Halifax away in the cup (was it the year we won league 1?). Midday kick off. Most of us still drink from night before as had to set off about 4am to get there. Remember half time they had cans of beer set up on a picnic table. Felt like we were at someone’s garden bbq instead of a game. Won 4-0 to put icing on the cake.
A bit random but an Ipswich supporting mate got me a ticket to their game away at Millwall in Aug 2017. Amazing game in the end, was a 7 goal thriller with Ipswich nicking it 4-3 in the 88th minute.
Wolves away 1976 FA cup , my first away game. We lost 3 0, my dad supported Wolves and he took me. I’m welling up writing this like a soppy cunt.
Chelsea in 88 obviously. What a day from the meet at the St Martin’s onwards
Boro away in about 86. For various reasons. Mainly we ended up stranded in Redcar for 2 days with no money and a car we crashed into a sand dune.
Liverpool . The game of ruining Stan Boardman at half time
Millwall in the snow
Boro cup quarterfinal. Great trip (RIP Duncan)
my god it’s been great.
Redcar. Fuck me...hellish place.
Absolutely. We went there after the game for the night. Went to a club called Leo’s , had a row in there, my mate then drove the motor into the beach thinking he could drive through a sand dune. Blew 2 tyres up. Slept in the car whilst one of our lot went to the local nick and slept in the reception, then spent 2 days getting money wired to us and spending it on drink and then having to ring for more. Bunked the train back and left my mates car up there. Got the car back after Hull away a few weeks later.
Arsenal 4-2 win Claus’ goal was sublime and the game had everything. I know that Arsenal peppered our goal with shots most of the game, it was just a case of us being more clinical and seem to remember their goalkeeper having a poor game too. Was not their regular maybe.
Closely behind our win at Palace with Rommedahl scoring in injury time. I really liked the Dane speedster and we only saw his brilliance in flashes, so that goal and win was super sweet against the Nigels.
Finally, 2-0 at the new Den with Grant’s brace and I think it was Paul Mortimer who played like Pele in the second half, dancing around them all and leaving them flat on their arses. Scenes outside afterwards were none too pleasant, what a surprise, but so pleased I was there to see that win.
Crewe 0 - Charlton 3 belting day out and brilliant result
Think that was the start of the run to the play offs, 7 wins 1 draw
Port Vale on Easter Monday was good as well. Free travel up I think
we beat Norwich away in the night that season (at the start), and then again the season we won the Championship 99/00. Mendonca hat trick in the 97 game, Hunt hat trick in the 99 game
in the 99/00 we beat Wolves away 3-2 in Jan or Feb, part of the 12 wins a row. A classic for me as it was yet another day off sixth form. My dad drove up, with my uncle @The31YearMan. We went over Putney bridge and out via m40. About an hour or so away from Wolverhampton, we had to stop for petrol. For some reason my dad put unleaded in the tank and it was a diesel car. The panic set in and as we left the service station, the car got about 10 yards up the slip road before conking out. RAC had to be called, of course they said there’s about a 2 hour wait. @The31YearMan made the executive decision to call a cab company so that he and I could get to the game, it cost about £100 (my uncle also made a point of keeping this on the down low, as he didn’t want his wife to find out about the added expense), whilst we left my dad to wait for the RAC, in the hope he could make at least the second half.
As it transpired, he missed the whole game and turned up just in time to pick my uncle and I up, not best pleased. Added to that, it was early days of mobile phones where I had a pay as you go Nokia, he didn’t have a phone, so had to call me from a pay phone near the ground to coordinate where we would meet. My uncle and I turn up absolutely buzzing because it was a very good game and great result, my dad not happy at all.
I had a great day. Time off school, a great win and no expense to myself whatsoever.
Beating Spurs 3-2 at White Hart Lane back in 2004 is the stand out one for me.
2-0 up at half time thanks to a Shaun Bartlett brace. He got himself sent off for handball in the second half after we went 3-0 up through Jerome Thomas, they fought back to 3-2 but we held on.
Remember the atmosphere being so good in the away end, we were right next to the spurs fans.
Just tried looking for the highlights but couldn't find them. Pretty sure it was this game when Bartlett scored that diving header, I was only a kid at the time so may be wrong.
