Blackpool 0-1 midweek might have been Karl Robinson's last game in charge or one of them. They should have battered us out of sight and it took a last minute bad clearance from Amos out of goal for them to win it. Nothing like travelling home on the coach in the middle of the night reflecting how our season was rapidly falling apart. Probably a very depressing post match write up on the thread on here too!
A mention to the time we got stuffed 0-4 at Barnsley 96/97 when they got promoted that season.
Also a mention to the Wigan 1-2 with Nego, Reza, Thuram etc all playing. Can still remember looking at the scoreboard showing 91:30 played and us 1-0 up yet still managing to lose it from that point! From thinking we'd somehow fluked a win to the feeling of the expected pre match loss within minutes.
The Blackpool away game in 2018 was definitely one of the worst fixtures because the original game was postponed 30 minutes before kick off. Fair play to anyone who made the journey to the rearranged mid week fixture to watch us lose in the last minute
Worst Middlesbrough 1-0 December 2019. Was at the 4-0 Millwall game with my Millwall supporting brother in law and nephew. Stood in the home end as the spanners refuse to sit. They block the aisles, fire exits, ignore the police etc. Watched 3 goals hit the back of the net in front of me. Jumped up and down with the celebrating Millwall supporters cursing at the top of my voice. Perfectly safe as they thought I was just another millwall supporter celebrating. You useless shower of f...g b....s was used quite a lot by me everytime charlton let them score.
Far too many to mention..but just a few come to mind..
Colchester away 81 lost 2-0..they were 2 up if I recall in 10 mins and Halesy got sent off...
Colchester cup 2-1 defeat a couple of years ago. Amazing thing I was back in Basingstoke at 7, almost the same time if I was coming home from the valley.
Sheff Utd cup.
Chester 4-0 in 81 we were top, they were bottom banker away, naturally we lost. Only highlight was the guy trying to pinch the corner flag.
Any palace or Millwall defeat.
Shrewsbury 4-3 Holmes hat trick. Should of scored 10 that night. Followed that by losing 2-1 at Northampton a few days later.
Bonus defeat....
Bury away 2-0 defeat under Russell Slade, another grim game in our history, and some of our fans beng pricks after the game. And we have a few.
Went to Bexleyheath for the coach... My dad didn't feel well so we turned around and went home. After a couple of hours he felt better and said let's drive down and we might make it from Dartford in time.
I drove like a fecking maniac and got in the ground five minutes before kickoff. Dreadful game with Tony Lange being very generous with cockups.
Not a word was spoken on the way home.. Oh the spirit of Christmas!
Jeez, I remember that one - it was an 11am KO, the bloody coach left Bexleyheath at about 6am, it was biting cold and we were 3-0 down at half time. Complete horror show.
coventry away about 1988 - got to euston, got caught with child tickets, had to re buy adult one's, game started, drab open terrace, keeper - bolder? got sent off - gritt in goal, 3-0 down after half hour or so - got chased all the way back to the station - crap day put an end to our regular away travel - been a glory boy away merchant ever since - promotion run ins, london derbies and big games generally- the braed and butter every other week regardless only lasted a few years
1st game of season 4th sept 2010 away to Exeter never had a shot on goal and lost to a 90th min given away by Alan mcormack i think?? Had a right rant on talk sport while at the services on the way home
None that really offend too much from my first 15 odd years - many, many, many lowlights to choose from from the latter 15.
2006 - Chesterfield away league cup under that tosser Dowie - think we won on pens, and quite enjoyed the day out, but it was a dire showing against a lower division team and stands out to me in hindsight as a realisation we were at the beginning of the end (although I never imagined how low we were heading).
2009 - Wednesday 1-4 - the last loss in what I think remains our club record winless run. Freezing and the future leaked particularly bleak and hopeless.
2010 - scum 0-4 - no words
2011 - Dagenham 0-2 - all time low. I’ve been to a hell of a lot of miserable places up north as well - Dagenham is right up there with some of those shitholes.
2015 - Watford 0-5 - Luzon, Meire.
