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Best decade for being a football fan

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,532
in General Charlton
Showing my age here but the 1970s was the time I enjoyed football the most. The pitches might have been shit but admission was cheap, loads of flair players, lots of hard tackling and plenty of characters in the game.
The haircuts were something else and we had the pleasure of standing on the terraces.
I'd love to know how the likes of 'Killer',Stan Bowles, Best, Frank Worthington, Norman Hunter, Chopper Harris etc would have coped with the modern game.

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  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    Early 90s, straight after Italia 90
    Great times for me.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,374
    No contest, the 1980's with the casual era.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    No contest, the 1980's with the casual era.

    Yep, same for me. Loved football in the 80's.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    ricky_otto said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    No contest, the 1980's with the casual era.

    Yep, same for me. Loved football in the 80's.
    There were certainly a lot of pastel colours on show
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Late 80s/early 90s for me
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,374
    ricky_otto said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    No contest, the 1980's with the casual era.

    Yep, same for me. Loved football in the 80's.
    Football then had passion.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,761
    I was born in 1983 so for me 1996 onwards to 2000
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,711
    edited February 2016
    66-82 talking general football.

    Charlton c 74-78 (especially the floodlight games) and 1997 - 2007
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    ricky_otto said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    No contest, the 1980's with the casual era.

    Yep, same for me. Loved football in the 80's.
    Football then had passion.
    Charlton had a bit of fight about them as well.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,374
    ricky_otto said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    ricky_otto said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    No contest, the 1980's with the casual era.

    Yep, same for me. Loved football in the 80's.
    Football then had passion.
    Charlton had a bit of fight about them as well.
    In those days it was generally not about who you supported, it was where you came from.

    Railway stations were never more exciting, even for us trainspotters!

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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,532
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    ricky_otto said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    ricky_otto said:

    ElfsborgAddick said:

    No contest, the 1980's with the casual era.

    Yep, same for me. Loved football in the 80's.
    Football then had passion.
    Charlton had a bit of fight about them as well.
    In those days it was generally not about who you supported, it was where you came from.

    Railway stations were never more exciting, even for us trainspotters!
    I remember in the 70s and 80s the danger of fans piling in to each other at tube stations - crowd control was none too sophisticated.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,152
    Definitely not the current one !
  • cafc4life
    cafc4life Posts: 4,662
    2030's for me, the decade Charlton end their 10 year run in the conference national and get promoted to league 2 under the management of John Still.Exciting times await us.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,848
    80s
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,532
    cafc4life said:

    2030's for me, the decade Charlton end their 10 year run in the conference national and get promoted to league 2 under the management of John Still.Exciting times await us.

    John Still will be how old by then?
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,301
    Well the 2000s were pretty special for Charlton. But the 90s were good too, post Italia 90 leaving behind the hooliganism and "casual" crap most of you lot seemed to have enjoyed... :wink:
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,152
    cafc4life said:

    2030's for me, the decade Charlton end their 10 year run in the conference national and get promoted to league 2 under the management of John Still.Exciting times await us.

    Mate, just you wait until the 2040's, FA Cup second round TWO YEARS IN A ROW !
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,074
    edited February 2016
    the 1920s
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    As an English football fan, it has to be the 1960s.

    As a Charlton fan the 2000s for me.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    1930s, mahoovie attendances, or what ever time you first started going as it's definitely more fun as a child.

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  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,011
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    1930s, mahoovie attendances, or what ever time you first started going as it's definitely more fun as a child.

    Unless you are a child now and your dad only started taking you to games a couple of years ago, in which case you may find the following of use:

    Childline Telephone No. - 0800 1111
  • Boysie
    Boysie Posts: 701
    1970s and early 1980s...
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,440
    Late 70s early 80s. In my football supporting pomp. Charlton shite most of the time so no change there then...
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,875
    What was the decade with all the crowd violence, racism and players wearing short shorts? That one.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,545
    Anything pre-1990s.
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,094
    Mid to late 70s
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,545
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

    Showing my age here but the 1970s was the time I enjoyed football the most. The pitches might have been shit but admission was cheap, loads of flair players, lots of hard tackling and plenty of characters in the game.
    The haircuts were something else and we had the pleasure of standing on the terraces.
    I'd love to know how the likes of 'Killer',Stan Bowles, Best, Frank Worthington, Norman Hunter, Chopper Harris etc would have coped with the modern game.

    Bowles, Best and Worthington would've been alright....ability alone would get them through.

    Hunter would probably be able to adapt because he was a class player as well as a thug.

    Harris wouldn't get away with it.

    Hales would be ok at Championship level but only in a team that got the ball in the box and didn't want to play through him.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,404
    It was the mid to late 90s when Sky invented football and we joined the PL from non league or whatever it was back then.

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