Sheffield Wednesday Away FA Cup 4th Round 2014, on a Monday Night Ben Hamer started over the Standard Loan (crap) keeper Was almost thrown down several rows when Simon Church scored
Biggest moment was in injury time 2-1 up, crowded penalty box, you cannot see Ben Hamer (in his bright yellow kit) for the amount of players. One of the Sheff Wed players has a punt from outside the area, its going into the top corner, until this big yellow arm appears from nowhere and punches it clear/over the bar. Excellent night
(side note: Extra highlight was the mad dash from about 50 or so CAFC fans at Sheffield station desperately trying to catch the last train back to Manchester, and the train being on the platform furthest from the door, and at the end of another platform. I've never seen my (at the time) 68 year old dad move so quickly. the first fans arriving distracting the guard on the train so that all the fans running could get on)
Random game that sticks in my memory was a midweek 4-2 win at Walsall 99-2000 season? Its the only time I can recall going to a game knowing we were going to win, it was such a good season, we went 2-0 up fairly easily, they pulled one back and we literally went up the other end and scored again, this happened again in the second half, we owned them. It was quite brilliant to watch.
There was a social club os the ground, very welcoming and the locals held a demo against their board, we all joined in, an excellent evening all round.
1988 - beat them 3-1 at Carrow Road - they were top of the league - Morts scored a worldie - I was in home end sat with my best mate who is a Norwich fan - we were staying Norwich for the w/e with his grandparents - went out that evening to pubs and clubs in Norwich and chatted with Ruel Fox and Rob Rosario in a club - they said Charlton had taken Norwich apart and the Norwich players were quite shocked at how well we played
1996 - beat them 2-1 - I think Bradley Allen got the winner - again with my Norwich mate, this time sat in executive seats behind the directors box with 2 of my Charlton supporting mates as well - had started drinking mid morning, and we were well tanked up when we got to ground - our seats included a free bar, so we were mess when the game started - when we scored the winner we went berserk (well 3 of us) which prompted Delia Smith to ask security to move us !!! We got moved to sit behind press seats, but that was ok, because we were able to get in players lounge somehow afterwards - we lasted about 15 mins in the players lounge before getting chucked out because of ‘unacceptable behaviour’ - in essence one of my Charlton mates throwing up all over the floor of the toilets, and me tipping half a pint of lager over my Norwich mates head
Upton Park August 2002 In no particular order of preference: Away victory Lovely summer's day Residing, as this correspondent did back then, in NW Kent I had a clutch of Hammers drinking buddies, in sincere expectation of a facile home win they'd dared me and my Addick chum to join them for post match boozing/pisstaking in their usual haunt The Central. I got a txt message at fulltime from Hammers mate suggesting that The Central would not be a sensible venue for we Charlton fans. Unbeknownst to said Boleynites my expected compadré for the fixture had bailed on me late on the Friday afternoon. I was having a rant to nobody in particular when my most shapely and appealing colleague pipes up "I've always fancied going to a proper football match, have you got a spare ticket now?" "Indeed I have but you do realise I'm going to West Ham? The visiting supporters' bit is crummy, the neighbourhood ain't special and the home supporters are mostly awful thugs on day release from Wormwood Scrubs. With the best will in the world, even the Charlton supporters we'll be surrounded by have little to recommend them to a football (ahem) 'virgin'" She reminded me she'd grown up in Eltham surrounded by Millwall's acolytes, so a few Hammers and Addicks presented few qualms. The prospects for the afternoon just got better and better Couple of liveners in the Hamilton Hall pre match, reminded me of the proximity of Brick Lane. "Do you like Indian food?" "Certainly do, why?" "Couple of streets that way are loads of curry restaurants, we can come back this way after the game, there's a terrific little boozer tucked away in Bangla Town and we can then go get some properly spicy food, whaddaya reckon?"
Vainglorious as it is to mention it here, twasn't just Jensen and Fortune who scored that day. Me colleague's curiosity for football was satiated, happily her interest in me remained enthusiastic for a good couple of years.
Bit of a random one that's not been mentioned. V Hartlepool, 2011. We absolutely battered them. Rob Elliott was in the stand with us. They also had a really good cask beer on, was about £2.60 a pint.
