Do your children support Charlton /Do you support the same team as your parents

oohaahmortimer

Having 4 young sons and living in essex (it's the only way) there's a small part of me worried that one of em might slope off and support someone else when they're older cos of their mates

obviously i'm trying to indoctrinate them in to all things Charlton but I don't want to disown one of them cos they support someone else (but i will! )


my old man supported fulham when he was younger , not fanatically, but when he moved to eltham became a charlton fan and therefore introduced me and the rest is history

whats your story

Addickted4life

I'm the 4th generation of Charlton from my family!!!!! So proud and I will defiantly try and keep it going for ever, so no choice for me in who I supported.

Covered End

My dad lived in North London & supported Spurs. He moved to Blackheath when he married my mum.

He took to me to Spurs a few times ( I remember Greaves, Chivers, Gilzean etc).

Then the bastard decided it was too much agg & started taking me to The Valley.

I've had a S/T since I was 10. 40 years ago.

Both my sons have been S/T holders, since the age of about 10, although as youngsters "supported" Man U & Chelsea. Never saw them live of course, unless Charlton were playing them.

Webby

I've attended Charlton with 4 generations of my family together and very much in the family blood. But living on the Isle of Wight now for a good few years my children are very much Charlton including the dog. There were a couple of wobbles when they were younger looking at Chelsea shirts etc in sports shops but I made it very clear there was only one team in our house and fortunately they stayed the course. Some thought I was very selfish as much easier to regularly get to teams to watch much nearer but I'm afraid that's the way it is .... And I think they will thank me for it one day :-)

_MrDick

Yes and Yes. No great story here. My dad was from Welling and I'm from Eltham therefore no other team to support really

LenGlover

I'm 4th generation, my daughters 5th generation and my baby grandson will hopefully be 6th generation.

However his other grandmother is a Birmingham City season ticket holder and they live up there so I have some competition!

maybe_baby

None of my children like football...to be quite honest I wouldnt want 2 of them anywhere near our club.

PL54

My son got influenced by his Uncle and supports Man U - I even took him to the Fulham Man U game last season the week after I took him to the Fulham CAFC game. In fairness though he has been forced to sit through some total tripe at The Valley before now so I can hardly blame him.

In my day I had no choice, dragged to Charlton (and more importantly The Horse & Groom) every home game from the age of about 5 onwards. Gramps was Charlton as well, not sure if it goes beyond that.

redsek

My little boy is Charlton mad and only 5. Nothing to do with me - honest.

CharltonKerry

My father was an Arsenal supporter, for some reason both me and my brother started to watch Charlton and by the age of 8 I was allowed to catch the train from Dartford and we used to stand on the east terrace must have been around late 59 or early 60. But along come all the aggro of the 70's and 80's so, I went back to supporting Dartford my first game at watling street was in '56 when I was 4.

When my boy was born I was still supporting the mighty Darts, as the boy got older we started gong together to watling street, to my disgust and his grandad delight he asked to go to Arsenal as the mighty Darts where not "proper" football. So his cousins took him, for a birthday treat he asked me to take him to Arsenal, I absolutely hated it, so a few days later I suggested going to the valley, his many years of frustration started that day, still feel sorry for him after 15 years of being a season ticket holder, just think he could seen his team win the premiership, but to be fair when we discussed it a few months ago, he said that he would never have the enjoyment of seeing a 4 nil win at chesterfield on a Tuesday night, or the greatest game of football ever at Wembley if I hadn't corrupted his youth.

North Lower Neil

My Dad's a Man Utd fan, though he's more Charlton now on account of having a season ticket for 17 years because of me!

Henry Irving

I'm 3rd generation, son is 4th and as keen if not keener than me.

addick16

3rd gen here...my grandpa supported charlton (R.I.P. Penry "Steve" Stevens), and my dad supports charlton.
my first game was during at time when Charlton played their home fixtures at Upton Park (thats all i can remember being so young) ...

croydonaddick

My dad was from Deptford and always supported Charlton- when as a kid we asked to go to football he always took us to the valley. Somehow when I was a youngster I supported Liverpool and my brother Leeds (1970s). However for live football my dad continued to take us to the valley - He always drove past Selhurst Park on the way (see my user name) and when in our innocence my brother and I said could we watch a match there he said NO thats not proper football and kept driving. When I was about 13 I remember I had all the paper cuttings of Liverpool winning one of their European cups, and the vinyl record recording of the radio commentary from that day. I was reading all the papers one day, whilst listening to the record, and suddenly looked up and wondered why on earth I supported Liverpool, and went straight out and told my dad I now supported Charlton. My brother had already seen the light and changed - my dad was so proud.

My son is completely Charlton mad. First started going when he was four when in our last prem season, so hes had a bad few years when initially it was all downhill, but stuck with them against all the jeers from his school mates who are all Spurs/utd/chelsea and sadly Palace. Hopefully god willing he will pass it on too

Karim_myBagheri

My dad got dragged to his first game when he was a kid by his older sister who was going out with someone who supported charlton. He wasn’t really into football at the time.
He then grew up and at secondary school all his mates were mainly either charlton or millwall. he went with the charlton lot.

He has three kids, two of them support charlton, me and my sister. the other supports spurs...we don’t talk to him anymore.

When and if i have kids i would want them to have a happy life, so I would advise them not to become a Charlton fan.

Oakster

I have possibly the only 5 year old in canada that can name every Charlton player including the reserves & half the youth team..some of the names are a bit wrong though - Dorian Device & Ben Hamon spring to mind....

Macronate

my dad was born in Brockley so he's got a bit of Man U/Millwall & Charlton in him.

my lad is staunch Charlton, got him to a pre-season friendly when he was about 6 and for the last 4 years he's been a S/T holder. he hates Millwall & Palace.

