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Real Madrid v Charlton Athletic 24 April 1955

Henry IrvingHenry Irving
in General Charlton
Thanks to @cafcfacts for the reminder.

65 years ago Real paid Charlton to come out and play them!

Some stuff we have in the museum on it



The History of Charlton in 23 Objects https://cafcmuseum.net/uncategorized/the-history-of-charlton-athletic-in-23-objects/

The reverse of that ticket



The pennant Real gave to us.  We're not sure if we gave a gift to them.  We know we did when we played Benfica in 1947




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    se9addickse9addick
    This would have been the same time that Di Stéfano played for Real Madrid, wonder if he played in this match? 
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    Off_itOff_it
    AFKABartram said:
    So after a trip to the museum today my son just told me this story that @Henry Irving told him while I was elsewhere with my other boy (which I never knew). He was amazed we played 3 games in 4 days!

    He remembered the year, the teams and all the details. If you could him a story about doing homework and tidying rooms next time Henners that would be great…
    Did you have to go after your other son after he ran off in tears saying, "Daddy, please make the boring man stop talking"?
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    AddicksAddictAddicksAddict
    Now we just need Thomas's (pipe)dream to come true and we'll have a chance of playing Real every year.
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    AddicksAddictAddicksAddict
    AFKABartram said:
    So after a trip to the museum today my son just told me this story that @Henry Irving told him while I was elsewhere with my other boy (which I never knew). He was amazed we played 3 games in 4 days!

    He remembered the year, the teams and all the details. If you could him a story about doing homework and tidying rooms next time Henners that would be great…
    I remember the season we almost went up, losing out the Palace for second place behind Derby, we played Good Friday, the day after, and Easter Monday.  Beat Cardiff 4-1, Middlesborough 2-0, can't recall the other result.
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    Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    AddicksAddict said:
    AFKABartram said:
    So after a trip to the museum today my son just told me this story that @Henry Irving told him while I was elsewhere with my other boy (which I never knew). He was amazed we played 3 games in 4 days!

    He remembered the year, the teams and all the details. If you could him a story about doing homework and tidying rooms next time Henners that would be great…
    I remember the season we almost went up, losing out the Palace for second place behind Derby, we played Good Friday, the day after, and Easter Monday.  Beat Cardiff 4-1, Middlesborough 2-0, can't recall the other result.
    That happened nearly every Easter.

    Difference here is we flew overnight to Spain
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    MametzMametz
    AddicksAddict said:
    AFKABartram said:
    So after a trip to the museum today my son just told me this story that @Henry Irving told him while I was elsewhere with my other boy (which I never knew). He was amazed we played 3 games in 4 days!

    He remembered the year, the teams and all the details. If you could him a story about doing homework and tidying rooms next time Henners that would be great…
    I remember the season we almost went up, losing out the Palace for second place behind Derby, we played Good Friday, the day after, and Easter Monday.  Beat Cardiff 4-1, Middlesborough 2-0, can't recall the other result.
    We drew 0-0 at Birmingham, 68/69 season.

    We still had genuine hopes of promotion at the time but Palace had games in hand and won most of them to get the second place quite comfortably.
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    charltonbobcharltonbob
    Mametz said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    AFKABartram said:
    So after a trip to the museum today my son just told me this story that @Henry Irving told him while I was elsewhere with my other boy (which I never knew). He was amazed we played 3 games in 4 days!

    He remembered the year, the teams and all the details. If you could him a story about doing homework and tidying rooms next time Henners that would be great…
    I remember the season we almost went up, losing out the Palace for second place behind Derby, we played Good Friday, the day after, and Easter Monday.  Beat Cardiff 4-1, Middlesborough 2-0, can't recall the other result.
    We drew 0-0 at Birmingham, 68/69 season.

    We still had genuine hopes of promotion at the time but Palace had games in hand and won most of them to get the second place quite comfortably.
    We drew far too many games
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    jimmymelrosejimmymelrose
    Surely it was a mistake, wasn't it?
    It sounds great from an anecdotally historical perspective, but surely it hampered a real possibility of promotion to the top division and thus changing Charlton Athletic history more in our favour.

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    Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    jimmymelrose said:
    Surely it was a mistake, wasn't it?
    It sounds great from an anecdotally historical perspective, but surely it hampered a real possibility of promotion to the top division and thus changing Charlton Athletic history more in our favour.

    ??
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    Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    Pennant still on display tomorrow (Friday) from 11 to 2.30 and on Saturday from 11 to 1.00 

    For @jimmymelrose

    Playing Real Madrid didn't stop us getting promoted in 1969 as we played them in 1955 when we were already a Division 1 side.
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    Henry IrvingHenry Irving


    @AFKABartram He's D's next  history lesson



    but only when he's cleaned his room and finished his other homework
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    AcabAcab
    Mametz said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    AFKABartram said:
    So after a trip to the museum today my son just told me this story that @Henry Irving told him while I was elsewhere with my other boy (which I never knew). He was amazed we played 3 games in 4 days!

    He remembered the year, the teams and all the details. If you could him a story about doing homework and tidying rooms next time Henners that would be great…
    I remember the season we almost went up, losing out the Palace for second place behind Derby, we played Good Friday, the day after, and Easter Monday.  Beat Cardiff 4-1, Middlesborough 2-0, can't recall the other result.
    We drew 0-0 at Birmingham, 68/69 season.

    We still had genuine hopes of promotion at the time but Palace had games in hand and won most of them to get the second place quite comfortably.
    My first away game outside London.
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    CharltonMadridCharltonMadrid
    There's a very small group of us Charlton fans here in Madrid! :)
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    jimmymelrosejimmymelrose
    Henry Irving said:
    Pennant still on display tomorrow (Friday) from 11 to 2.30 and on Saturday from 11 to 1.00 

    For @jimmymelrose

    Playing Real Madrid didn't stop us getting promoted in 1969 as we played them in 1955 when we were already a Division 1 side.
    Ah, yes, sorry. I got confused as people were talking about the 68-69 season.
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    Henry IrvingHenry Irving
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    The Red RobinThe Red Robin
    Amazing. I didn’t know this.
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    se9addickse9addick
    Wonder how many Charlton fans “jibbed in” without a ticket?! 
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    jonseventyfivejonseventyfive
    Did VAR help us out too.
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    se9addickse9addick
    jonseventyfive said:
    Did VAR help us out too.
    Yeah, we only lost 99-0 after they had their hundredth ruled out!
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    Dave RuddDave Rudd
    edited May 2022
    "Jolly good, Madrid.  Continue to play like that and you should find yourselves Champions of Europe on a number of occasions."

    "Us?  Oh, we'll be fine.  Why, in the next 60 years or so we should reinforce our position as one of the World's great Clubs.  I mean ... it's not like we're going to be in the Third Division any time soon."

    :-)
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    CharltonAthMuseumCharltonAthMuseum
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    Chris_from_SidcupChris_from_Sidcup
    Never knew this, pretty impressive we only lost 5-3 to the side that won La Liga that season and then dominated European football for years. And after playing the day before and traveling overnight.
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    se9addickse9addick
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Never knew this, pretty impressive we only lost 5-3 to the side that won La Liga that season and then dominated European football for years. And after playing the day before and traveling overnight.
    They probably only put a team out for the last 10 mins! 
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    CAFCTrevCAFCTrev
    Can we use the Millwall trick of counting the time we didn't play each other to be part of an unbeaten run against them? So we are unbeaten against Real Madrid in 65 years?
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