I was thinking as I was posting on the 2nd team thread of how many pro games/teams I have been to that weren't Charlton games.
Home teams
Spurs x 5
Chelsea x 1
Wimbledon x 1
Palarse x 2
Maidstone Utd x 2
Brighton x 1(Fans United Game)
West Ham x 1
I can't remember all the away sides for these games but Liverpool and Arsenal at least once each
Actually thats not very long, I suspect some lifers have a much longer list.
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As a kid, my dad regularly would take me to a different London club for a game.
With buying in advance and the prices, i doubt many are able to do that now.
Barca v Valencia
Barca v Valladolid
Depor v Barca
Valencia v Barca (x2)
Barca v Atletico
Barca v Real (x2)
Barca v Oviedo
Espanyol v Barca (x2)
Barca v Depor
Barca v Sampdoria
Sutton Utd v Carshalton Athletic
Welling v Sutton Utd
Spain v England
Enlgand v Spain
Palermo v Messina
Palermo v Fiorentina
And before you say its sad that I can list them all - its because I have the ticket stubs from them all (except Sutton & Welling!)
Mind you, that probably makes me even sadder...
Spurs away at Sheffield United
Orient home to a lot of teams and away at Oxford, Southend
Oldham away at Doncaster
We were in the Liverpool end and it was crush central with loads of "crowd surges" down the terracing and a number of scousers urinating from the top of the terraces rather than take the 30 yard walk to the actual bogs.
Liverpool won 2-0 as part of their 28 game unbeaten run, can't remember who scored though. Maybe Houghton and Barnes now I think about it.
Seen a few westham home games including westham millwall at bolyn.
thats about it!
Bristol City a few times, Leeds, Harrogate, Dundee, Derry, Bury, Lincoln, Hull City, Hearts, Barcelona, Wycombe, York City, Luton, Rochdale (worst out of all of them) and many more.
I couldn't give a rats arse about any of their results though
i get offered a st for chelsea for some games, but i'm always watching charlton (or listening) so don't use it. would feel wrong seeing a game if it wasn't charlton and they were playing at the same time.
only went chelsea blackburn this season because charlton were away at bolton on a tuesday night and i spent the whole evening glued to my phone waiting for updates. didn't enjoy it.
Fulham V Spurs cup game from 82's
Palace V Norwich a couple of years back
Palace V Everton 80's
Arsenal V some team CL around 2000
A few Millwall back in the 80's when we were away
Orient V dunno
A few more cant think of now
Quite a few Millwall in the 70's when too young to travel with Charlton (no money!)
Liverpool v Spurs on a freebie with a client a few years ago
Eintracht Frankfurt a few times as I work there a lot
Chelsea a couple of times in the 70's - I remember going there one Easter afternoon after we had played in the morning - as LTGTR mentions, it was a lot easier then as you just needed to pitch up at the grounds and you would get in
And thats about it.
ones that stand out.
man u v juventus european cup sf? circa 81
arsenal v man utd milk cup sf circa 82
chelsea v boro zds final
huddersfield swansea autoscreen final
huddersfield v ? play off final
huddersfield blackpool last game at leeds road
and for some reason
swansea v torquay
mansfield v hereford
Arsenal v Tottenham in 70's, dad was Arsenal and my godfather was Spurs so they used to try and get me to follow their teams.
West Ham v Brum early 70's with next door neighbour a West Ham hoolie from Belvedere.
When I worked for a company owned by the railways in mid 80's I used to abuse the free travel and went to too many games to remember, used to go with a Chelsea mate and pick a Friday night match somewhere then get a train to SAcotland for a Saturday game, the ones that stick out....
Friday night Newport County v Darlo
Friday night Stockport County v doncaster
Friday night Doncaster v someone
Scottish games...
Hearts v Dundee
East Fife v Forfar
Montrose v someone
and the big derby
Cowdenbeath v Stenhuisemuir - 'let em all come down to..... Ochilview Park'
One European Cup game
Steau Bucharest v Rangers - when Ceacescu (sic?) was still running (down) the country.
plus plenty of other minor games.
Roma vs Perugia
Spain vs England
What a nightmare. I can't beat that but I did go to the same Orient v Charlton game three times in the late 70's which was abandonned, then called off and finally went ahead and completed the following day.
I've just realised that I have forgotten four Norwich City games I've seen up here since I moved up plus four or five England games.
When I was a lad I was also a Bromley fan and I used to watch them at home, if Charlton were away. I don't count those as they were not professional games.
palace v swindon and palace v blackburn (away end both times) for the play off games late eighties
play off finals featuring huddersfield , orient and burnley
milan v inter
The second was the 1996 Play-off final between Palace and Leicester. A friend of a friend from university was a Leicester fan, but couldn't go as he had one of his finals that day, so I had his ticket instead. The Leicester fans were a bit surprised that someone with a strong south London accent was in their end, but when I explained that I was a Charlton fan and the reason why we hated Palace (apart from the fact that they'd beaten us in the semis), they couldn't have been nicer. And then to cap it all, just after Leicester had brought their giant 6ft 7 keeper on in preparation for penalties, Claridge scored in the last minute to send Leicester up, and everyone went mental.
In some respects it was more enjoyable than our win in 1998, because while I wanted Leicester to win, I didn't really have anything invested in it, so I could enjoy the match and the banter without all the tension .
I used to go with mates to all kind of games in my late teens, early 20's to games not involving us when we were away from home. A couple of mates were attempting to do the 92 grounds, so saw some classic lower league stuff.
Used to go and bunk into Bromley a lot too. My best mates parents were good friends with Frank Stapleton, so (if it didn't clash with a Addicks home game), used to watch Man U in London a lot too.
And, thinking about it, had some Millwall mates - and watched them a fair few times as well.
In those days I used to see about 3 games a week.
Naestved - Silkeborgs
AIK Stockholm - Hammarby
PSG - Lille
Atletico Madrid - Borussia Dortmund
Real Madrid - Real Soceidad (Mijatovic & Suker tore them apart in a 6-2 demolition)
Sevilla - Valencia
Juventus - Austria Vienna
Fiorentina - Cremonese
Lazio - Udinese
Inter Milan - Cagliari
TSV 1860 Munich - Werder Bremen
Tenerife - Porto
Benfica - Boavista
Belenenses - Estoril
probably a few more buried in the dim & distant past
8 Euro 96 games - non involving Engerland
St Johnstone v Hearts in 83
Numerous Brighton games from 1983-86 - when i lived down there for a while as a kid (including both FA Cup finals, the 7-0 & 3-5 BHAFC - CAFC games)...........