Special mention in general to Gills and Wimbledon who, alongside Millwall, despite being easy local trips with relatively appealing pre and post match drinking involved, always manage to be incredibly unenjoyable experiences, even if we don’t lose.
Worst Middlesbrough 1-0 December 2019. Was at the 4-0 Millwall game with my Millwall supporting brother in law and nephew. Stood in the home end as the spanners refuse to sit. They block the aisles, fire exits, ignore the police etc. Watched 3 goals hit the back of the net in front of me. Jumped up and down with the celebrating Millwall supporters cursing at the top of my voice. Perfectly safe as they thought I was just another millwall supporter celebrating. You useless shower of f...g b....s was used quite a lot by me everytime charlton let them score.
Did you enjoy dad dancing to rocking all over the world?
There are truly some bad ones to choose from, infinitely more bad away games than great away day wins.
The Gillingham Cup game was daft, I got thrown out with another Charlton fan after their second goal and we both watched the rest of it in the livingstone arms round the corner. We were shit that day but I could handle it knowing that there was daylight between us.
Getting tanked 5-1 by Tottenham i thought would be the lowest away performance id see in 2006. I can't put into words without really explosive vulgarity how much I hate Tottenham fans, I hated them even more afterwards for the patronising compassion a lot showed on the way out of the ground that day. Oh how unaware of how much I should have revelled in defeats like that I was. I'd been spoiled by how well we played in games there.
Without equal the 4 nil at the shitbox is the worst, I don't think I've ever been angrier, about anything, ever. Then being locked in a pen afterwards was only lightened by watching @WSS escape. The police acted like idiots and inflamed things a couple of times when everyone there just wanted to fuck off home to stick pins in voodoo dolls of evert single member of playing staff connected to Charlton that day.
There have been so so many others where we have just not turned up but my default setting to an away fixture is always the same as my approach to going into a casino. Expect nothing, expect to lose and anything else is a glorious, rapturous bonus to be savoured.
Apart from derby games, for so long our players just don't turn up for them mentally or physically
Worst Middlesbrough 1-0 December 2019. Was at the 4-0 Millwall game with my Millwall supporting brother in law and nephew. Stood in the home end as the spanners refuse to sit. They block the aisles, fire exits, ignore the police etc. Watched 3 goals hit the back of the net in front of me. Jumped up and down with the celebrating Millwall supporters cursing at the top of my voice. Perfectly safe as they thought I was just another millwall supporter celebrating. You useless shower of f...g b....s was used quite a lot by me everytime charlton let them score.
Did you enjoy dad dancing to rocking all over the world?
All the Millwall fans were dancing. I enjoyed the experience and the roudiness. Then again being from N Ireland it was like being at an Irish League game only a better standard of football.
That Bury defeat on the opening day of the season was a shocker.
Indeed it was. I am sure Pearce dragged someone down as he does to give away a pen, and can't recall his name, but the centre half telling us to f off if we didn't like it, as we were walking out.
Worst Middlesbrough 1-0 December 2019. Was at the 4-0 Millwall game with my Millwall supporting brother in law and nephew. Stood in the home end as the spanners refuse to sit. They block the aisles, fire exits, ignore the police etc. Watched 3 goals hit the back of the net in front of me. Jumped up and down with the celebrating Millwall supporters cursing at the top of my voice. Perfectly safe as they thought I was just another millwall supporter celebrating. You useless shower of f...g b....s was used quite a lot by me everytime charlton let them score.
Did you enjoy dad dancing to rocking all over the world?
All the Millwall fans were dancing. I enjoyed the experience and the roudiness. Then again being from N Ireland it was like being at an Irish League game only a better standard of football.
You’re always welcome to come over to the dark side. I sense you have a bit of it in you.
Nottingham Forest in the league end of the 90's. Addicks stuck in a corner in the lower tier. Charlton got tamely done over on the pitch. All the while, beer, food and litter rained down on us from the scum buckets in the upper tier and the overtime sponging pisstakers in blue chucked out any Charlton fan who had the temerity to complain about it.
