19 year old Carl Leaburn .. ((:>) .. I don't remember these but thanks for the memories .. If you know what I mean ... nice to see a CAFC team getting stuck in and showing true (Steve) Gritt
What a fantastic memory. This had gone out of my brain until I saw this video. As soon as I saw it started, I thought Liverpool go 3 up and we win 5-3. But, of course, it was 6-3. I remember being so impressed at the time. Did you pay Bruce to let in 6?
Remember watching these in my house whilst wallpapering with help from my dad and brother helping. At 3-0 down we all started to get on with the DIY, 3-1 and I sat down to watch, 3-2 and my brother down tools and at 3-3 my dad called it a day. There was no more wallpapering done for the night.
Micky Bennett got player of the tournament, sadly on the Saturday he done his knee at Sellout park.
Remember watching these in my house whilst wallpapering with help from my dad and brother helping. At 3-0 down we all started to get on with the DIY, 3-1 and I sat down to watch, 3-2 and my brother down tools and at 3-3 my dad called it a day. There was no more wallpapering done for the night.
Micky Bennett got player of the tournament, sadly on the Saturday he done his knee at Sellout park.
I seem to remember it was against QPR, we lost 1-0 and Trevor Francis Scored.
Remember it vaguely but fondly as a kid. Why did they stop?
Did sky do a version recently?
Think it was the only year, that it was played. We are reigning champions.
It had been played for numerous years before. We then won it, it got cancelled the next year, them it got played again in 1990 and were were invited back despite no longer being in the top flight. We beat Man Utd and lost to Luton
They used to have London 5 aside at wembley arena, pretty sure that we did quite well one year (may have won it?) Remember going must be 68 or 69 pretty sure we didn't do very well that year Remember in the interval they had a basketball game for guys in wheelchairs
Who could forget the great Peter Evans and the impact he had on that side.
Sorry, please remind me - what did Peter Evans do?
In a school match mid early eighties he was playing for Addey & Stanhope, he called me a "damn white peppermint raas" when I tipped his free kick over the bar
The above article mentions us and also the fact the tournament had been around for years. I had no idea, I thought it was only held twice, when we won it and a year or two later when we were invited back to defend it.
"We won it one time...we won it one tiiiime. In Manchester's G-Mex, we won it one time."
The Soccer Sixes was an indoor 6-a-side tournament that started off in 1981. At the start it was just the Midlands-based teams taking part, but after the European football ban for English clubs in 1985, and with the tournament getting a rebrand, clubs started to take it more seriously. Birmingham City, Arsenal and Spurs all won it, and in 1988 the tournament peaked, with all 21 of the top flight clubs entering a team (plus Man City from Div 2) at the NEC arena in Birmingham.
And by then most clubs were putting their first teams out, or at least a mixture of fringe players and starters (Liverpool fielded Grobbelaar, Marsh and Molby, while Forest went mostly full strength two years running, albeit with Cloughie watching from home with a glass of wine).
There were some brilliant memories from the tournaments - Coventry's David Speedie bizarrely played in goal for the night and Forest's Stuart Pearce took it typically seriously with many a crunching tackle - but for Charlton fans the tournament meant an awful lot more than most.
Although we've won the second and third tier titles and a play-off final, the 1988 Soccer Sixes trophy is the only cup competition Charlton have won in my lifetime. And the £50k prize money was crucial to us - it was the equivalent of three games' gate receipts!
Charlton played Man U at Old Trafford on the Saturday before this tournament losing 3-0 a certain Ralph Milne scored for Man U that day..Have a photo of the team that won the soccer 6 with all the autographs of the players hanging on my wall.Lennie played very well his subs over both days that was his key to winning the games.Still have the tapes from all the matches somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYffW8DknlQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWsJlGARybQ
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Peter Evans!
Wasn't it played over two nights and we had some qualifiers the night before?
So happy my Dad let me stay up late that night!
Can you imagine top league footballers today heading up to Manchester during the season to play in a six a side tournament?
we knocked Liverpool out the cup
Was a short-lived chant at the next home game
Micky Bennett got player of the tournament, sadly on the Saturday he done his knee at Sellout park.
Did sky do a version recently?
Sorry, please remind me - what did Peter Evans do?
The above article mentions us and also the fact the tournament had been around for years. I had no idea, I thought it was only held twice, when we won it and a year or two later when we were invited back to defend it.
"We won it one time...we won it one tiiiime. In Manchester's G-Mex, we won it one time."
Hope this link works...
I took the opportunity to bellow "we're going back to The Valley", not many people joined in!
It was merely a comment in terms of forgotten players.
Sorry if you were hoping for something more.
The Soccer Sixes was an indoor 6-a-side tournament that started off in 1981. At the start it was just the Midlands-based teams taking part, but after the European football ban for English clubs in 1985, and with the tournament getting a rebrand, clubs started to take it more seriously. Birmingham City, Arsenal and Spurs all won it, and in 1988 the tournament peaked, with all 21 of the top flight clubs entering a team (plus Man City from Div 2) at the NEC arena in Birmingham.
And by then most clubs were putting their first teams out, or at least a mixture of fringe players and starters (Liverpool fielded Grobbelaar, Marsh and Molby, while Forest went mostly full strength two years running, albeit with Cloughie watching from home with a glass of wine).
There were some brilliant memories from the tournaments - Coventry's David Speedie bizarrely played in goal for the night and Forest's Stuart Pearce took it typically seriously with many a crunching tackle - but for Charlton fans the tournament meant an awful lot more than most.
Although we've won the second and third tier titles and a play-off final, the 1988 Soccer Sixes trophy is the only cup competition Charlton have won in my lifetime. And the £50k prize money was crucial to us - it was the equivalent of three games' gate receipts!