Sunday 29th March 1987. Blackburn Rovers 1 (0) (Hendry 85) Charlton Athletic 0 (0) Wembley, Att: 43,789
Blackburn: O'Keefe, Price, Sulley, Barker, Keeley, Mail, Miller, Ainscow, Hendry, Garner, Sellars (Patterson 73). Unused sub: Branagan.
Charlton: Bolder, Humphrey, Reid, Peake, Thompson, Miller, Milne, Lee, Melrose, Walsh, Shipley. Unused subs: Gritt, Shirtliff.
Referee B. Stevens (Stonehouse, Glos)
Macott: Eltham Addick (Eltham)
Charlton, playing their first Wembley final for 40 years, dominated most of the game and created the better chances, which went begging. As was so often the case in the league.
Don Mackay, Rovers manager commented: "Charlton had far better players than us but you can't tell how they're going to react to playing at Wembley. I think they'd have beaten us on any other ground.
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It was a reasonable day out and an experience of Wembley but I personally I felt it was a bit of distraction and not much else.
Couldn't believe I was actually at Wembley watching Charlton, never thought that would happen in my lifetime!
Grey miserable day and grey miserable match.
Ralph Milne played......what was Lenny thinking????
God, I had more fun watching us get beat 3-0 at Halifax.
I seem to remember it took a wicked deflection off a defender and sent Bob Bolder completely the wrong way.
Summed up our match. Not much singing on the coach home that day.
It was my middle daughters 2nd birthday and we had a family party.
i was just in awe of wembley,never been there before and so wrapped up that charlton were playing there. don't remember a thing about the game,just seemed to be over in a flash for me.bit gutted we lost,but nothing really.and saw a bit of fighting in the car park,people running in and out of double deckers.
i always used to get a programme,but this one never joined my collection.
As for R Milne where did he go before Man Utd.....
I remember thinking at the time that Lennie must have fecked something up badly if Fergie was buying a bloke we had kicked out....turned out Lennie had it spot on all along!!!!
obviously I then made a miracle recovery but on Mum's instructions Dad made us go in the seats rather than stand.
I can honestly say the only vague memory I have is the Rovers goal.
Is it really twenty years since that match? Jesus i feel old
We went up on a Lewis coach from Charlton I think
Stood on that terrace behind the goal, was only a littlun and remember the view was terrible.
Still have the old mans ticket in the programme at home, think it was fiver on the terrace.
all i remember was how long it took to get there on the train. how difficult it was to look cool in front of his mates on a crowded underground. how big Wembley was & how empty it looked with us behind the goal on the terraces with lots of space to move around in.
i was absolutely gutted when we lost & the journey home was grim.
that memory scared the bejesus out of me on the morning of our play off final...............i really didn't want to walk into Wembley half empty & lose again............i needn't have worried ;-)
There were two main groups of Charlton on the bottom tier terracing, I was to the right of the goal. This was probably the biggest non-event of my Charlton supporting life.
we also had to neck a load of cans of drink outside that my dad had brought with him and the stewards wouldn't let him take them in.
remember very little about the game other than the blackburn goal seeming to be very similar to that we conceded against norwich in the semi.
A real low point in our history when the club was in such a poor state in nearly every way.
Vaguely remember trouble in the coach park as well.
Wasnt it Hendry's first ever goal or something?
I was a 25 year old big kid on the day, so excited at the prospect. Disregarding the few hundred that watched us in the early rounds, I walked into Wembley expecting to see the hoards of Valley faithfull that refused to travel to croydon coming back to see the boys and at least some of the tens of thousands who drifted away from Charlton during the seventies and eighties.
Well I have to say that I can only remember a few other times being that depressed about a match before it had even kicked off when we only mustered 15,000 or so. I felt like doing a Charlton Heston and beating the ground shouting, 'Damn you all to hell', to all those that stayed away.
For me it was sort of inevitable that we we lost.
Fortunately my return 11 years later was soooooo much better and laid that particular ghost to rest.
you missed:.....'Mascot - Eltham_addick'
Exactly the same for me. I don't remember very much about the day other than the excitement of going to Wembley and not being able to see very much of the game from behind the goal. Ho-hum.
Remember giving it large to a coach full of Blackburn fans after the game that they were only second division and it was a mickey mouse event. Coach stopped abruptly, I disappeared quicker than you could say Ralph Milne!
we also had to neck a load of cans of drink outside that my dad had brought with him and the stewards wouldn't let him take them in.
remember very little about the game other than the blackburn goal seeming to be very similar to that we conceded against norwich in the semi.[/quote]
You remember more than me then! I remember being cold sat in the shade but nothing about the match. Other than that the most I can remember is a bloke getting onto the coach as we were stopped in traffic outside the ground with a load of flags etc. to sell and he'd mistaken which team we supported as he had all the Blackburn ones on show!