Man utd in fa cup bolton in the cup norwich st Georges day west ham when we shared with them. no 1 at upton park. At the old den night game we had the whole end. most of the games against palace. southend when curbs got sent to the stands i think it was 1-1. There has been many more but these were when we turned out in numbers win lose or draw they were great days out.
Having read some of the responses on here Arsenal sounds brilliaint!
i will never forget back in the early 80s back on a train from Bolton some of the older lot telling me about their day at Arsenal that year!
Yes, the Arsenal game was something special. We literally 'took' half of the North Bank (all standing back in those days). Electric. Shame we lost but just being there was something special and Arsenal had a great team back then. This was a 4th round game and it followed the Palace game spoken about above so all in all it was a great year. I seem to remember we narrowly missed promotion that year as well.
Does anybody remember the coins being thrown, between supporters at the Highbury game there must have been hundreds thrown at us,but they got them back with interest.
Does anybody remember the coins being thrown, between supporters at the Highbury game there must have been hundreds thrown at us,but they got them back with interest.
Coins, bottles, cans & I seem to remember small wooden "clubs", like skittles but a bit "dumpier"
Yes, the Arsenal game was something special. We literally 'took' half of the North Bank (all standing back in those days). Electric. Shame we lost but just being there was something special and Arsenal had a great team back then. This was a 4th round game and it followed the Palace game spoken about above so all in all it was a great year. I seem to remember we narrowly missed promotion that year as well.
Finished 3rd behind Cloughies Derby & palarse by 6 points I think. Home form let us down, 2 defeats & 8 draws I think it was, think away form was pretty good, about 8 wins, can't remember how many defeats
Anyone who went to Derby that year remember the Derby supporter with a dead rat tied in his hair?
Yes, the Arsenal game was something special. We literally 'took' half of the North Bank (all standing back in those days). Electric. Shame we lost but just being there was something special and Arsenal had a great team back then. This was a 4th round game and it followed the Palace game spoken about above so all in all it was a great year. I seem to remember we narrowly missed promotion that year as well.
Finished 3rd behind Cloughies Derby & palarse by 6 points I think. Home form let us down, 2 defeats & 8 draws I think it was, think away form was pretty good, about 8 wins, can't remember how many defeats
west ham when we shared with them. no 1 at upton park
Vague memories, think we won 1-0? Remember mayhem in the away terrace - Trevor Brooking trying to do a TV broadcast and us completely drowning him out with CHARLTON (amazing grace)
Not sure if we 'took' it. Certainly half and half. Charlton always had a good crew back in those days and usually gave a good account of ourselves unless we played Millwall when everyone went awol. :-)
By the way, I think that was the year Arsenal won the double. 1971? Not 100% sure about that though.
Not sure if we 'took' it. Certainly half and half. Charlton always had a good crew back in those days and usually gave a good account of ourselves unless we played Millwall when everyone went awol. :-)
By the way, I think that was the year Arsenal won the double. 1971? Not 100% sure about that though.
'68 as far as I recall, I was only a kid but half a dozen of us from Cherry Orchard travelled across London and stayed in the north bank all game ... Massive Charlton numbers
Not sure if we 'took' it. Certainly half and half. Charlton always had a good crew back in those days and usually gave a good account of ourselves unless we played Millwall when everyone went awol. :-)
By the way, I think that was the year Arsenal won the double. 1971? Not 100% sure about that though.
Rob,Thanks mate ! sounds a brilliant day by the way!
Not sure if we 'took' it. Certainly half and half. Charlton always had a good crew back in those days and usually gave a good account of ourselves unless we played Millwall when everyone went awol. :-)
By the way, I think that was the year Arsenal won the double. 1971? Not 100% sure about that though.
'68 as far as I recall, I was only a kid but half a dozen of us from Cherry Orchard travelled across London and stayed in the north bank all game ... Massive Charlton numbers
stonemuse,Cherry Orchard enough said mate in them days!i also know Middle Park boys and Correlia were to become in to the fold along with Woolwich and Welling in later days?
Tav, a lot of 'future' middle park were at highbury that day
stonemuse, a lot of my mates and older lot had told me about that day,and pals to this day!And were older Eltham lot and Yorkshire Grey and Welcome Inn and Bull Shootershill and Royal Mottingham!My first game ever was at home to spuds around about 77 and i can still remember the talk of the north bank highbury from then.The older chaps that went Charlton games back then are top brilliant fellas and always i looked up to them and loved our away days and their stories from the past.
