Just saw the thread about the 1987 youth cup final team and the name Mark Tivey made me smile (he was supposedly our wonder winger of the era I believe)
I remember even then - when I was 10 or 11 years old, I was consumed with all things Charlton. I read every report I could find...i would hype up our younger players. At school me and a mate used to write down the squad names and work out their values in comparison to other clubs in our division (sad..I know)
I read everything I can find about Charlton....every website. I constantly big them up to my work colleages (in a completely biased way) to the point that all of my colleagues now know a bit about Charlton and even look out for our results (and take the piss when we lose)
I have single handedly converted at least 5 people to become full time Addicks
But when I look around I just see a bunch of people who "support" Chelski / Man U / Arsenal / Liverpool and yet never talk about their team like I do. They hardly know who they are playing that week.
Am I the only one who is like this? or am I in good company.
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Back in 1987 though there were no forums like this, no club websites etc and i can imagine the only outlets for information would be the programme, local press now and again and possibly fanzines.
How times have changed.
Have you got to the stage where people associate Charlton with 'you'. Not even 'your team' had a good result at the weekend, but 'you' had a good result at the weekend.
That people feel there is not a single other subject they can talk to you about other than Charlton and football ?
as a youngster would have my head glued to the radio listening out for peter'scoop' burrowes reports for LBC from charlton games... anyone else remember the embarassing capital gold/LBC adverts trying to get people to come down to the valley 'where dinosaurs used to roam' but now 'the welsh wizard performs' (carl harris)
The worst thing about all of it is that defeaty really stings me, winds me up so much, you would have thought after 20 years of going I would have got used to it.
Spot on AFKA. I remember an old CEO of mine who was mightly surprised that I knew about quite a lot on a few other subjects other than football/Charlton - he'd always limit his conversations with me about where had I been or where was I going to next.
I was sad enough however to paint a beard on my subutteo Charlton No. 8
"coz if you know yer history"
In my last job pretty much everyone else I worked with was based in LA but they still used to make 'how did you guys go at the weekend?' one of their first greetings to me.
Was once patched into a conference call with the CFO of a major Hollywood studio at about 6.30 in the evening (not at all unusual when the people you work with are 8 hours behind) - at about 7 I interrupted and told them I was going to have to leave the call as Charlton had a really big game that night - the people in the same room as me in London looked disgusted but the CFO apologised and said she would have rescheduled had she known, wished the Addicks luck and called me especially the next day to find out how they got on!
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Several years ago when we played and beat Arsenal (I think that was a 1-0 around Boxing Day/New Year) I was travelling through Germany back home, I got delayed and then had to change trains at Dusseldorf and literally had seconds between trains - I had no idea how the match ended so at the station I rushed to the newsagent grabbed the first English paper i could find, looked at the table, saw we were three points ahead of where we'd been the previous day, which told me all I needed to know, and then off I ran to get my connection.
Still lost 7-1 though.
Some lad on Arsenals books tore us to shreds, Jamie Donnelly (?).
A friend of mine (RIP Billy) once came home from a boozy Friday night out at the Eltham Hill Social Club. Now, Bill had a telephone in his toilet and as he sat down to do his jobs he thought he'd give Clubcall a quick ring to see there'd been any developments down at CAFC in the time that he'd left for his night out to the time that he'd got back, which was about 4 hours. The only thing is, Billy didn't put the phone back on the receiver properly and the call lasted aproximately 8 hours. He never did tell me how much it cost him but I reckon it would have been in the region of £200.
Can't remember the rest.
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There's an idea. £.38 a minute to log into Charlton Life. What you all think?
I to got an official warning for ringing Clubcall, it was back in the days when we had phones with dials (Not that long ago) and I thought that they couldn't trace those calls.
Bloody Mark Mansfield!!!
After a while, she let me phone Club call every morning. Some days I'd listen to it twice. LOL
I used to enter the competitions and once I even won 2 tickets to see the Easter Charlton v Watford game (top flight) at Selhurst.
Only problem - I was playing in France on a football trip that Easter weekend.
Gave the tickets away to mates.
I've won bugger all since!
I met one of my mates for breakfast the other day, we had been chatting for about three-quarters of an hour, when he said to me in a somewhat p*ssed off voice, " is there any subject that you want to talk about that you does not involve Charlton".