few thousand Brighton fans decided to make a day of it, balloons, beer etc..[/quote]Surely this should've been posted in largest away crowds?
[cite]Posted By: boggzy[/cite]Ayrsome park towards the end of the season (nothing to play for) - this was maybe the season after we finished playing at Bristol Rovers when we could have made playoffs. Barren empty terrace, about 150 I think. Pretty sure we lost.
Yeah, I was there for that. Reckon it was more like 70/80 though - lowest away crowd I've ever been in.
Edit: And we did lose - even though they'd been reduced to 10 men.
Norwich away in fa cup 3rd round replay in our relegation season from the championship. We won 0-1 with ambrose Scoring early on. Can't recall many being there that night. Pretty sure it was our first win in 18 or so games in all competitions aswell.
[quote][cite]Posted By: bbrbob[/cite]I'd add the 0-0 Notts County game back in 1985.. I remember counting the supporters and didn't get above 30, in fact we bought bags of satsumas from a guy through the gate at the back and we had more of them than people to hand them out to. I think lots of us stayed in Nottingham for the afternoon game between Forest and Wimbledon which was also scoreless.....[/quote]
I was there. Drove up with a few mates and did the Forest thing too.
Can't recall the year but went to Upton park for a league match before segregation and no more than 50, yes that is fifty Charlton fans could be identified but by the time of the second half, we either all had our heads down or in first aid. Bad days indeed.
I'd add the 0-0 Notts County game back in 1985.. I remember counting the supporters and didn't get above 30, in fact we bought bags of satsumas from a guy through the gate at the back and we had more of them than people to hand them out to. I think lots of us stayed in Nottingham for the afternoon game between Forest and Wimbledon which was also scoreless.....
It was 59. And very cold too. Ball was in the air a lot. Les Berry at centre back, not at his best.
I've never been much of an away traveller so I couldn't boast a low league crowd like some can, but I was once the only Charlton fan in a crowd: Southend v Charlton at some youth level (u16?) held at Gloucester Park, Basildon circa 1990.
Rochdale v Charlton in seventies crowd for a 3rd division game 850. We lost and had about 150 there. I believe that's officially the lowest ever league gate we have played in front of.
Not Charlton, but there was a total of 5 of us at Tolka Park (Dublin), when we (OB Odense) played Shelbourne in the Intertoto Cup (2006). The players came down and shook our hands after the game.
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When I first moved to Hertfordshire in the 1980's, I went to see our Reserves at Tottenham one midweek lunch time. They played at their old training ground (where Brookfield Farm Tesco is now, for the locals).
We lost 1-7 (Mark Stuart). Just me in the away end.
You went clubbing in huddersfield on a tuesday night?!! Hardcore!
Yeah that was a bad one. Was it Christmas eve ?
Now that brings back some miserable memories.
I rate Billy Dearden's goal the most offside that I've ever seen. It beats Ashley Ward's effort at The Valley ten years ago.
I was living in Manchester in '72. Thoroughly miserable trip back on the train with my mate, Cass.
Same era ... how many made it to the Tranmere Cup replay? We lost 2-4 with a goal for each side in the first minute.
One is quite obvious, we played the real Wimbledon at one of those last games at Selhurst when the home crowd were boycotting the game.
We also played Orient (in FA Cup) I think, which was one of those games where randomly a few thousand Brighton fans decided to make a day of it, balloons, beer etc..
remember it well - was around Christmas time
wasn't a particularly poor turn-out though as far as I recall
my Dad was outraged he had pay a fiver for us three kids to stand behind the goal with no junior discounts - how times have changed
Bradford away on the (Thursday) night of the 1997 Election was the lowest CAFC away crowd I've been part of
Back in the day, The Bromley Court Hotel used to run a Dinner/Disco Dance on a Friday and Saturday evening. I turned up one night with my first wife and her best mate. The only other people in there were two other girls on another table for the whole evening. Neither my wife or her mate would get up and dance, so I danced with the other two girls We left soon after and the missus didn't talk to me for a week (bliss!).
It was the Glasgow Cup late 80s - Queens Park vs Partick. The competition had been struggling along for years with the old firm increasingly only playing their reserves and Partick starting to follow suit. This wasn't helped by the fact that the games took place at the business end of the season when everyone had bigger fish to fry. The tournament that year was eventually abandoned due to lack of interest (Celtic and Rangers couldn't be bothered to have their "semi final", so the match in question didn't even actually exist.
Anyway it was a turgid affair with a crowd of around 100 (about 30 aways) held in what was, at the time, I think the highest capacity ground in the UK (Hampden). Every time the ball was ballooned into the terraces (then behind lockable gates) on which there were no fans (most of the ground), the ballboy had to open the gate and scamper up the terrace to retrieve it. Lex "Sexy Lexy" Grant spared us from extra time with one of his few goals for the club. I felt nothing.
Wonder if we can identify all 30 who attended??
One is quite obvious, we played the real Wimbledon at one of those last games at Selhurst when the home crowd were boycotting the game.
We also played Orient (in FA Cup) I think, which was one of those games where randomly a few thousand Brighton fans decided to make a day of it, balloons, beer etc..[/quote]Surely this should've been posted in largest away crowds?
Yeah, I was there for that. Reckon it was more like 70/80 though - lowest away crowd I've ever been in.
Edit: And we did lose - even though they'd been reduced to 10 men.
I was there. Drove up with a few mates and did the Forest thing too.
Can't recall the year but went to Upton park for a league match before segregation and no more than 50, yes that is fifty Charlton fans could be identified but by the time of the second half, we either all had our heads down or in first aid. Bad days indeed.
It was 59. And very cold too. Ball was in the air a lot. Les Berry at centre back, not at his best.
Went to Cardiff on a Friday night pre-season in about 2005, never had 100 there, do pre-seasons count though?
The players came down and shook our hands after the game.