Upton Park August 2002 In no particular order of preference: Away victory Lovely summer's day Residing, as this correspondent did back then, in NW Kent I had a clutch of Hammers drinking buddies, in sincere expectation of a facile home win they'd dared me and my Addick chum to join them for post match boozing/pisstaking in their usual haunt The Central. I got a txt message at fulltime from Hammers mate suggesting that The Central would not be a sensible venue for we Charlton fans. Unbeknownst to said Boleynites my expected compadré for the fixture had bailed on me late on the Friday afternoon. I was having a rant to nobody in particular when my most shapely and appealing colleague pipes up "I've always fancied going to a proper football match, have you got a spare ticket now?" "Indeed I have but you do realise I'm going to West Ham? The visiting supporters' bit is crummy, the neighbourhood ain't special and the home supporters are mostly awful thugs on day release from Wormwood Scrubs. With the best will in the world, even the Charlton supporters we'll be surrounded by have little to recommend them to a football (ahem) 'virgin'" She reminded me she'd grown up in Eltham surrounded by Millwall's acolytes, so a few Hammers and Addicks presented few qualms. The prospects for the afternoon just got better and better Couple of liveners in the Hamilton Hall pre match, reminded me of the proximity of Brick Lane. "Do you like Indian food?" "Certainly do, why?" "Couple of streets that way are loads of curry restaurants, we can come back this way after the game, there's a terrific little boozer tucked away in Bangla Town and we can then go get some properly spicy food, whaddaya reckon?"
Vainglorious as it is to mention it here, twasn't just Jensen and Fortune who scored that day. Me colleague's curiosity for football was satiated, happily her interest in me remained enthusiastic for a good couple of years.
Blackpool 5 - 0 Charlton April 1972 .I was not there, ruined my wedding day though. Also Hitler's wedding anniversary and England lost to Germany at Wembley in European or World Cup qualifying game .
Millwall 0- 2 Charlton Feb 1977 (Old Den)
Wolves 2-2 Charlton November 1966
Ipswich 1- 4 Charlton February 1966
Leyton Orient 1 - 1 Charlton April 1978 saved us and them from relegation.
Arsenal 2 - 4 Charlton Feb 2004 ?
Peterborough 1- 5 Charlton Oct 2010
Chesterfield 0 - 4 Charlton March 2012
Blackpool 0 - 3 Charlton May 2015
Rotherham 1 - 4 Charlton Jan 2016 ?
Leeds 1 - 2 Charlton May 2016
Blackburn 1 - 2 Charlton Aug 2019
WBA 2 - 2 Charlton Oct 2019 for the endless noise our fans created...
Stoke 3 - 1 Charlton. Feb 2019...last attendance at an away game..damn it.
Why was losing 5-0 at Blackpool and Charlton getting relegated one of your favourite Charlton away games?
Lots of mentions for the Yeovil 1-1 in the rain, but spare a thought for the 3-2 on Boxing day 2011. Went 1-0 down to a Jonathan Obika bicycle kick, equalised twice including a Yann free kick, and then Danny Green finally scored his first Charlton goal in injury time for the win. In addition to that, the Wendies were 1-0 up against Walsall and then somehow managed to concede twice in injury time to lose 2-1. It was a very good couple of minutes right at the death. That was the point when it really felt like it was going to be a special season
Random game away to Southampton around 2007/08. I was sitting in the home fans with my dad , we had Semedo sent off after about 10 minutes i think and then spent the rest of the game pinned back. Somehow got to 90+ minutes at 0-0, then broke through Varney on the wing. With no support i though he was going to the corner to try to waste time when i see Chris Iwelumo charging through the middle trying to catch up. Varney suddenly pings it in, big chris buries the header! I jumped from my seat arms aloft, realise where I am and shout "useless bastards!" and walk out leaving my dad open mouthed on his own! Had to explain later to him I had no choice but to pretend I was annoyed!!
Also Portsmouth away in premier league when Di Canio came on and helped turn game around. Bartlett's header to win it - boom!