Proud of Bexleyheath

NorthStandUltra

My mum & dad support Chelsea, I don't get on with my folks at all but my dad took me to Selhurst Park as I nagged him to take me to any football

Norfolk_Addick

Dad supports Charlton as he grew up in Charlton and I grew up in Welling. I don't have children yet but when I do I have debated whether to encourage them to support Charlton or Norwich. To me its important to support your local team but I'd also like to take them down the valley. What you reckon?

DA9

My son & Daughter do, my dad and brothers are gooners, as was his father, my dad goes to more charlton games than the gooners as he used to live in Wolfe Crescent, less so now as he has retired to Herne Bay, Charlton are his 2nd team I suppose. My mum is Charlton, but neither her or my daughter take much interest, although my daughter did used to work behind the jump in the lib club on matchdays and is probably known to most of you although you didnt know the connection at the time.

Deadred

Yes and Yes. My late father's family came from Woolwich but his father supported Arsenal before they moved North of the river. My Dad supported Charlton for 75 years, I have followed them for 55 years and my son 28 years. My Grandson is only 18 months but he had the Charlton logo baby goodies from me as a present last xmas! My Grandfather on my mothers side was staunch Charlton and told me he had trials for them as an amateur.

mid_life_crisis

My late Dad was a staunch Charlton fan. He first took me when I was 7 and I started my son at the same age. He is now 9 and has a season ticket.

LenGlover

Norfolk_Addick said:

Dad supports Charlton as he grew up in Charlton and I grew up in Welling. I don't have children yet but when I do I have debated whether to encourage them to support Charlton or Norwich. To me its important to support your local team but I'd also like to take them down the valley. What you reckon?

I had a similar dilemma living in the depths of Kent and Gillingham being my local team.

When my oldest daughter was of an age to go to football we were in exile at Selhurst so her first games were at Gillingham as it was too difficult to get to Selhurst and back in time to look after the youngest before the wife went to work.

However once we were back at The Valley I took her and her younger sister there having said that they could choose either Charlton or Gillingham to support but that Charlton was the family team (which they knew anyway from visiting their grandfather).

Happily from my viewpoint they chose Charlton and the Sunderland play-off final sealed it plus being a wonderful first game for my youngest who has stuck with it and still comes with me when home from uni.

In conclusion if there is a "family" team then there is nothing wrong in supporting that team rather than the local side in my opinion.

floydroadfaithfull

My dad used to take me to both charlton and millwall when i was young but hes realy a daggers fan as he gree up in reed road next to the ground i ended up working in charlton for 17 years from when i left school so that sorted that out! Now the rest of the family? My misses and the two lads are all evertonians even though upper north season ticket holders.but there deserting me on the 24th to go up to goodison to watch them vs norwich so ill be watching us vs huddersfield on me own!
So not much noise from our seats that game im affraid!

Nicholas

My old man used to support Leeds when he was younger, I suppose as they were the main team back then. He started working as a tyre fitter and became friends with a Charlton fan who would take him to some matches, he fell in love and statred taking his younger brother too. He started taking me when I was around 5 and was hooked straight away, just a shame my first homes games were at Shithurst and Upton Park. I never ever wanted to support another team even though I was the only Charlton fan in both primary and Secondary school. I am now in the process of brainwashing my boy who is 18 months old. He loves seeing the badge everywhere in the house and always says Charlton, he even claps when I sing the all hate Crystal palace song to him, he absolutley loved the club shop, he ran around kissing and pointing all the Charlton badges. I live in essex too so I'm hoping Charlton will have stuck before he goes to school full of Arsenal,Spurs and West Ham.

masicat

Dad and Grandad supported Charlton. Sons support Charlton and grandson now attending. 5 generations. 1910-2012.

BIG_ROB

Not gat any kids, but me mum and dad and all me uncles and most of me cousins support Charlton. So did both me grandads

CAFCdamo

My dad used to support the Spanners and my mum Palace. I was invited to go to Charlton when I was 9 with my friend and his family, been hooked ever since. Lucky escape.

Redrobo

Dad was a Chelsea suporter and so were his family and he played for them during the war. He moved to Welling before I was born and he went to Charlton as this was now his local club. When I was 5 he started taking me and I was shocked by the number of footballers he knew. I met the one and only Bill Shankley who he played with for Luton, Joe Mercer who he played against and numerous others. The nicest by far was a certain Keith Peacock and his father Tom (a Newcastle supporter), not to mention Keith's wife Lesley.

My Dad always told me that Charlton were a special club and that there was more to being a supporter than chasing glory when the other kids at school taunted me with the results of Spurs, Arsenal etc etc.

He said you had to support your local club because they represented your community, and it would always lie with the community to drive the club forward and keep them true to their beliefs. (He quoted WHU and Liverpool at the time, but there you go.). The Valley party proved he was right and I think the new trust will continue where they left off.

To answer the question, yes I support the club my parents did, and thank God he moved to Welling.

johnny73

Dad showed no indication of which team he supported when I was a kid. Mum bought me an arsenal bag when I was 10 but I didn't like football at that stage. In 84 I started following charlton and then much later (when I had the money) started going to games (st etc). At this stage dad finally revealed he used to go to charlton games in his youth (50's and 60's). I like the fact I found my own way to it rather than being brainwashed because I probably would have rebelled and supported any team other than cafc. Have two daughters, the eldest hates football and the youngest is a work in progress.

AddickUpNorth

I'm just a freak of nature, no Charlton fans aside from me in my family though my mum's side are from London. Born in Salisbury and had already moved north by the time I made my pledge of allegiance.
My daughter has no interest at all in football which has never bothered me.