No idea if the film will be any good (released in August) but one of the actors Gavin Brockner is a regular at the Valley.
Excerpt from a recent interview:
Gavin: Well I’ve always grown up in South-East London, in Plumstead, and basically lived there all my life. Apart from acting, I mean I’m a big football fan, I’m a Charlton Athletic supporter my uncle and my cousin are big Charlton supporters and they took me I think from the age of five or six. I remember the first game I went to see, it was against Crystal Palace and we won 2:1. I remember just sort of walking out – the stadium now has changed so much, but just that atmosphere it was just magic, you can’t beat it. And whenever I walk out now from the stadium you just get that – again it’s that other little buzz that we keep talking about the buzz being a sort of magic word, but it’s a different, different buzz. My happiest football memories – Charlton-Sunderland in the play-off final in the nineties. It was 4:4. It was like 1:0 Sunderland, one all, 2:1 Sunderland, two all. Went into extra time. 3:2, three all, 4:3, four all. Penalty goes 6:6. Sasha makes a penalty save. We’re up in the Premier League. First time in my life Charlton, we’re going to be playing top flight football. Absolutely the best game that I’ve ever seen, at Wembley Stadium. I was cuddling people that were round me, that I didn’t know. Fantastic. Another great experience. This one’s for you Cass and I’m adding the 4:0 win at the valley last season against the Hammers.
Cass: Another extra question I meant to ask you, which always baffles me, as you're a Charlton fan, and we know Charlton fans because they shared the ground at Upton Park, yeah. Who do you see as your derby? I mean we’ve got issues now ourselves, the generation of West Ham fans now see Tottenham as their real derby, yeah. But the generations I go back to it was always Millwall and even Man United before Tottenham, if you can work that one out. I’m an old seventies man and I always thought the derby with Charlton was Millwall, as it was only down the road, yeah. I live in the Crystal Palace area in South-East London and I’ve a lot of Charlton friends as well and this Palace and Charlton rivalry, you know what I mean. So I don’t personally as a hammer’s fan, as an outsider, I feel the passion but I don’t understand where it comes from and I know it is very young so I don’t even know where the history lies. |I mean as a Charlton fan do you sense this rivalry. Is that the derby for you? Would you speak for the fans, or do you see that one, and do you know why? Is it Palace or is it Millwall, or is it because you don’t play?
Gavin: Yeah, well I think now it is Palace. I think, the unfortunate thing for Millwall and Millwall supporters is at the moment they’re in League 1. It's very rare – unless we get them in a cup draw. I mean we haven’t played Millwall in years, you know, years. I’m sure if they were to come up and we were to find ourselves in a league game, I’m sure that the rivalry would be quite strong... But I think now Palace though. I mean I’ve been there the other week when we played them off the park and embarrassed them. What were they doing? But you know you can feel it, I mean in the fans I mean there is venom there, there’s a real big rivalry there. I would say now certainly in 2007-2008 Charlton’s derby is Crystal Palace. I mean it’s an absolute, I mean there is that venom. And there’s such, that great feeling to win that game you know and to sing to those supporters. We didn’t shut up in that game, so yeah Palace I would say is the rivalry.
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sorry - is this a film about cass pennant??? god almighty.
I'm afraid so!
he must only be a pup then.
First time I met him he did it, he's a nice enough fella, but lose the shades Cass.
Thats what the world is waiting for
He was one of my dad's apprentices with the old GLC. Came round the house a few times. My dad always thought he was a decent guy but then he got put away for stamping on a Millwall fans head.
Sounds like more pornography of violence stuff. One to miss.
Dont believe you.....inside knowledge and all that.. :-)
I remember it well mate, I had to hold you back.
Recent history maybe : - )
Tempted to buy it for a tenner.
Cass Pennant lives in the same road as my Dad.
I thank you.
Who do you think we are, Crystal Palace?
Other than that it was pretty average.
Average at best, not very well made, met Cass a couple of times myself for joint interests :-), nice enough guy but I believe he loves his own hype.
Rise of The foot soldier, with some early ICF input about Stacey Leach, Billy Gardner etc is a much better film and is very gritty.
On that, if anyone has read or seen the book about Billy Gardner, one of the main photos of him inside with an 80's perm and green flight jacket on, is taken outside the old office building/house where the clubshop is now at the Valley, you can see the floodlights blazing in the background on the East Terrace.
Cass --- Gardner and others still go and take their kids and their kids kids in some cases
Knew Varney in Garners book very well and also Cass`s best mate from way back John S (when they where Slade Green)
Strange how the "Hoolies" still go and go and go long after the flask and blanket mafia have given up !