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Sam Bartram

creepyaddick
creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
edited December 2010 in General Charlton
Has anyone seen the little film about Sam Bartram that was posted on the OS?
I thought it was really good
Sam Bartram film

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  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    A local drama group was in school yesterday and there production was all about sam bartram the kids loved it.
  • Paul Walsh 79
    Paul Walsh 79 Posts: 348
    Very enjoyable video.Charlton's true potential is huge but we could do with a 'larger than life Sam figure' on the pitch.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,076
    Fantastic film - very moving.
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,649
    very moving indeed, got a huge wave of dust in my eyes through viewing that...
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Absolutely brilliant. Not ashamed to say my eyes welled up completely by the end.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,076
    edited December 2010
    [cite]Posted By: mistrollingin[/cite]Absolutely brilliant. Not ashamed to say my eyes welled up completely by the end.

    Me too - I'm sitting at home waiting for the plumber to come thinking, hope he doesn't knock now.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,054
    Superb ... I loved that ... cheers ... and have to agree, it does bring a tear (or two) to the eye
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,771
    What an amazing video. My youngest lad Sam who's only 4 is named after the great man . I cant wait to show him it.
  • floydroad
    floydroad Posts: 97
    Enjoyed watching that. Thanks for posting.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    image

    The First Division match between Chelsea and Charlton Athletic on Christmas Day 1937 suffered an abandonment when heavy fog descended on Stamford Bridge. The fog was so bad that Charlton 'keeper Sam Bartram was unaware that the match had ended, assuming that his inactivity was due to the play being in the Chelsea half. It was 15 minutes or so before a policeman told him that the game had been abandoned. In later years he described the events of that afternoon -


    Soon after the kick-off fog began to thicken rapidly at the far end, travelling past Vic Woodley in the Chelsea goal and rolling steadily towards me. The referee stopped the game, and then, as visibility became clearer, restarted it. We were on top at this time, and I saw fewer and fewer figures as we attacked steadily.

    I paced up and down my goal-line, happy in the knowledge that Chelsea were being pinned in their own half. 'The boys must be giving the Pensioners the hammer', I thought smugly, as I stamped my feet for warmth. Quite obviously, however, we were not getting the ball into the net, for no players were coming back to line up, as they would have done following a goal. Time passed, and I made several advances towards the edge of the penalty area, peering through the murk which was getting thicker every minute. Still I could see nothing. The Chelsea defence was clearly being run off its feet.

    After a long time a figure loomed out of the curtain of fog in front of me. It was a policeman, and he gaped at me incredulously. 'What on earth are you doing here?' he gasped. 'The game was stopped a quarter of a hour ago. The field's completely empty.'

    And when I groped my way to the dressing-room the rest of the Charlton team, already out of the bath, were convulsed with laughter.'

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,274
    The club just had a letter to Sam, from Stanley Matthews, returned to it from the National Football Museum.

    Lots of other Bartram items in the Charlton Museum
  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 3,788
    I ask that those who are already 'bored' and angry with Charlton so far this season ,watch the video above! If that doesn't evoke and bring back your passion and belief then I don't know what will!
    Brilliant film and one that I hope can be shown at the museum for many a generation!
    Thanks to whoever brought this thread back up!
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Would it be very wrong to say 'move on'?
    Solly
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited January 2015
    sammy391 said:

    I ask that those who are already 'bored' and angry with Charlton so far this season ,watch the video above! If that doesn't evoke and bring back your passion and belief then I don't know what will!
    Brilliant film and one that I hope can be shown at the museum for many a generation!
    Thanks to whoever brought this thread back up!

    The trouble is you see something like that with a legend like Bartram and you feel all nostalgic and the passion starts to come back.....then you get to The Valley on Saturday still full of passion, you take your seat, look towards the pitch and Neil Etheridge is in goal.........
  • dancafc
    dancafc Posts: 1,009
    Absolute pure class me and my 10 year old son just watched it and at the end he said "that's true" I said "what is" he said "like that boy said about his dad" he said" your my hero" talk about make me lose my words and put a lump in my throat
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,012
    dancafc said:

    Absolute pure class me and my 10 year old son just watched it and at the end he said "that's true" I said "what is" he said "like that boy said about his dad" he said" your my hero" talk about make me lose my words and put a lump in my throat

    Xbox?
  • dancafc
    dancafc Posts: 1,009
    edited January 2015
    masicat said:

    dancafc said:

    Absolute pure class me and my 10 year old son just watched it and at the end he said "that's true" I said "what is" he said "like that boy said about his dad" he said" your my hero" talk about make me lose my words and put a lump in my throat

    Xbox?
    ???

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