25/10/86
Hope you lot out there realised the significance of the date whilst you were preparing for or watching the Bolton game. I knew we wouldn't lose.
I still remember it now.
One side of my crazed double personality remembers being put through by Walshy and cooly tucking it past the keeper. The part of me in reality remembers checking with my brothers if it was alright to go down the front as I couldn't see very well. I got a place right there leaning against the barrier. It was raining and I was almost getting wet as the roof only just went out far enough.There was a great atmosphere in the ground - remember Wham had a very good team back then and despite winning our previous three games it seemed a tall order. I was half thinking of my new birthday presents and as the whistle blew and I was putting on my new gloves I looked up to see jimmy jimmy jimmy jimmy scoring. Pure bliss - the glory on Monday morning with the Whams at school. Brilliant! I had a great season.
What if it's raining tomorrow and another 14 year old Charlton fan is down the front putting on his new birthday gloves in the rain who secretly believes he's a centre forward called jimmy?
Forgetting that, does anyone else have any memories of my superb historic 9 second goal?
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Wasn't the 9 second goal from their kick-off too?
Yep, WH kicked off, and whoever it was then passed the ball back to George Parris (Parrish?) who didn't seem to be expecting it, Rob Lee I think it was intercepted and fed it through, I can't remember if Walsh had a touch on it or not but Melrose scored from the edge of the area. Then there was a slight pause before the cheering kicked in, or there was from me, was the goal offside, was it a foul kick-off..everything had happened so quickly and the West Ham players hadn't moved, so I thought there must have been a foul somewhere, before I realised it was legit.
Great day, I remember Walsh crashing a shot on to the crossbar a few minutes later before scoring, West Ham pulling a goal back before half time (Mark Ward?) and then John Pearson being put through in the second half, beating the off side trap and scoring. From my position - standing at the back of the terrace I couldn't see the goal so only knew he'd scored when he turned to celebrate. I think his only goal for Charlton in the first division after being top scorer the season before.
I got the video for that game from West Ham. Alvin Martin was doing the co-commentary as he was out injured at the time and he had been going on about how "Charlton are likely to sit back and try to soak up the early pressure". They kick off, we score after 9 seconds and the commentator goes "well what happened there Alvin" - and the poor fella couldn't talk for aboput 5 seconds, eventually coming up with "it's hard to believe".
Main thing I remember from being at the game myself is when the copper lost his hat it it was thrown around the away end! Cracking atmosphere that day. "Charlton are back, Charlton are back, hello, hello!!!"
I remember us singing that because I remember having never heard it before. Let's hope we can re-introduce it this season!
It was Walsh who intercepted not Robert Lee. Only me and Walshy touched the ball.
Also, it was you who hit the bar from outside the area after about 10 minutes, not Walshie as someone psted earlier.
I stand (or sit) corrected then..but I could swear it was Walsh - (left hand side of the box). But what do I know. I'd had a few beers before KO and it was 20 years ago. If you've seen the video then I bow to that, and I'll add the number of times I thought that so and so played a brilliant through ball, only to watch the highlights and realise it was actually another player suggest that I have form in identifying the wrong player so you may well be right.
But nevertheless I would put money on it being Rob Lee, not Walsh, that provided the through ball to Jimmy Melrose.
Oh no, and there was I thinking everyone on the internet was exactly who they claimed to be. Damn you for shattering my illusions!
NO, i am jim melrose!
And before any body else says it I am not Bobby Moore!
I watched the video of the match as it was the 30th anniversary of the match. As it began I had the funny idea to look up the name of the mascot and I found him on Facebook. He was amazed that I had the video and he said that he'd never seen it.
So I sent him the clip of him as mascot before the match.
He replied saying: 'on that clip of me running off the pitch I was running up the tunnel where my dad met me, no longer with me and brought a tear watching that'
' I recorded the clips you put on and posted them up on my wall , they came out alright.
I can't believe that I never posted that on here but mostly that that was four years ago already.
34 years today since the big day.
Ooh jimmy Jimmy
Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Melrose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the first thread on the subject.
I seem to recall Walsh hit the bar after a couple of minutes as well.