Not enough talk about our equaliser for me. It was excellent, no fluke either, we have scored others like that this season, and on top of the howler earlier it is even more credit to the players still trying to play their football.
I said last year we didn’t score enough tap ins under Robinson. We started last season scoring wonder goals, which is great, but you won’t keep scoring them all season.
I love how we look to create those type of chances. As well as scoring goals from them other moves have also seen us win a lot of penalties.
Both Purrington and Pratley are thought of as defensive players, but both of them were the players busting a gut to get onto Taylor's excellent cross, a week after Pratley did the same for the goal against Doncaster. That's something that JFC did very well last season
Indeed we have a good variety of players in midfield this season, the likes of Reeves and Morgan who sit deeper and spray passes around, Aribo who dribbles the ball into the box, Williams who runs with pace and Pratley who for an older battler can still run into the box very effectively
What a bloody fantastic day. The game speaks for itself albeit we didnt play at our best. The clock was showing 73 minutes and 16 seconds and I said to my Mrs, "We've got this" She looked at me and said "Really" I said "yep I can feel it". Before the game I had absolutely no expectations as I didnt want to end our holiday here on a low note....I just held it all in...It really is just sinking in on how good it really was.
Surreal meeting an exiled Charlton fan living in Portsmouth at Denham Station, had a good chat then met him again getting off the train after the game. A non footballing fan walked up to me at Denham and shook my hand saying Commiserations, I just looked at him.....his wife said, he's a Charlton fan, so he came back and shook my hand again & said congratulations....met another fan staying on our campsite this morning and there was a Sunderland family who gave it large yesterday, who funnily enough had nothing to say this morning.
If that's scrappy then long may our scrappy football continue
Can't imagine how they could see that as scrappy. The second one, more than fair enough. But we've done that well this year, we've scored some great goals and we've scored some real scrappy ones.
If that's scrappy then long may our scrappy football continue
Can't imagine how they could see that as scrappy. The second one, more than fair enough. But we've done that well this year, we've scored some great goals and we've scored some real scrappy ones.
They all count the same mate. Goals where a team string 20 passes together are a delight but I celebrate just as mentally when we shank one in off an arsecheek or nutbag as when we spread the ball and pull a side apart.
Just listened to the Charlton Live commentary of the winner. Didn’t think anything would get me like Mark Mansfield crying - but this is even more magic! Totally lost it again.
Most Sunderland fans are very decent. They were a credit to their club yesterday. I can see how they might claim there was a foul on Oviedo for our winner, but Oviedo is more of a Turkish Wrestler than a footballer so I doubt they were ever going to get that with no VAR. He who lives by the sword..... Our equaliser was only offside if you don't understand the offside law - which is over complicated but it is what it is. Best quality goal scored in the play offs too - by a decent margin.
For most of this year I have been watching one of the most entertaining Charlton sides I can remember for a long time - accepting the level we play in. It is a long season and our levels went down a bit in the play offs, but it was a chance to see our other qualities. This is a side that is resilient and not easy to beat.
I had worked out that Sunderland have a negative manager and said it enough times on here. It isn't to say he is a bad one or the only one who has that trait. I love Sir Chris, but a lot of managers just allow their teams to sit back when they are ahead and he was one of them too. I was pretty relaxed when we scored the own goal because of a) knowing this, b) knowing we had a lot of time to correct it and c) Knowing that this type of game demands drama and something was going to happen to provide it.
If that's scrappy then long may our scrappy football continue
Can't imagine how they could see that as scrappy. The second one, more than fair enough. But we've done that well this year, we've scored some great goals and we've scored some real scrappy ones.
I loved the second goal. Neat build up with Aribo and Cullen mesmerising the backs, then the latter sending over a delicious cross. Powerful downward header from BFG, only just blocked, and a lunging strike for the winner. Nought wrong with that mate.
If that's scrappy then long may our scrappy football continue
Indeed a touch of Man City about that goal, quick interplay and a devastating cross (from say David or Bernardo Silva) met at the far post by Sterling.
Weirdly, our season was book-ended by mirror images. First game: lost 2-1 to Sunderland, beaten by a late strike. Final game: beat the Mackems 2-1, thanks to a goal at the death...
The drama, excitement and delirium mask a game of dire quality. Sunderland were marginally better: fluid on the flanks, yet lacking any threat near goal. We were hesitant, stuttering, and devoid of ideas. The tempo was too slow and both teams sent passes out of play with appalling frequency. We had just two shots on target - plus the own goal! - while Sunderland managed three. There were 34 fouls in this ragged, hapless mess of a game.
Half of Wembley was a boiling mass of jubilation - as the Mackems slumped in silent disbelief. Triumphant music blasted from the P A, rockets were launched, ticker-tape fluttered from the sky. My pals danced in the aisles but I was stricken: choked, close to tears.
Post-mortems on the Sunderland forum are an entertaining read. They are convinced that Bielik was fouling a defender as Bauer leapt in the 94th minute. Yet they admit that their team has been shyte for many weeks. "Charlie Wyke had a shot?" one of them asks of their 'star striker' in mock surprise. "To add to the one he had LAST month?"