Lots of mentions for the Yeovil 1-1 in the rain, but spare a thought for the 3-2 on Boxing day 2011. Went 1-0 down to a Jonathan Obika bicycle kick, equalised twice including a Yann free kick, and then Danny Green finally scored his first Charlton goal in injury time for the win. In addition to that, the Wendies were 1-0 up against Walsall and then somehow managed to concede twice in injury time to lose 2-1. It was a very good couple of minutes right at the death. That was the point when it really felt like it was going to be a special season
Yeah I seem to remember our rivals all wasting winning positions whilst we'd done the opposite
Thats when I started to believe we were going to win the title
The 4-3 at St james Park against newcastle after being 3-0 down after 30 minutes was a high for me - there was a 2-1 win at Middlesborough a few years earlier when they pegged us back near the end and we came back to nick a winner when they loked more likely, but that Newcastle game was a high.
Watford away on new years day whenever that was, also one of my favourite games ever.
Closely followed by Sheff W away midweek in the FA cup about 8 years ago, right before we got knocked out by the other Sheffield who at the time were the league below us.
2 trips to Sheffield in a couple of weeks for me. Depressing.
Lots of mentions for the Yeovil 1-1 in the rain, but spare a thought for the 3-2 on Boxing day 2011. Went 1-0 down to a Jonathan Obika bicycle kick, equalised twice including a Yann free kick, and then Danny Green finally scored his first Charlton goal in injury time for the win. In addition to that, the Wendies were 1-0 up against Walsall and then somehow managed to concede twice in injury time to lose 2-1. It was a very good couple of minutes right at the death. That was the point when it really felt like it was going to be a special season
Yeah I seem to remember our rivals all wasting winning positions whilst we'd done the opposite
Thats when I started to believe we were going to win the title
Bournemouth away, we won it in the 92nd minute just as Huddersfield conceded a 92nd minute equaliser and Sheffield United let in a 92nd minute pen to lose 3-2 (after Harry Maguire had been sent off for giving the pen away). That was a hilarious minute.
1988 - beat them 3-1 at Carrow Road - they were top of the league - Morts scored a worldie - I was in home end sat with my best mate who is a Norwich fan - we were staying Norwich for the w/e with his grandparents - went out that evening to pubs and clubs in Norwich and chatted with Ruel Fox and Rob Rosario in a club - they said Charlton had taken Norwich apart and the Norwich players were quite shocked at how well we played
1996 - beat them 2-1 - I think Bradley Allen got the winner - again with my Norwich mate, this time sat in executive seats behind the directors box with 2 of my Charlton supporting mates as well - had started drinking mid morning, and we were well tanked up when we got to ground - our seats included a free bar, so we were mess when the game started - when we scored the winner we went berserk (well 3 of us) which prompted Delia Smith to ask security to move us !!! We got moved to sit behind press seats, but that was ok, because we were able to get in players lounge somehow afterwards - we lasted about 15 mins in the players lounge before getting chucked out because of ‘unacceptable behaviour’ - in essence one of my Charlton mates throwing up all over the floor of the toilets, and me tipping half a pint of lager over my Norwich mates head
The 2nd of these for me... remember the other goal being an absolute screamer on the turn from 20 yards by Mark Kinsella.
Blackpool 5 - 0 Charlton April 1972 .I was not there, ruined my wedding day though. Also Hitler's wedding anniversary and England lost to Germany at Wembley in European or World Cup qualifying game .
Millwall 0- 2 Charlton Feb 1977 (Old Den)
Wolves 2-2 Charlton November 1966
Ipswich 1- 4 Charlton February 1966
Leyton Orient 1 - 1 Charlton April 1978 saved us and them from relegation.
Arsenal 2 - 4 Charlton Feb 2004 ?
Peterborough 1- 5 Charlton Oct 2010
Chesterfield 0 - 4 Charlton March 2012
Blackpool 0 - 3 Charlton May 2015
Rotherham 1 - 4 Charlton Jan 2016 ?
Leeds 1 - 2 Charlton May 2016
Blackburn 1 - 2 Charlton Aug 2019
WBA 2 - 2 Charlton Oct 2019 for the endless noise our fans created...
Stoke 3 - 1 Charlton. Feb 2019...last attendance at an away game..damn it.
Why was losing 5-0 at Blackpool and Charlton getting relegated one of your favourite Charlton away games?
Wolves away 1976 FA cup , my first away game. We lost 3 0, my dad supported Wolves and he took me. I’m welling up writing this like a soppy cunt.