Lot of Welling boys back in the 70's, we often met over at Danson Park planning away days. A few of the lads went on to become members of the BM from memory around 77/78, one even defected to Millwall which I found a bit disturbing. Arsenal was late January 1969.....Ive got the program still (with colour pics, very posh for those days). I read somewhere in the dim and distant that we had an estimated 16,000 at Highbury, I was quite safe sitting in the seats albeit there was a punch up close by and I remember the fights on the northbank really clearly....the preceeding game at Sellout seemed to be all Charlton, but then again I was only 8.One of my uncles was a bit of a Skin then and regularly travelled away....I remember his cheesecloth shirts, braces levis and DM's makes quite an impression on a young kid. Different world back then.
Lot of Welling boys back in the 70's, we often met over at Danson Park planning away days. A few of the lads went on to become members of the BM from memory around 77/78, one even defected to Millwall which I found a bit disturbing. Arsenal was late January 1969.....Ive got the program still (with colour pics, very posh for those days). I read somewhere in the dim and distant that we had an estimated 16,000 at Highbury, I was quite safe sitting in the seats albeit there was a punch up close by and I remember the fights on the northbank really clearly....the preceeding game at Sellout seemed to be all Charlton, but then again I was only 8.One of my uncles was a bit of a Skin then and regularly travelled away....I remember his cheesecloth shirts, braces levis and DM's makes quite an impression on a young kid. Different world back then.
Im staying with my Mum, whilst being here...We were talking the other night about my teen years and one recollection of hers was when we played Chelsea at The Valley(The bonfires game)...she said she remembers all the boys meeting round at my house, they were so many of us she remembered them sitting on the floor before she bundled us all in to a huge old American station wagon and dropped us near the ground (there were 12 of us in it) I told her what happened to the different characters during and after the game and she wasnt exactly shocked, she also still remembers me coming back from Brighton with a broken snozzle covered in blood and telling me I wasnt going to football anymore.....yeah righto Mum good plan.....
Im staying with my Mum, whilst being here...We were talking the other night about my teen years and one recollection of hers was when we played Chelsea at The Valley(The bonfires game)...she said she remembers all the boys meeting round at my house, they were so many of us she remembered them sitting on the floor before she bundled us all in to a huge old American station wagon and dropped us near the ground (there were 12 of us in it) I told her what happened to the different characters during and after the game and she wasnt exactly shocked, she also still remembers me coming back from Brighton with a broken snozzle covered in blood and telling me I wasnt going to football anymore.....yeah righto Mum good plan.....
Im staying with my Mum, whilst being here...We were talking the other night about my teen years and one recollection of hers was when we played Chelsea at The Valley(The bonfires game)...she said she remembers all the boys meeting round at my house, they were so many of us she remembered them sitting on the floor before she bundled us all in to a huge old American station wagon and dropped us near the ground (there were 12 of us in it) I told her what happened to the different characters during and after the game and she wasnt exactly shocked, she also still remembers me coming back from Brighton with a broken snozzle covered in blood and telling me I wasnt going to football anymore.....yeah righto Mum good plan.....
One of my uncles was a bit of a Skin then and regularly travelled away....I remember his cheesecloth shirts, braces levis and DM's makes quite an impression on a young kid. Different world back then.
Ahh Tel, cheesecloth shirts, remember them well, quite the trend in the Covered End for a while. Remember a bunch of us travelling from Charlton to a Gillingham game, resplendent in boots jeans and showing off new cheesecloth shirts that one of our number had 'appropriated' from a store in Woolwich ... and of course the obligatory silk scarves tied round the wrist.
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bolton in the cup
norwich st Georges day
west ham when we shared with them. no 1 at upton park.
At the old den night game we had the whole end.
most of the games against palace.
southend when curbs got sent to the stands i think it was 1-1.
There has been many more but these were when we turned out in numbers win lose or draw they were great days out.
Having read some of the responses on here Arsenal sounds brilliaint!
i will never forget back in the early 80s back on a train from Bolton some of the older lot telling me about their day at Arsenal that year!
I s it possible to to obtain any footage of this game?
Especially for you I
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Millwall sell out at new den should have been aday torember !
Not sure if we 'took' it. Certainly half and half. Charlton always had a good crew back in those days and usually gave a good account of ourselves unless we played Millwall when everyone went awol. :-)
By the way, I think that was the year Arsenal won the double. 1971? Not 100% sure about that though.
'68 as far as I recall, I was only a kid but half a dozen of us from Cherry Orchard travelled across London and stayed in the north bank all game ... Massive Charlton numbers
Ahh Tel, cheesecloth shirts, remember them well, quite the trend in the Covered End for a while. Remember a bunch of us travelling from Charlton to a Gillingham game, resplendent in boots jeans and showing off new cheesecloth shirts that one of our number had 'appropriated' from a store in Woolwich ... and of course the obligatory silk scarves tied round the wrist.