There probably is an objectively worst Charlton game ever simply because of the scoreline, but we always have our own personal awful Charlton games. It could be because you made a long away game journey on a Tuesday night only to see us get tanked, a home cup game where we lost to a team in a league below us in a torrid showing, the team not turning up against a local rival (lots of those!) you get the idea....
For me it was losing 0-5 to Watford away in Jan 2015. We let go of our manager days previously and just looked terrible, I left after they scored their fourth. It was one of those false "I dont think things can get any worse..." feelings, but as we know from recent seasons, there's always a "worse" for Charlton to plummet to.
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Oh and Southampton away, at the old ground, behind a floodlight pylon on another freezing night where I think we lost by three.
I have to stop now I thought I had deleted these painful memories.. bugger! more pylon obscured memories, at the Den, this time and another shocking performance oh and yet another pylon at Gillingham!! its all too much.
Nurse! the medication please!! You barstard Trev!😩 oh the pain! the agony!!
1-0 home defeat in the League Cup quarter final to Wycombe in 06/07.
But when all is said and done, there are plenty of contenders really!!
We also lost 3-0 to Brighton in a Full Members Cup game I think, on a freezing night that was very cold to any extremity! That was poor and a long trip home trying to warm up.
At home, the Leicester drubbing (5-0) hurt for a long time, as did that Sheffield United game but at least it saw the end of Pardew...
This was at the beginning of the Roland era and a foretaste of what was to come, including our current predicament!
Loads of other shit games over the years but the latest one for me was the Orient away match
We did have a meaningful chance though, Callum Harriott somehow missed in the first half when it was easier to score.
But the thread is about the shit so the shit I will delve into
Getting done in the relegation season 5-1 by Tottenham. I sat in a catatonic state through the second half, considering we clawed it to 2-1 by half time and always had a decent record against them I felt a totally false confidence we might squeeze a point. How wrong I was. Tottenham has been the scene of some brilliant days supporting charlton for me and then bookends with this horror show. I didnt think I'd see a worse performance from a Charlton side. How wrong I was.
Nothing comes close to the 4 nil away at Millwall. Nothing. I will take the let downs of operation Riverside and the 2014 capitulation but nothing can forgive the performance that day. Nil nil at half time to a disaster of a second half and worst of all I felt the players allowed themselves to be intimidated by those pussies. Also had the joy of being locked in after the game with the police proving two tier policing is a thing by going after the last demographic they can get away with cracking the heads of
Closely followed by last season's defeat at Newport County in the Carabao. (Whoever decided to play in a black strip for a match at a ground with inadequate floodlights on an evening when it was pissing down with rain should have been shot.)
I think the final score was 7.1
We tried to leave at HT but old bill wouldn't let us out.
We had to suffer the entire 90 minutes of absolute shite.