Chelsea in 88 obviously. What a day from the meet at the St Martin’s onwards
Boro away in about 86. For various reasons. Mainly we ended up stranded in Redcar for 2 days with no money and a car we crashed into a sand dune.
Liverpool . The game of ruining Stan Boardman at half time
Millwall in the snow
Boro cup quarterfinal. Great trip (RIP Duncan)
my god it’s been great.
@Greenhithe I might be wrong but I have it in my head you were completely off your nut at this one!
sure I remember sitting on the Hogswort Express waiting to leave and you sneaking in through a side entrance to the station with a box full of booze. And then in the buffet car on the way home you smashing loads of those little milk cartons on your own head.
Chelsea 88 was one of those weird games where I knew how important it was that we didn’t lose, but I had this inner confidence that we would be fine - well that’s how felt walking to Stamford Bridge - when I got there and saw the amount of people milling around and then walked onto the terrace and saw how many people were in the ground, I will admit feeling a tad nauseous !!!
That game is one of the most frightened I have been leaving a football ground, a lot of Chelsea fans were looking for trouble, and I wasn’t looking forward to the tube journey - luckily a Charlton mate of mine saw me in the crowd on the way out, we ducked out of the scrum of people and legged it to his car - on the way back, he made the mistake of going down the Old Kent Road, and there were Millwall everywhere as they had got promoted that day - luckily they didn’t notice the Charlton sticker on the rear window
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3-3 at Palarse
4-4 at Burnley
Spanners in the snow
Chesterfield back in the 70's
Every Brighton game at the Goldstone
Southend in the 70's ... cannot even remember the result, just recall we all went in the Southend home end and stayed all game
Old Trafford FA Cup 1994
Norwich on St Georges Day
Wolves in the FA Cup, we took about 10k there
Closely behind our win at Palace with Rommedahl scoring in injury time. I really liked the Dane speedster and we only saw his brilliance in flashes, so that goal and win was super sweet against the Nigels.
Finally, 2-0 at the new Den with Grant’s brace and I think it was Paul Mortimer who played like Pele in the second half, dancing around them all and leaving them flat on their arses. Scenes outside afterwards were none too pleasant, what a surprise, but so pleased I was there to see that win.
Port Vale on Easter Monday was good as well. Free travel up I think
we beat Norwich away in the night that season (at the start), and then again the season we won the Championship 99/00. Mendonca hat trick in the 97 game, Hunt hat trick in the 99 game
in the 99/00 we beat Wolves away 3-2 in Jan or Feb, part of the 12 wins a row. A classic for me as it was yet another day off sixth form. My dad drove up, with my uncle @The31YearMan. We went over Putney bridge and out via m40. About an hour or so away from Wolverhampton, we had to stop for petrol. For some reason my dad put unleaded in the tank and it was a diesel car. The panic set in and as we left the service station, the car got about 10 yards up the slip road before conking out. RAC had to be called, of course they said there’s about a 2 hour wait. @The31YearMan made the executive decision to call a cab company so that he and I could get to the game, it cost about £100 (my uncle also made a point of keeping this on the down low, as he didn’t want his wife to find out about the added expense), whilst we left my dad to wait for the RAC, in the hope he could make at least the second half.
Villa 3 - 4 Charlton Just a great day out
Beating Spurs 3-2 at White Hart Lane back in 2004 is the stand out one for me.
2-0 up at half time thanks to a Shaun Bartlett brace. He got himself sent off for handball in the second half after we went 3-0 up through Jerome Thomas, they fought back to 3-2 but we held on.
Remember the atmosphere being so good in the away end, we were right next to the spurs fans.
Just tried looking for the highlights but couldn't find them. Pretty sure it was this game when Bartlett scored that diving header, I was only a kid at the time so may be wrong.
FA Cup 4th Round 2014, on a Monday Night
Ben Hamer started over the Standard Loan (crap) keeper
Was almost thrown down several rows when Simon Church scored
Biggest moment was in injury time 2-1 up, crowded penalty box, you cannot see Ben Hamer (in his bright yellow kit) for the amount of players. One of the Sheff Wed players has a punt from outside the area, its going into the top corner, until this big yellow arm appears from nowhere and punches it clear/over the bar.
