Who is it?
The shortlist has to be Millwall, Palace and possibly west ham, but considering everything, from our perspective, who is charltons no1 rival football club?
Don't know if it's actually worth a debate, but I believe every club has that no1 rival team; Built up from their location and history.
I hate millwall more than palace personally so even though they might not be, from my perspective, I consider them our biggest rivals.
Who do you think it is?
Obviously doesnt have to be on the little shortlist but probably is.
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Any decent Addick fan knows that it's Welling United and not these teams mentioned...
I'll go for Greenwich Borough F.C
crystal palace reserves
crystal palace youth
crystal palace u7s (Who Charlton play on Friday with my son playing!!) Grrrrrrrrrr
Carshalton Athletic
Croydon FC
And any more tin pot clubs who are in a 5 mile radius of the shithole they call sellout park!!!!!
Try telling that to Watford and Luton or Man Utd and Leeds who have not been in the same league for a quite a few years!
To me CP will always be our main rivals
All those youngsters who want a rival/enemy perhaps should start brushing up on thier Farsi and studying maps of Iran!
(said with tongue firmly in cheek)
the realisation that they could be our new rivals and that fuck, we really had sunk this low only really dawned on us probably in the 70's after seeing what a big game we were and still are to them, whereas we had always seen them as something more like welling that you wouldn't really ever count. like the way that west ham view orient.
but grandpa may have called it just about right.
The hate comes from insecure or inadequate people seeing others making a different choice thus leading them to doubt they have made the right decison as to which club to support. This doubt leads to them over-compensating and turns into hate for those who chose differently.
I personally have never hated or even disliked rival clubs' fans, just pitied them for not supporting the best club in the land.
Lets forget the years of misery when we played there
Lets forget the sadness I felt when John Humphries signed for them
Lets forget the day I saw us loose there on Boxing day without a keeper got frozen threatened and found my car vandalised when I returned to it (1984)
Lets forget the play off loss to them
Lets forget Dennis in the last minute
Lets forget John Fortunes goal that aided their relegation
Lets forget Ian Dowie and law suits
Lets forget Ron Noades
Lets forget Simon Jordon and the Moron quote
Lets forget the Sydenham train attack
Lets forget the "clowns" jibe on the FLS
@ing laughing now"
lets forget the delight I felt when they lost on penalties the other evening
Granpa, sorry for the rant but I am not a youngster and do see them as a rival, I cant see that changing with age
"We are rivals with Millwall and Palace in in that we are trying to attract supporters fron the same general area. I think we are winning this contest despite being in a lower division, at the moment"
Is that what you consider makes us 3 teams rivals? That we compete for support? I suspect for many of us who go regularly, not one of the 3 clubs had to compete for our support; your Dad/Grandad/Uncle/Friends supported Charlton/Millwall/Palace and you became a fan of that team.
Charlton or Palace could offer me free tickets to every game, a free ride & booze and I wouldn't take it.
I thought the rivalry is built up from hundreds/thousands of the fans of the 3 clubs all living in a similar area, growing up with banter, bragging rights, etc & wanting to get one over on eachother. Nothing to do with competing for size of support etc.
Palarse are & always will be our "rivals" in my eyes. Millwall are more like a trashy pub you wished the Council would close down...
i dont think it fair to say that rivalry is negative ,its a motivating factor ,for me (aged 55) i d say milwall and palace are our longterm rivals,and i d class palace as greater rivals ,primarily because of Selhurst days and the peroxided one .I have many freinds who support different clubs but i cant describe our rivalry as negative ,agreed our current rivals are those in the top 6