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Incredible Goal By Ray Crawford (1969)

NapaAddick
NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
in General Charlton
This video literally popped up on YouTube a few hours ago, put up by some Millwall fan, of a match between us and them at The Den in 1969. This goal is ridiculous! Any of you old enough to actually remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfbO3Z4APt4

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    I missed this game as I was playing rugby down in Bristol .. Ray Crawford was always a terrific striker. a consistent goal scorer. Remember his and Ted Phillips' goals won the title for Ipswich (under Alf Ramsey) in 1961/62. Also, dare I say. good memories of the late Keith Weller, oh that he was an Addick, we would have been promoted back in the mid 1960s  
  • No.1 in South London
    No.1 in South London Posts: 3,961
    edited September 2020
    I was there standing at the front as Keith Peacock flashed past me and had a great view of that goal............. one of the few times we ever came away from there with anything (1-1 draw) .......... remember a few years later taking the lead with a Cyril Davies goal and coming away beaten 2-1 ........... and so the years of pain against them began. Loved that all red kit though, my first one with 8 on the back for Ray Treacy
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    I was at the game with my dad, stood on the halfway line, great goal.
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,603
    Also won two caps for England, remember him well, and was at that game. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,795
    Wasn't this goal used as part of the intro to The Big Match at one point?
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    Bloody ‘ell, I remember that, great strike by Crawford.

    Shame we only got him towards the end of his career.

    Can’t remember the score, what are the odds that we won that game?
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Addick Addict said:
    Wasn't this goal used as part of the intro to The Big Match at one point?
    Yes it was
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    I remember at the time calling it a Crawford cracker.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I was there on the half way line.
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    Great goal. It got voted quite a few rounds in during the OS Covid worldly game. 
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  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Pretty sure that goal is included in the This is the Valley sequence shown on the big screen before every home game.
    Great goal, sadly I wasn't at that game
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    NapaAddick said:
    This video literally popped up on YouTube a few hours ago, put up by some Millwall fan, of a match between us and them at The Den in 1969. This goal is ridiculous! Any of you old enough to actually remember this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfbO3Z4APt4

    Our commercial department was crap back then. No shirt sponsorship ... disgraceful 😲
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Still haven't got over it. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,319
    That's almost identical to the Berger goal against us, except from half as far out. Much heavier ball though, so maybe almost as impressive!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,228
    Was a finalist or semifinalist in the greatest goals competition run by the club over the summer.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    I started going in March 1969, I wasn't at that game but remember it on the big match, televised Charlton ganes in those days were few and far between.

    Crawford wasn't there for long, I dimly remember reading in a book his wife annoyed Eddie Firmani, could have been over a pay rise (or lack of), and he moved on. 

    One of my early heroes, with Tees and Treacy.
  • JoshrewCAFC
    JoshrewCAFC Posts: 916
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Crawford_(footballer)

    He had an exceptional goal scoring record at every club he played for! 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    eaststandmike said:
    I was at the game with my dad, stood on the halfway line, great goal.
    Same here.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Baldybonce said:
    eaststandmike said:
    I was at the game with my dad, stood on the halfway line, great goal.
    Same here.

    I was there with your dad too.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    I was there, I remember it well.
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,027
    JoshrewCAFC said:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Crawford_(footballer)

    He had an exceptional goal scoring record at every club he played for! 
    Wow, 143 in 197 in his first spell at Ipswich, that is amazing.
  • LMHR
    LMHR Posts: 172
    I seem to remember ray scoring with an overhead kick too at the valley in front of the covered end ???? 
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    LMHR said:
    I seem to remember ray scoring with an overhead kick too at the valley in front of the covered end ???? 

    Might have been v Sheffield United, rings a distant bell. Bit of an epic game IIRC, it was the first time I'd ever taken notice of an oppposition player, Tony Currie, who was a class act.
  • Bailey
    Bailey Posts: 3,265
    Ray Crawford refused to travel to Bisham Abbey for a specially arranged training camp because his wife was ill. Eddie Firmani sacked him. In the space of a month Eddie Firmani had got rid of his two main goal scorers, Matt Tees to Luton and Ray Crawford. He was left with rookie Paul Gilchrist and Ray Treacy and after losing five nil to Leicester at the Valley later in the season at Easter, Firmani was sacked. 
  • h
    h Posts: 144
    I was there with my Dad on the left hand side of the Cold Blow Lane end. They seemed a trifle upset when we celebrated and threatened us with everything if we scored again. Happy days.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Crawford then went on to score a hat trick for Colchester United as they knocked the mighty Leeds United out of the FA Cup.
    He was a brilliant player and even his relatively short spell with us was excellent.
  • No.1 in South London
    No.1 in South London Posts: 3,961
    seth plum said:
    Crawford then went on to score a hat trick for Colchester United as they knocked the mighty Leeds United out of the FA Cup.
    He was a brilliant player and even his relatively short spell with us was excellent.
    Ray scored two of the 3 against Leeds, and Simmons scored the third Seth
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    No.1 in South London said:
    seth plum said:
    Crawford then went on to score a hat trick for Colchester United as they knocked the mighty Leeds United out of the FA Cup.
    He was a brilliant player and even his relatively short spell with us was excellent.
    Ray scored two of the 3 against Leeds, and Simmons scored the third Seth
    I stand corrected. Thanks.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    While we are in nostalgia, a friend and I were discussing a game that he said he no one he knows remembers, but I do - just none of the details!

    It was an evening game when I think Mick Rose had come out of goal to close down a player, the ball was played wide and crossed in and headed towards goal, and a stranded Rose(?) pulled down the cross bar and saved the goal. Anyone remember the game, the goalie and the team we were playing? What year was it?
  • Isawsummersplay
    Isawsummersplay Posts: 1,428
    Was on the half way line and it got a bit lively when Crawford's goal went in. On the Big Match, the next day, I remember Brian Moore saying 'It's a sea of fists below me as rival fans get stuck into one another'. 

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