Excellent night
(side note: Extra highlight was the mad dash from about 50 or so CAFC fans at Sheffield station desperately trying to catch the last train back to Manchester, and the train being on the platform furthest from the door, and at the end of another platform. I've never seen my (at the time) 68 year old dad move so quickly. the first fans arriving distracting the guard on the train so that all the fans running could get on)
The Magic of the FA Cup
There was a social club os the ground, very welcoming and the locals held a demo against their board, we all joined in, an excellent evening all round.
1988 - beat them 3-1 at Carrow Road - they were top of the league - Morts scored a worldie - I was in home end sat with my best mate who is a Norwich fan - we were staying Norwich for the w/e with his grandparents - went out that evening to pubs and clubs in Norwich and chatted with Ruel Fox and Rob Rosario in a club - they said Charlton had taken Norwich apart and the Norwich players were quite shocked at how well we played
1996 - beat them 2-1 - I think Bradley Allen got the winner - again with my Norwich mate, this time sat in executive seats behind the directors box with 2 of my Charlton supporting mates as well - had started drinking mid morning, and we were well tanked up when we got to ground - our seats included a free bar, so we were mess when the game started - when we scored the winner we went berserk (well 3 of us) which prompted Delia Smith to ask security to move us !!! We got moved to sit behind press seats, but that was ok, because we were able to get in players lounge somehow afterwards - we lasted about 15 mins in the players lounge before getting chucked out because of ‘unacceptable behaviour’ - in essence one of my Charlton mates throwing up all over the floor of the toilets, and me tipping half a pint of lager over my Norwich mates head
In no particular order of preference:
Away victory
Lovely summer's day
Residing, as this correspondent did back then, in NW Kent I had a clutch of Hammers drinking buddies, in sincere expectation of a facile home win they'd dared me and my Addick chum to join them for post match boozing/pisstaking in their usual haunt The Central.
I got a txt message at fulltime from Hammers mate suggesting that The Central would not be a sensible venue for we Charlton fans.
Unbeknownst to said Boleynites my expected compadré for the fixture had bailed on me late on the Friday afternoon.
I was having a rant to nobody in particular when my most shapely and appealing colleague pipes up "I've always fancied going to a proper football match, have you got a spare ticket now?"
"Indeed I have but you do realise I'm going to West Ham? The visiting supporters' bit is crummy, the neighbourhood ain't special and the home supporters are mostly awful thugs on day release from Wormwood Scrubs. With the best will in the world, even the Charlton supporters we'll be surrounded by have little to recommend them to a football (ahem) 'virgin'"
She reminded me she'd grown up in Eltham surrounded by Millwall's acolytes, so a few Hammers and Addicks presented few qualms.
The prospects for the afternoon just got better and better
Couple of liveners in the Hamilton Hall pre match, reminded me of the proximity of Brick Lane. "Do you like Indian food?" "Certainly do, why?" "Couple of streets that way are loads of curry restaurants, we can come back this way after the game, there's a terrific little boozer tucked away in Bangla Town and we can then go get some properly spicy food, whaddaya reckon?"
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Vainglorious as it is to mention it here, twasn't just Jensen and Fortune who scored that day. Me colleague's curiosity for football was satiated, happily her interest in me remained enthusiastic for a good couple of years.
Also Portsmouth away in premier league when Di Canio came on and helped turn game around. Bartlett's header to win it - boom!
Thats when I started to believe we were going to win the title
Closely followed by Sheff W away midweek in the FA cup about 8 years ago, right before we got knocked out by the other Sheffield who at the time were the league below us.
2 trips to Sheffield in a couple of weeks for me. Depressing.
sure I remember sitting on the Hogswort Express waiting to leave and you sneaking in through a side entrance to the station with a box full of booze. And then in the buffet car on the way home you smashing loads of those little milk cartons on your own head.
Apologies if I’ve made all that up!
That game is one of the most frightened I have been leaving a football ground, a lot of Chelsea fans were looking for trouble, and I wasn’t looking forward to the tube journey - luckily a Charlton mate of mine saw me in the crowd on the way out, we ducked out of the scrum of people and legged it to his car - on the way back, he made the mistake of going down the Old Kent Road, and there were Millwall everywhere as they had got promoted that day - luckily they didn’t notice the Charlton sticker on the rear window