10th August 1968 Charlton Athletic 3 (1) (Peacock 2, Treacy 49, Gregory 75) Millwall 4 (2) (Conlon 13, Possee 30, 51, Weller 48). The Valley att: 26,912.
Charlton: Wright, Curtis, Burkett, Campbell, Went, Reeves, Hince, Tees, Treacy, Gregory, Peacock. Unused sub: Kinsey.
Millwall: King, Gilchrist, Cripps, Jones, Kitchener, Burnett, Possee, Weller (Dunphy 83), Conlon, Jacks, Neil.
Referee: L Callaghan (Merthyr Tydfil)
Admission prices for this season: Terrace Adults 5/- (25p) Children 2/- (10p). Season ticket was £4 4shillings (£4.20 for you young 'uns)
I have typed up the actuall newspaper cutting from The Sunday Express (I think) below. How writing styles and phrases have changed! (and no the official attendance didn't match the report!)
CHARLTON GO DOWN IN 7-GOAL THRILLER
By Sydney Spicer
Charlton 3 Millwall 4
Seven goals and twice as many near misses spelled out rollicking entertainment for 27,504 fans at Charlton, where spills and bruising tackles were frequent but mostly given and taken without rancour.
The first goal came in just over two minutes when Matt Tees headed goalwards a free kick by Gregory and Peacock volleyed the ball into the net.
Millwalls attack first came into the picture with a 14th minute equaliser when, because of slack defence, Billy McNeil’s cross was headed home by Bryan Conlon.
From a corner, Possee, unchallenged, was allowed to glance Weller’s swerving kick into the far corner of the net to put Millwall in the lead.
The second half opened with swift and dramatic attack and counter attack and brought three goals in five minutes.
When Burnett slipped the ball back into Weller’s path, the Millwall forward hit it first time into the top corner of the net. A minute later, Ray Tracey ran in Charlton’s second goal after Tees had breasted down Bob Curtis’s free kick.
Then a Wellar corner was headed down by Barry Kitchener and Possee swept in his sides fourth.
When it seemed that Charlton had shot there bolt, Burnett set up the finest move in the match. He worked through and made a perfect pass to Possee. The Millwall winger smartly beat his man and aimed a shot which had Charlie Wright hopelessly beaten, but Curtis appeared from nowhere to head clear.
After Gregory had headed home a goal for Charlton, Weller was carried off with a strained ankle and Eamon Dunphy substituted.
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Almost right from the start, we were ahead and the game just fizzed along end to end with chances for both sides before Millwall levelled. The sun beat down yet there was no let up in the pace of the game. In those days, this was THE local derby, after a sequence of 0-0 draws, played in hugely competitive spirit.
We might have lost, but both teams had played a cracking game of football.
The next match, if I remember was a midweek night 3-2 win at Bury (I might be wrong - long time ago now) and we were on our way to a brilliant season, only just missing promotion to......Palace, promoted along with Brian Clough's Derby County champions skippered by the legendary Dave Mackay.
Though we did knock Palace out of the FA Cup at Sh!thurst before getting knocked out by Arsenal in a tight game at Highbury in front of 55,000.
Sorry, I got carried away....(!)
I'll have to look for it one day.
I was only a kid then but, Jeez, almost 40 years ago. Scary that life goes so quickly........
Pretty sure it was sixpence for a programme and 2 bob to get in.
Bury away we won Harry Gregory pen and Bob Curtis... in the last minute big Bob.
As my mum would say 'It's later than you think'. Only seems like yesterday that I was celebrating my 21st. I'll be 48 this year. Indeed, it's very scary.
48, ValleyMac? You're just a mere stripling of a lad. ;-)
I was 52 in May - but it didn't stop me playing at The Valley for Charlton Unathletic v Pardews Porkers!
Were you playing/there?
Alex, there had been a sequence of three or four 0-0 draws but broken in January 68 when we beat Millwall 1-0 at The Valley with a great Alan Campbell effort, in front of a nearly 30,000 crowd.
It was a dreary grey day and a dreary dull match. One newspaper report described it 'as having all the fascination of watching workman dig the road.'
Maybe you remember that one too?
But we still beat them that time - about the only victory over Millwall during 20 years or more.
Of all the teams we would have loved to beat, Millwall were certainly our jinx side then.
Oggy...No I couldn't make it. I had other commitments that day. Mind you, no amount of tea in China would have got me playing in that match seeing as I can barely walk let alone run. It's the injuries, you see. Old war wound etc
Mum used to give us 5 bob - as I recall that was 2 bob to get in; 1/6d return train from Abbey Wood; tanner for a programme; six a bag of nuts and sixpence spare for crisps/Lemonade whatever!
Seems crazy now, I would never have let my Son go at that age.
Used to go to the Den too, usually scared the freaking shite out of me!
I then went to the home game against Birmingham, which we won 3-1 (including a Keith Peacock header, and that was it. Happy days.
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It did turn out to be a great season, as @Oggy Red said, the season I started going regularly on my own with mates, including away games.
After this game we went on a 10 game unbeaten run and went top of the league. Promotion to the top division seemed not only possible that year but probable especially after we had beaten Derby in January. As others have said, too many draws scuppered us in the end. Anyway, throw in knocking Palace out of the cup and a 4th round tie at Highbury in front of nearly 60,000, it was a memorable season.
Almost as bad as mine