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The first Charlton Athletic match I attended.....

Miserableoldgit
Miserableoldgit Posts: 22,193
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56 years ago tomorrow.

2~2 draw.

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  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,597
    Fabulous effort and with the programme 👏 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 33,004
    1963, can't recall v who or the score t b h .. Roy Matthews scored with a diving header
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,889
    edited November 6
    Wish I had a programme from my first game....haven't got a clue when I first went other then it was around 70-71.
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,792
    Mine was Easter Monday in 1977 v Chelsea. I was 9 and Chelsea fans kicked off massively. We won 4-0 I think. I was actually a Chelsea fan as my Grandad bought me the kit for Christmas. Begged my Dad to take me to this game. Said after he’d never take me to a Chelsea game ever again but we could go to the Valley. Gave up on Chelsea shortly after.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,868
    Won 5-2

  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,756
    31/08/1965, vs Plymouth Argyle.
    1-1. 61 years ago. 

  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,969
    1966 was the year. 
    Not got a clue who we played or the score. 

    60 years later and my memory is as shit now as it was then.

    But I consider myself to be very lucky to have chosen Charlton as my club as im still going with life long friends I met back in the 60s 

    My children and grandchildren are now having to go through the same process. 

    Long may it last 

    Charlton till I die.
  • ProperCharlton
    ProperCharlton Posts: 2,584
    March 31st 2007 vs Wigan Athletic. Darren Bent scored a late penalty in a 1-0 win. I was 13 and went with mates from school. At least I can say I got to see us in the PL!
  • Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch
    Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch Posts: 2,395
    Liverpool (H) - Dec 1986 - in the Arthur Wait stand at Selhurst - 0-0. Hooked from there on.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,720
    Nov 1982. 5-1 home defeat to Rotherham, so an ideal introduction to supporting Charlton. I was 11, so absolutely loved it. I could not believe what a football match looked like in real life. Then I loved watching my younger daughter have the same reaction. Unfortunately for her that was the game when we thrashed Plymouth 5-1 under Garner so she got completely the wrong impression. 

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  • Ferryman
    Ferryman Posts: 3,037
    October 1978 beat Newcastle 4-1 after going a goal down. Laurie Madden also put a penalty into an empty Jimmy Seed stand which was a building site as they were putting seats in.
  • DennisBooth
    DennisBooth Posts: 425
    The start of the 1961-62 season, Wakeham, Sewell, Hinton, Glover etc. I can’t remember who it was against as I was only seven.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,853
    Can't remember it
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,720
    edited November 6
    Baldybonce said:
    Can't remember it
    Why were we playing Spartak on a Monday night in November?
    Maybe they knew a Russian style winter was on the way. 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 32,498
    Uboat said:
    Baldybonce said:
    Can't remember it
    Why were we playing Spartak on a Monday night in November?
    Maybe they knew a Russian style winter was on the way. 
    The Russian style winter was the season before 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,720
    LenGlover said:
    Uboat said:
    Baldybonce said:
    Can't remember it
    Why were we playing Spartak on a Monday night in November?
    Maybe they knew a Russian style winter was on the way. 
    The Russian style winter was the season before 
    Of course. To be fair, I wasn’t there. 
  • charltonnick
    charltonnick Posts: 3,169
    Ferryman said:
    October 1978 beat Newcastle 4-1 after going a goal down. Laurie Madden also put a penalty into an empty Jimmy Seed stand which was a building site as they were putting seats in.
    I'm sure the south stand work came a couple of years later in about 1980. I remember the penalty well , it would have hit the JS stand roof.
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 29,147
    6th Janyary 1968 V Millwall, baptism of fire there, had nothing to do so went with some Charlton supporting mates and sorry to say, as I had no previous history of Charlton, thought i'd support the scum...🤮.
    Well Charlton won 1-0, can't remember the goal scorer, anyway, I went the following week V QPR, and we had a 3-3 draw, from then on my fate was sealed, I was an Addick...🙄
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 32,498
    My first match was meant to be the3rd round  FA Cup match against Cardiff in January 1963. However because of the months of snow that winter the game was postponed.

    Therefore my first game was later that season and was either Plymouth at home won 6-3 or Leeds at home lost 2-1. I remember both games but cannot the order that they were played being very young at that time.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,720
    LenGlover said:
    My first match was meant to be the3rd round  FA Cup match against Cardiff in January 1963. However because of the months of snow that winter the game was postponed.

    Therefore my first game was later that season and was either Plymouth at home won 6-3 or Leeds at home lost 2-1. I remember both games but cannot the order that they were played being very young at that time.
    Well I can tell you Plymouth was in March and Leeds was in April. 

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  • Ferryman
    Ferryman Posts: 3,037
    charltonnick said:
    Ferryman said:
    October 1978 beat Newcastle 4-1 after going a goal down. Laurie Madden also put a penalty into an empty Jimmy Seed stand which was a building site as they were putting seats in.
    I'm sure the south stand work came a couple of years later in about 1980. I remember the penalty well , it would have hit the JS stand roof.
    You might be right come to think of it. To confirm I'll have to pop down to Finches in Forest Hill for the video!

    Another memory was Newcastle having Peter Whithe up front. I was surprised as he'd starred for Forest in the top flight previously, and of course went on to win the European Cup with Villa.
  • Oakster2
    Oakster2 Posts: 377
    Brighton 7 Charlton 0
    October 1983

    Off to a flyer there!
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 22,193
    Oakster2 said:
    Brighton 7 Charlton 0
    October 1983

    Off to a flyer there!
    Hectic weekend, went to Siouxsie And The Banshees on the Friday night at The Royal Albert Hall, down to Brighton for the game next morning, back to TRAH for the 2nd evening of The Banshees after (both nights recorded for the Nocturne Album).

    Struggle to do 1 of these things in a week now.....
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 15,226
    I'm almost positive it was 08/02/2008. I know it was against Palace, and we won 2-0 with two goals from Luke Varney. I was hooked.
  • Oakster2
    Oakster2 Posts: 377
    12 months later we beat them 5-3 down there! Imagine scoring 5 goals in a game, fanciful stuff
  • RoanRedNY
    RoanRedNY Posts: 1,389
    Cardiff City at the Valley, 4th April 1969.  4-1
    2nd game Charlton 4-0 Blackburn 15th April 1969.

    been mainly downhill since………
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,631
    edited November 6
    I think the spanners at The Valley in April '77.

    I definitely went to the Chelsea game 3 days later for the 4-0
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,167
    2-0 win over Hereford on my 6th birthday in 1974.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,915
    edited November 6
    Can't remember the year or opponent with any accuracy.

    All I remember was screaming "well done Dunn", our goalkeeper in residence, much to my father and my little brothers disdain.


  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,471
    Simonsen’s debut v Boro 1982

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