A bit like The Mount, I've never managed to find a photo of the match and / or the pitch invasion - the one of the players having a drink after seems to be the sole photo....
This always bugged me. There was a picture taken from the main stand of everyone on the pitch which was in a handbook the following year, the only other picture was a shot of Phil Warman I think punching the air. Never seen pictures of the goals, missed penalty or anything. As it was the last home game of the season there was no following weeks programme to put them in so I suppose they never saw the light of day.
The main issue is how dark it was at night games in those days due to the inferior quality of the floodlights, and presumably camera technology. It made it difficult to get decent pictures.
I got the worst shits of my life at the Sahara Beach.
Never made it back to the room and just let go in the lift.
To this day, the “Out of Order” sign still hasn’t been removed! Horrified staff at the time gave it a nickname which has stuck over the years and it’s still known as ........al’iinkliziu mukhzin hinta....“The Englishman’s Lift”.
For those too young to have seen them, or too old to remember their names, here's the glorious 1974/75 squad
16 players, extremely tough tackling by today’s standards expected and the resulting bruises, pitches like potato patches by Christmas, games played on consecutive days at Easter
For those too young to have seen them, or too old to remember their names, here's the glorious 1974/75 squad
16 players, extremely tough tackling by today’s standards expected and the resulting bruises, pitches like potato patches by Christmas, games played on consecutive days at Easter
Yeah some of the pitches were mud baths (remember the baseball ground Derby ) Charlton in those days had one of the best playing surfaces in the football league courtesy of the late Maurice Banham ,a great grounds man who always had a smile on his face.
Guilty...even took a clump of grass and replanted in my dads house where I lived in gravesend. Still there today as far as I know. Dad is a keen gardener.
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Did you see Mark Lawrenson was playing for Preston Both Ends that night?
Btw.. the main gates were finally locked at
4am .
Horrified staff at the time gave it a nickname which has stuck over the years and it’s still known as ........al’iinkliziu mukhzin hinta....“The Englishman’s Lift”.
Loving this thread. Brought back memories of a great season when I was 19.
Used to go home & away virtually every game back then.
Charlton in those days had one of the best playing surfaces in the football league courtesy of the late Maurice Banham ,a great grounds man who always had a smile on his face.