A day I will never forget.To experience it with my son and daughter, it will live with me forever, met so many old friends, Dave Mehmet on the plinth at Trafalgar Square after the game. Had a nice chat with Henry Irving Jnr, what a fine young man he is and credit to Henry Irving Sir and his wife.
I still cannot believe the emotion I felt when the winner went in. I didn’t stop singing last night, and have completely lost my voice, my son has been in bed all day with a hangover from hell, but if you are going to experience your first real hangover what a reason to have it.
Sunderland fans feel Ross screwed up the last transfer window and is too negative and basically cost them promotion in the second half of the season.
I have a bit of a theory about this. If you are having a reasonably successful season in the Scottish Premier League, your "prize" is to play Celtic 4 times. I think the average Scottish managers mentality is "we'll build a Maginot line, defend like buggery, and maybe we'll get lucky and sneak a goal!"
When what Sunderland needed, (let's not forget, they're still getting parachute payments from the Premier League!) is a manager whose attitude is "Screw everyone else! We're going for an unbeaten season and do everybody 4-0!"
My post match views are we were the better team, we wanted it more and in the end we got our rewards. Pure delirium when it went in, must apologise to anyone who was in my block, I am a loud twat with a broken voice and according to the other half my breath stunk of garlic from my subway before the game.
Can't fault any of the players, all did their bit, substitutions spot on by the lord. Loved the afters, love this club, love the players, love our fans and I am so so glad for whatever reason I was the odd one out in my family and picked Charlton.
I was only 7 when we won in 1998 and only started supporting Charlton in 2000, so to get to go to wembley and see us win for myself is something I will never forget.
Championship here we come, keep the same squad and I don't see us going down with a whimper like last time, not with Bowyer in charge
Back at our hotel and sitting quietly having a meal, trying to take in what happened.
But I can’t quite get my head around it. I know I shared something special with my family that they will remember after I’m long gone. That’s good enough for me.
That's about it for me. In '98 I was with my whole family as the youngest member, and this time I was the oldest as I was just with my two boys. They will never forget it. Living outside England it's been an effort but I think I can finally say that they love Charlton now. I want them to remember me this way - with the joy of that winner. What a moment. What a Team. What a life it can be, the Charlton Life.
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Indeed we have a good variety of players in midfield this season, the likes of Reeves and Morgan who sit deeper and spray passes around, Aribo who dribbles the ball into the box, Williams who runs with pace and Pratley who for an older battler can still run into the box very effectively
Surreal meeting an exiled Charlton fan living in Portsmouth at Denham Station, had a good chat then met him again getting off the train after the game. A non footballing fan walked up to me at Denham and shook my hand saying Commiserations, I just looked at him.....his wife said, he's a Charlton fan, so he came back and shook my hand again & said congratulations....met another fan staying on our campsite this morning and there was a Sunderland family who gave it large yesterday, who funnily enough had nothing to say this morning.
Still can't quite believe it.
If that's scrappy then long may our scrappy football continue
What an amazing day yesterday was.
It had everything.
I love my family and my Club.
COYR!
For most of this year I have been watching one of the most entertaining Charlton sides I can remember for a long time - accepting the level we play in. It is a long season and our levels went down a bit in the play offs, but it was a chance to see our other qualities. This is a side that is resilient and not easy to beat.
I had worked out that Sunderland have a negative manager and said it enough times on here. It isn't to say he is a bad one or the only one who has that trait. I love Sir Chris, but a lot of managers just allow their teams to sit back when they are ahead and he was one of them too. I was pretty relaxed when we scored the own goal because of a) knowing this, b) knowing we had a lot of time to correct it and c) Knowing that this type of game demands drama and something was going to happen to provide it.
Watch closely, canny play.
It's pure class and an excellent team goal.
The drama, excitement and delirium mask a game of dire quality. Sunderland were marginally better: fluid on the flanks, yet lacking any threat near goal. We were hesitant, stuttering, and devoid of ideas. The tempo was too slow and both teams sent passes out of play with appalling frequency. We had just two shots on target - plus the own goal! - while Sunderland managed three. There were 34 fouls in this ragged, hapless mess of a game.
Post-mortems on the Sunderland forum are an entertaining read. They are convinced that Bielik was fouling a defender as Bauer leapt in the 94th minute. Yet they admit that their team has been shyte for many weeks. "Charlie Wyke had a shot?" one of them asks of their 'star striker' in mock surprise. "To add to the one he had LAST month?"
I still cannot believe the emotion I felt when the winner went in. I didn’t stop singing last night, and have completely lost my voice, my son has been in bed all day with a hangover from hell, but if you are going to experience your first real hangover what a reason to have it.
When what Sunderland needed, (let's not forget, they're still getting parachute payments from the Premier League!) is a manager whose attitude is "Screw everyone else! We're going for an unbeaten season and do everybody 4-0!"
Wrong manager = wrong club.
They should have bought Eaves. I wonder if we will try and sign him.
Can't fault any of the players, all did their bit, substitutions spot on by the lord. Loved the afters, love this club, love the players, love our fans and I am so so glad for whatever reason I was the odd one out in my family and picked Charlton.
I was only 7 when we won in 1998 and only started supporting Charlton in 2000, so to get to go to wembley and see us win for myself is something I will never forget.
Championship here we come, keep the same squad and I don't see us going down with a whimper like last time, not with Bowyer in charge