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Bank Holiday Monday Celebrations/Commiserations

Cardinal Sin
Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
in General Charlton
Win or lose we're on the booze. After the mental and physical exhaustion of watching the 98 final, I recall the post-match celebrations were surprisingly flat and muted. However, there was a big turnout in the Royal Oak and other Charlton pubs on the Bank Holiday Monday that followed and an open-topped bus parade on the Tuesday evening to the Town Hall if I recall rightly. I suspect the parade may be planned in quiet in the background and would be premature to announce anything obviously. However, anyone planning on a celebratory or drown your sorrows drink in Charlton on the Monday? Trying not to count chickens here. The White Swan would be the natural choice given the relative quality fo the pub and the efforts of the landlord this season to make us more welcome. I would also add the River Ale House but I think he's only 4-11pm opening during the week - maybe an exception for Bank Holiday?

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  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,060
    I'll be at the Old Mill, Star Inn or the Fox.

    If I'm not too tired after my scheduled long cycle.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    iainment said:
    I'll be at the Old Mill, Star Inn or the Fox.

    If I'm not too tired after my scheduled long cycle.
    Good calls for Plumstead.
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    edited May 2019
    The Coach and Horses was good after the 98 final...karaoke....cheer up Peter Reid. This time I'll be out on the piss in Hastings on the Monday...whatever the result. 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,988
    Not anticipating much of a booze on a Sunday so hoping to make up for it down Charlton on Monday
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,309
    win or lose i like a good few will be severely hungover 
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,255
    We'll come CS.  Whatever the result. 
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,095
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,680
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?

    It was mate
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?
    Championship (division one at the time) is always the Monday
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,095
    edited May 2019
    DaveMehmet said:
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?

    It was mate
    Thought so.

    I read @Cardinal Sin's message as people went out on the bank holiday that followed the game? Not the night itself.  All a bit of a blur that day/night even as a 15 year old! 


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  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,921
    cafcdave123 said:
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?
    Championship (division one at the time) is always the Monday
    Its been on the Saturday for years, this year is the first time it’s been switched back to the Monday for a long long time.
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,921
    WSS said:
    DaveMehmet said:
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?

    It was mate
    Thought so.

    I read @Cardinal Sin's message as people went out on the bank holiday that followed the game? Not the night itself.  All a bit of a blur that day/night even as a 15 year old! 

    Yeh I don’t really get that comment!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,123
    Cardinal  Sin's memory is wrong.
    The 1998 final was on Bank Holiday Monday. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,407
    paulsturgess said:
    cafcdave123 said:
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?
    Championship (division one at the time) is always the Monday
    Its been on the Saturday for years, this year is the first time it’s been switched back to the Monday for a long long time.
    They usually have it on a Saturday when there is a World Cup or European Championships

    There are so many Internationals in the Championship these days that they have to have them earlier for players heading off to the pre-tournament camps
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,309
    ive always thought that it should be 

    champs - saturday 
    league 1 - sunday 
    league 2 - monday 

    i think the monday is the worse day to have as most have work next day and have to get back home - plus its the highest attended match of the 3 
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Covered End said:
    Cardinal  Sin's memory is wrong.
    The 1998 final was on Bank Holiday Monday. 
    Sorry, my mistake. I was off on the Tuesday as well then and so were a lot of people. Perhaps the open-top bus was the Wednesday?
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    DaveMehmet said:
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?

    It was mate
    I went sick the following day.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,060
    Hastingsaddick said:?
    DaveMehmet said:
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?

    It was mate
    I went sick the following day.
    I had leave booked. I knew I'd be wrecked either way.
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    iainment said:
    Hastingsaddick said:?
    DaveMehmet said:
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?

    It was mate
    I went sick the following day.
    I had leave booked. I knew I'd be wrecked either way.
    My boss was very sympathetic...just said I had an upset stomach.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,197
    I am working. 07.00 start

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  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,874
    paulsturgess said:
    cafcdave123 said:
    WSS said:
    I swear our game in 1998 was on the bank holiday Monday?
    Championship (division one at the time) is always the Monday
    Its been on the Saturday for years, this year is the first time it’s been switched back to the Monday for a long long time.
    It was on Monday in 2017, I believe it's played Saturday on World Cup/Euro Years now.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,410
    2019: "The first Monday in May is a Bank Holiday.  Which pub should we go to, to celebrate?" 

    2020: "The first Monday in May isn't a Bank Holiday any more.  But all the pubs are shut anyway.  Let's stay in and watch re-runs of this season's football matches". 

    2021: "What's a pub?  What's a football season?  What's a holiday?" 
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,827
    That's a point, wasn't the May bank holiday moved to allow for the VE day commemoration? If we're still in lockdown then (and I've lost track of whether we will be or not) won't it put a kibosh on the whole thing?
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,445
    Chizz said:
    2019: "The first Monday in May is a Bank Holiday.  Which pub should we go to, to celebrate?" 

    2020: "The first Monday in May isn't a Bank Holiday any more.  But all the pubs are shut anyway.  Let's stay in and watch re-runs of this season's football matches". 

    2021: "What's a pub?  What's a football season?  What's a holiday?" 
    2022: "Anyone fancy coming to watch AFC Charlton in the Isthmian South Play Off?"

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