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Dinosaurs at Charlton

Taken from the programme for our home game vs West Ham in 1979. Please tell me it happened (30 mins !!) ?

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  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,701
    Read the headline and thought Ben Watson was back.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,856
    I seem to remember from a previous thread that one was bundled over by a pitch invader that posts on here. There is photographic evidence.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,455
    It did happen & the most memorable bit about it was when somebody ran onto the pitch & attacked one of the dinosaurs which led to a chase across the pitch from a couple of policeman.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,922
    Most of them post on the climate chamge thread! ;)
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    It definitely happened....it is one of my earliest memories 
  • McCartney
    McCartney Posts: 390
    I thought it was the last game of the 75-76 season against Bolton. I remember the poor old dinosaur couldn't get up and I was quite upset. I'm still a bit traumatised 49 years later.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    The good old days before risk assessments and all that bollocks 
  • WRICURKINCAM
    WRICURKINCAM Posts: 327
    I had forgotten all about that. Now vividly recalled. Tilted over on side with legs flayling. Thanks so much usedtobegood. A newly wed living in Griffin Road, Plumstead at the time, I can recall Hales vs Flanagan handbags, and a superb Guy Fawkes firework display at the Valley. The good old days. Happy times when you could buy a decent house for £10,500 and afford the cost of living. Enter Thatcher, stage right.....
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,042
    clive said:
    It did happen & the most memorable bit about it was when somebody ran onto the pitch & attacked one of the dinosaurs which led to a chase across the pitch from a couple of policeman.

    Then we had the Sumo wrestlers for the Monday Night Football when Sky first started.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    60 million years ago, there were dinosaurs located at equivalent earth surface of the valley. 

    A Tyrannosaurus Rex was probably eating the remains of a stegosaurus right by the pitch invasion remains of the sofa.