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Peter ‘Scoop’ Burrowes - RIP

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 58,956
edited June 11 in General Charlton

club just announced he’s sadly passed, aged 87

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  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,306
    RIP to a lovely sounding man. Touching tributes from both the club and Kent CCC

    https://www.charltonafc.com/news/rip-peter-scoop-burrowes

    https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/peter-burrowes-1939-2026/
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,227
    Part of the Charlton fabric for so many years. RIP Scoop
  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,448
    Remember him sorting me and my Dad out with free tickets for the East Fife away friendly many moons ago. RIP Scoop
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,867
    RIP. The voice of Charlton on LBC radio when growing up as kid in the early 80's
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,389
    RIP Scoop

    The press room will never be the same.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 17,237
    Rest in Peace, Peter. Still volunteering for the club right till the end of last season. Legendary. 
  • mistrollingin62
    mistrollingin62 Posts: 459
    Always remember his breathless and slighty angry post match report from Brisbane Road in 1978 when we scraped a 0-0 draw to avoid relegation.
    Angry because we had let players like Mike Flanagan and Colin Powell go and play for the New England bloody Tea Men when they should have been at the Valley.

    Kent CC was, I believe, his other great passion.
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 5,022
    Absolute legend of the club

    RIP Scoop
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,696
    Sad news, bless him he often used to get us a couple of press tickets for away games when we used to travel the length of the country with Kevin Nolan. 

    Another of the cornerstones of the club.

    RIP Peter. 
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 51,208
    Name synonymous with my supporting Charlton. RIP

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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,269
    What a shocker .. He’s been around the club forever. Always remember as a kid tuning into LBC to get the football scores on a Saturday afternoon when we were away from home. Peter was our roving reporter and you could hear his dulcet tones down the other end of a crackly phone line. If we were winning, he had excitement in his voice. But more often than not it was the sound of disappointment. RIP Scoop. A true Charlton legend. Signing off .. ‘This is Peter Burrows, for IRN sport at the Valley’
  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,403
    Club legend.
    He was up until recently supervising team sheet production and distribution at U21 and U18 games.
    More or less wrote the sports pages of the old Kentish Independent on his own, and a legend of live match reporting back in the day on the wireless.
    A true Charltonian, I found him easy to get along with, good for minor gossip about up and coming players. 
    I am sure there are many tales to be told about ‘scoop’. 
    The place will not seem the same without Peter, rest in peace mate.
  • RonnieMoore
    RonnieMoore Posts: 5,147
    edited June 11
    Peter on LBC doing live updates from the away games , before social media even teletext .. it was the only way you could find out the score .. his favourite phrase .. “ as I am talking there been a goal “ … then a short pause as he worked out who it was. Got to know Peter over the years especially when Charlton reserves played at Welling ..use to know everything going on at the club … plus at Oldham away on an awful
    Tuesday night he got the whole coach of supports free tickets ….. sad day RIP Peter 
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,866
     RIP Peter.

  • clive
    clive Posts: 20,444
    He was always the person i would head for at u21 games at Sparrows Lane, as he was the person handing out team sheets.
    Also i think he was the first person to report the shooting of Frank Warren, outside the Broadway Theatre Barking, when he was working for LBC Radio.
    RIP Peter
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,799
    jose said:
    Club legend.
    He was up until recently supervising team sheet production and distribution at U21 and U18 games.
    More or less wrote the sports pages of the old Kentish Independent on his own, and a legend of live match reporting back in the day on the wireless.
    A true Charltonian, I found him easy to get along with, good for minor gossip about up and coming players. 
    I am sure there are many tales to be told about ‘scoop’. 
    The place will not seem the same without Peter, rest in peace mate.
    Nice post RIP Peter.
  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,527
    RIP Scoop. An absolute legend.
  • gmantaxi
    gmantaxi Posts: 465
    RIP Scoop , a massive part of my teenage years growing up supporting the reds .
  • Tunwellsaddick
    Tunwellsaddick Posts: 2,478
    A reassuring, friendly face I nodded to regularly when we saw one another at the Valley over the years since the 50s. Very sad to hear of his passing. Never forgotten.

    RIP Peter. 
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,803
    RIP a proper Charlton man.

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  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 9,091
    Very sad.
    May Peter rest in eternal peace ❤️
  • Broadstairs_Red
    Broadstairs_Red Posts: 366
    Thought Peter died a couple of years ago, anyway i remember him from the away coaches in the late 60's / 70's -
    nobody knew more about Charlton than Peter.

    RIP.
  • StrikerFirmani
    StrikerFirmani Posts: 2,806
    Always did a great job reporting the club & good reads in the Kent paper.

    Sad news, RIP Peter. 
  • Bailey
    Bailey Posts: 3,850
    I sit behind the press box in the west stand and Peter would walk along the line of the press with the attendance figures, he looked no different to when we used to bump into him in the seventies. RIP Peter, Charlton are poorer with your loss. 
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,183
    RIP Peter.
  • WSA
    WSA Posts: 1,946
    RIP Peter
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,984
    Sad news. RIP, Peter.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,895
    Think it would be respectful to spell his name correctly in the thread title, @AFKABartram, although there is a certain irony!

    Sad news and very sudden. We have been sharing gossip for nearly four decades.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 15,137
    RIP
  • Dugdaleclass
    Dugdaleclass Posts: 613
    No doubt Peter is up there somewhere with Colin Cameron comparing the stats and weighing up who we should sign this summer. RIP

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