Tuesday 17th February 1976 Charlton Athletic 3 (1) (Hales 32,46,90) Fulham 2 (0) (Mullery 47,52) The Valley Att: 11,551.
Charlton: Tutt, Penfold, Warman, Hunt, Giles, Curtis, Powell, Hales, Hope, Peacock, T Young, Unused sub: Bowman.
Fulham: Mellor, James, Strong, Mullery, Lacy, Moore, Lloyd, Conway, Busby, Slough, Barrett. Unused sub: Mitchell.
Referee: P. Reeves (Leicester)
Derek Hales scored his 50th career goal (and his 48th and 49th) in this game.
It was the last time many Charlton fans saw Graham Tutt play for Charlton. Four days after this game he suffered horific facial injuries due to being kicked in the face by Sunderlands Tom Finney at Roker Park which forced him to retire from pro football.
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when it rained. The steam coming off the players shirts as they waited for a corner to be delivered in front of us.
The waft of beer and fags drifting up to the back of 'The right side'. A few choruses of "The famous Tottenham Hotspur
went to Rome to see the Pope" at half time in the bar under the covered end and back up to watch the second half still
clutching a light and bitter. Charlton 2 up and look like they've thrown it away.
As some of the East Terrace begin to drift away, Killer picks the ball up on the edge of the box with his back to goal,
two defenders close behind him. He spins and knocks the ball past one of them, wrestling him to the ground and just as
the second defender thinks he's got the ball, Killer stretches out his leg and stabs the ball past the despairing
keeper. The covered end erupts, Killer gets to his feet and clenches his fist in front of us to salute his hat-trick.
KIIIILLER......KIIIILLER.......KIIILLER
WONDERFULL
nb I was at the game but don't remember any of the goals, although Killer scored a fair few like the one described above.
Appologies to Steve Bridge for robbing his pic below.
H&A - love these posts mate...
I do remember how we let a 2-0 lead slip and the frustration we all felt as Fulham were suddenly commanding and threatening to over run us. Even as we were pushed back we were still dangerous on the break, particularly through Paddy Powell on the right wing.
I liked Paddy - not the fastest winger but tricky and difficult to dispossess, great crossing ability and famed for cutting inside and firing thunderbolts from 25 yards. To think we picked him up at the age of 25, from non- League football for £25,000.
Nice bloke, too, very friendly and chatty with supporters. Quite good at cutting grass these days. ;-)
That last minute Halesy goal was particularly satisfying as not only had Fulham looked the most likely team to win but Bobby Moore had been goading him, trying to trigger Killer's short fuse temper and get him sent off.
Halesy had cut just inside the box on the left and as he was challenged, let fly from 15 yards.
As Stone said in his thread, that winning goal brought the house down and Bobby Moore stood there with hands on hips shaking his head.
I gave a few anecdotes of young keeper Buster Tutt's horrific injury - and Charlton players subsequent retribution on Tom Finney, in a previous Home & Away thread a few weeks ago.
As for Bobby Moore, I was too young really to remember his Hamsters days. Still I tell my kids I saw him play live, that was good enough for me
Yeah, I went to the away game as well Badge, my main memory was walking back to my car and having to duck as Fulham nutters were lobbing milk bottles in our direction. The ground was a sh*t hole then and guess what, its still a sh*t hole now. Happy days eh!
Remember coming home all excited about Killer's last gasp winner.
I thought he broke away from the half way line, running towards the Away end and smashed home a low shot from the edge of the area.
Great goal in my mind.
God I loved Killer, he'll always be my all time favourite.
I think Graham went to Roger Manwood Secondary School in Forest Hill, and used to work with my old man during the school hols in a shipping company in Peckham. I remember the old man telling me he was having a trial at QPR, next thing he's at Charlton in the first team, it was that quick. So he was the product of the old trial system.
The injury was a tragedy. But he's done well for himself in the States.
My Dad used to teach at Roger Manwood during the time that Graham Tutt was there. I think David Rocastle might have gone there too.
My Dad has some "interesting" stories from his time there. One time he was asking the kids what they did in the evenings, and one said "I go out driving with my Dad and he tries to run over n****rs".
The Implication of injury were profound for Graham Tutt, the Charlton Athletic goalkeeper who was forced to retire after a kick in the face at the age of 20:
“It’s impossible to erase from my memory the moment of impact and pain when the boot of…made contact with my face at full force. The physical and mental scars of the accident will be with me for the rest if my life…I reached the ball at the split second that…was poised to strike it. His boot whacked me in the face…I couldn’t hear anything. Everything was hazy and strange.
‘He’s kicked my eye out’ was the immediate thought that ran through my mind. There was also a great deal of blood spurting from my nose and more blood coming from my cheek. My eyelid was split as well. But the most frightening thought was that I had lost an eye”.
In a long and detailed account of the post-trauma events, Tutt did not indicate that his psychological ‘scars’ were appreciated by those involved in the treatment. In fact, when Tutt reached the dressing room, the manager’s reaction was hardly sensitive:
” By this time both my eyes were closed and I was coughing blood, as he said to me,’Can you go on?”
That crackling atmosphere......the smell of beer, and onions, a bit of mist around the floodlights and that air that something special just might happen.....long gone and difficult I would imagine for the younger fans to appreciate.....The Valley was "Earthy" back then.
The sad thing is I can picture both the game and Tutty like it was yesterday......nice memories but tinged with sadness when the full extent of Tutts injuries began to unfold
On the other hand I remember the fat Fulham pleb giving it some on the London bound platform with his mates...thought he was untouchable until he looked behind him.....
'Earthy' ... great way to describe it Tel.
Thought you were describing Off It for a minute :-)
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