I was gutted when Jim Melrose left us. I always remembered it that his wife couldn't settle down south. Have I misremembered? Whatever, I was working in the main Divorce Registry in Somerset House back then and I would love to have served her a set of pre-completed divorce papers based on her unreasonable behaviour and citing her stupid selfishness
I don't remember being at that game at the Den though, although I don't know why I wouldn't have gone and enjoyed the usual intimidation anxiety and sphincter distress
Melrose (arm raised) celebrates with the other CAFC players wearing a red OSCA Woolwich shirt.
George Shipley (far left) scored our other goal two minutes later in the 44th minute.
Melrose was also booked along with 4 other Charlton players and 4 of the Millwall side.
I was in fact saluting the birth of Lady Gaga, lol
In this great picture, with Curbs and Johnny H, we were on The Edge of Glory.
Melrose (arm raised) celebrates with the other CAFC players wearing a red OSCA Woolwich shirt.
George Shipley (far left) scored our other goal two minutes later in the 44th minute.
Melrose was also booked along with 4 other Charlton players and 4 of the Millwall side.
I was in fact saluting the birth of Lady Gaga, lol
In this great picture, with Curbs and Johnny H, we were on The Edge of Glory.
I was gutted when Jim Melrose left us. I always remembered it that his wife couldn't settle down south. Have I misremembered? Whatever, I was working in the main Divorce Registry in Somerset House back then and I would love to have served her a set of pre-completed divorce papers based on her unreasonable behaviour and citing her stupid selfishness
Did Jim's wife even move south ? The 3-2 win watching with my dad against the Champions Everton is in my top 10 games of all times. Jim Melrose was a great penalty area poacher.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
29 March 1986 and Lennie Lawrence's promotion chasing side are away at Millwall.
New signing Jim Melrose, wearing No.8, wheels away after scoring Charlton's first goal in the 2 - 2 draw. Att: 7,846
PIC: Tom Morris/Charlton Athletic Museum
Me and my brother were in that home end. From memory Melrose scored and ventured towards the home end with his fist clenched. Thought we were going to die…..
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
Jimmy Melrose scored 5 or so vital goals for us in the 1985/86 promotion run-in after we got him prior to the then March transfer deadline. Yet another superb signing by Lennie Lawrence for a bargain price of around £50,000. Mike Flanagan (by then in the veteran stage) had been excellent in the first half of that season but had started to dip as the season wore on. Jim Melrose was just what we needed at that stage to get us over the line.
I think that Melrose ended up with something like 17 goals in the top flight in 1986/87 in our first season back in the top flight for 29 years. As well as his early strike at Upton Park, he got an absolutely vital last minute winner against Leeds in the first lag of the play-off final and I remember him scoring at least one cracking goal as we thrashed Man City 5-0 at Selhurst Park just after Christmas. As others have said, however, his crowning glory was a hat-trick in the 3-2 win over the reigning Champions, Everton. I wouldn't mind betting that the old Finch's Sports Video isn't rolled out tomorrow - and rightly so. What a great day that was.
I have got a vague recollection of him scoring a couple of goals for Leicester against us in a dismal 4-1 defeat at The Valley in the early 80s, with a young lad called Lineker also getting on the scoresheet. In the light of subsequent events, however, I have long forgiven him.
Another vintage signing from The Len. As he said back then, it was great to have a few Scotsmen with a tough mentality in the team and Jimmy Melrose was certainly an excellent example of that, in addition to his fellow Scots ,Mark Reid and Colin Walsh.
Great post!
That was the year I first started going. What a team!
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I've spoken to Jimmy quite a few times and he often puts on the a dodgy London accent. It's just something he does.
Ah, right. "Just something he does". That's all ok then.
If you're so displeased, write him a letter and I'll pass it on.
Sorry, didn't realise you were his agent.
It was years ago. I'm over it. I was over it the day it happened. I just thought I'd share a Jim Melrose related story on a thread about Jim Melrose. In my experience the bloke is a knob. Your experience may differ, but that doesn't make me wrong.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I loved Melrose the player, for us. But I met him once and thought he was an absolute ****, openly taking the piss out of two young lads outside Wolves ground to look "clever" in front of his pals. Knob.
Was that during his short Charlton career or years later , who did the fans support he took the piss out of ? not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
It was around the time he was playing for Macclesfield, so a few years after he left us. Charlton were playing away at Wolves and two Charlton fans* in their late teens were walking about outside the ground when one of them spotted Melrose, suited and booted, making his way towards the main stand (presumably on some sort of corporate slosh).
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
I've spoken to Jimmy quite a few times and he often puts on the a dodgy London accent. It's just something he does.
Ah, right. "Just something he does". That's all ok then.
If you're so displeased, write him a letter and I'll pass it on.
Sorry, didn't realise you were his agent.
It was years ago. I'm over it. I was over it the day it happened. I just thought I'd share a Jim Melrose related story on a thread about Jim Melrose. In my experience the bloke is a knob. Your experience may differ, but that doesn't make me wrong.
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Whatever, I was working in the main Divorce Registry in Somerset House back then and I would love to have served her a set of pre-completed divorce papers based on her unreasonable behaviour and citing her stupid selfishness
In this great picture, with Curbs and Johnny H, we were on The Edge of Glory.
Did Jim's wife even move south ?
The 3-2 win watching with my dad against the Champions Everton is in my top 10 games of all times.
Jim Melrose was a great penalty area poacher.
not doubting he’s a **** he’s a sweaty sock for a start so increases the odds **
** only joking I love Scottish people x
The Charlton fans said hello, explained who they supported and said how much they enjoyed his time with us. He just looked at them like they were shit on his shoes and then in a mock cockney accent came out with some old guff like "Cor blimey, apples and pears, my old man's a dustman", etc, much to his own amusement and that of the people he was with. Totally uncalled for. Just rude c**ty behaviour.
To be fair, I think one of the Charlton lads may have then said something like "Enjoy Macclesfield, you c***!". Which he didn't like, but fcuk him.
*one of these two Charlton fans may have been me.
That was the year I first started going. What a team!
It was years ago. I'm over it. I was over it the day it happened. I just thought I'd share a Jim Melrose related story on a thread about Jim Melrose. In my experience the bloke is a knob. Your experience may differ, but that doesn't make me wrong.