We were in the pub before hand and some Stockport fans started singing, they were like a proper male voice choir singing football songs. One of the first ones they sung was about knocking Palace out the cup, so that went down well.
We took a fair bit of pressure that day but got there in the end, I was behind the goal for the third, it nearly broke the net. Quality day out all round.
Great game great memories. I sat in the directors box that day courtesy of a Stockport director I met on holiday the previous summer.
@blackpool72 That makes two of us, so was I and just along from Curbs and Peacock before they went down to the dugout. I was in the players lounge after the game at the bar and the referee came up to ask if I was Charlton, I said yes and he asked if I knew who scored our second. On telling him it was Hunt and he bagged a hat trick, he said thank gawd for that, I wasn't sure but had already given the match ball to him!
We must have been in the same room together shame I never knew another Charlton supporter was there I thought I was alone.
Great day out. Many may also remember a lively train journey home with the Cockney Reds (Andy Cole scored I think) and some of QPR’s mob. Not sure if @Rock Spectacle recalls me dragging him out of the station with my missus as you were raging at some heavy handed policing and wanted to let them know!
Remember this game well, was relatively young and gutted that I was sitting in the junior reds section and not with the vocal contingent behind the goal. Quality hat trick and followed the one at Norwich which was another quality away day.
Absolutely loved that season, we were the absolute bollox and smashing teams for fun in their own back yard.
My first Charlton game was seeing Hunt score that season!
...in the 3-1 home defeat to Ipswich
Last home game of the season. Can't quite remember why, but I was sitting in the West Stand that day and had some Ipswich supporters sitting in front of me. Wouldn't normally bother me but they were really obnoxious and when they snootily mentioned that the Charlton fans were cheering winning a corner or throw in, I couldn't help but whack one of them in the back of the head and remind them of where they were sitting. Strangely enough they remained fairly quiet for the remainder of the game.
Fantastic day out, one of my favourite teams that year, totally chucked it down, went a bit bandy at the end, Hunt went and got a hattrick against them a couple of weeks later down at our place
That little youth lot who appeared by the train station didn’t hang rd long was a cracking day out that
That third goal was absolutely mint. The dummy to sell the defender the outside then cut inside and smash it with no backlift pass the keeper. Quality striker.
Also scored a hat-trick against Stockport at home earlier in the season.
That's the only game I've ever felt slightly sorry for the opposition because it was like men and boys. Was it 4-0 or 4-1 in the end, with Mark McCammon scoring the other goal?
Great day out in a fantastic season, away games in particular. My abiding memory is Captain (RIP) serenading the stewards with drunken songs about Dr Harold Shipman for what seemed like the whole game. They got terribly pissed off with him.
Fantastic day out, one of my favourite teams that year, totally chucked it down, went a bit bandy at the end, Hunt went and got a hattrick against them a couple of weeks later down at our place
That little youth lot who appeared by the train station didn’t hang rd long was a cracking day out that
Neither did that mob after the game, came out the pub, we turned round only to see them run back in the pub and climb over the pub garden wall and run up the road, great days.
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We took a fair bit of pressure that day but got there in the end, I was behind the goal for the third, it nearly broke the net. Quality day out all round.
Absolutely loved that season, we were the absolute bollox and smashing teams for fun in their own back yard.
...in the 3-1 home defeat to Ipswich
Strangely enough they remained fairly quiet for the remainder of the game.