Anyone on here old enough to have gone to (and remembers) the old Third Division game at Saltergate back in the '80/'81 season?
I saw Stone's comments and the memories of that game (and whole season) came flooding back.
Apart from Haleseys goal from just inside their half, I still have a 'souvenir' from that game of a Derby County scarf. I believe at the time we were top of the third and Chesterfield were pushing us hard in second place. For some reason - possibly the weather - Derby's game was called off and a few of their fans decided to visit Saltergate and cause some problems in the home end. I remember watching it kick off and the OB steaming in to calm things down. They rounded up those Derby fans who hadn't been nicked and brought them round to the 'safety' of the away end.
About a hundred of them were marched around the pitch to the away end shouting 'Derby and Charlton' and were brought onto the open teraace behind the goal........... where they took a hell of a kicking from Charlton. I distinctly remember two of them jumping over the wall at the rear of the terrace down to the street below to get away - it was at least a 30 foot drop.
So come on, apart from Stone, who was there?
There were some real hairy incidents that season as we went most places in large numbers.
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You're talking 25 years ago now. I wonder just how many of those 500 still go Charlton on a regular basis. Not too many now i would of thought ?
I remember big Charlton turnouts at Huddersfield, Exeter, Newport County (that was my first day at 'proper' work and I took the afternoon off to go to the game - it was a tuesday night and we hadn't won away for about 35 matches!), Swindon, Hull City and of course the promotion game at Carlisle.
I went to one or two london and lononish away games that season and we had very big away supports.
I think LTGTR is right, Sir Bobby was manager of Preston that night
Away support was good around this time, not uncommon to get 1500 or more to most places.
It was chaos at Leeds Road that season both before and after the game - we had over 2,000 up there. They absolutely mullered us on the pitch but we went onto win 1- 0 thanks toa flukey header from Phil Walker.
Very nasty outside the ground as we walked back to the Leeds Road - a lot of us were manfully saved by B Mob returning from their white vans in the car park adjacent to the ground with all sorts of wooden and metal implements. A thrown brick broke my nose that day - I was covered in my own blood.
Oh happy days!
I think it was that season that we also had Harlow in the FA Cip and we all stood on the grass slopes. I remember that it was quite dodgy at the end of that game as well...
The Cup game against Harlow was the start of a good run for us, which included a win at Fulham in front of 17,050 (they don't get much more than that now) and getting knocked out at Portman Road, who were the 1st Division leaders at the time, in front of 30,221.
That Ippo team were fantastic at the time -
Cooper, Osman, McCall, Thyssen, Beattie, Butcher, Wark, Muhren, Mariner, Brazil and Gates.