Any visit to Goodison Park, shit ground, shit neighbourhood, scummy scummy supporters with strong racist element and rarely anything to enjoy on the pitch.
Southend's Roots Hall, a toilet that nobody can be bothered to flush, Boxing Day about 1994 or 5, freezing cold, Charlton were ropey, especially at the back, Stuart Balmer in particular got pelters, he got the right hump when one wag suggested he needed to "sober up, Christmas Day was yesterday" to cap a thoroughly dispiriting few hours Mark Robson got a red card for catching the ball as it was flying out of play, he possibly had one foot on the touchline & the ball was millimetres from being out of play but the officials deemed it a sending off offense, not the minor infringement it was rooted in a moment's inattention not a deliberate act of rule breaking. Whoever the ref was that day would be in good company today with the fucktards Lee Mason and Mike Dean
Recalling just those miserable escapades makes us wonder just why we've spent so much of the last 28 years volunteering for this shit, at our own considerable expense?
Got pumped 5-2 and Van Hooijdonk bullied us all afternoon! Remember that as a little boy! Remember the coins coming down from above too!
@Covered End has it right with the Full Members Cup Final.
But if I had to choose a 2nd it would be away to Wolves in the cup in 98. A great season and a cup replay was not needed. I did virtually all games in those days so straight into work on the Monday after the first game to book time off. Could only get the afternoon off, so straight to Euston from work.
All went wrong on the pitch, Holmes being crocked for life by thug Muscat, denied a blatant back pass at 1 down, individual errors for all 3 of their goals, Mark Bright getting sent off when he did not need to get involved.
Straight back by train, in bed for 3am, back in work for 8am
Went to Bexleyheath for the coach... My dad didn't feel well so we turned around and went home. After a couple of hours he felt better and said let's drive down and we might make it from Dartford in time.
I drove like a fecking maniac and got in the ground five minutes before kickoff. Dreadful game with Tony Lange being very generous with cockups.
Not a word was spoken on the way home.. Oh the spirit of Christmas!
Jeez, I remember that one - it was an 11am KO, the bloody coach left Bexleyheath at about 6am, it was biting cold and we were 3-0 down at half time. Complete horror show.
The funny thing about that day was the grief my dad got by mum all week for even considering leaving her on boxing day.
You can imagine when she saw us return home early made her think she'd won the day and made dad feel sufficiently guilty... only to see him leave again half hour later!!
The look on my mums face was a picture of Hannibal Lecktor holding several knives at our decision. Of course when we got home she gave it back large to both of us....
Things were never the same after that as they got separate beds🤣.
None that really offend too much from my first 15 odd years - many, many, many lowlights to choose from from the latter 15.
2006 - Chesterfield away league cup under that tosser Dowie - think we won on pens, and quite enjoyed the day out, but it was a dire showing against a lower division team and stands out to me in hindsight as a realisation we were at the beginning of the end (although I never imagined how low we were heading).
2009 - Wednesday 1-4 - the last loss in what I think remains our club record winless run. Freezing and the future leaked particularly bleak and hopeless.
2010 - scum 0-4 - no words
2011 - Dagenham 0-2 - all time low. I’ve been to a hell of a lot of miserable places up north as well - Dagenham is right up there with some of those shitholes.
2015 - Watford 0-5 - Luzon, Meire.
Special mention in general to Gills and Wimbledon who, alongside Millwall, despite being easy local trips with relatively appealing pre and post match drinking involved, always manage to be incredibly unenjoyable experiences, even if we don’t lose.
Was at the Chesterfield cup game & think Jimmy Floyd Roundabout was playing for us. After the game Dowie & players came over to the fans and remember ‘captain’ going mental at Dowie
Has to be the Watford 5-0 match for me. Special mention to my first ever away match as a 7 year old in Blackburn losing 4-1, and a few dire games last season at Wigan, Stoke and Sheffield Wednesday. Thinking about it thats half of the away matches I've actually been to, not a great record.
Russell Slade's last game , a 3-0 loss at Swindon with Crofts , Foley and Jackson as our midfield was grim . Surprised at what a shithole Swindon was .
Me and a mate getting a bit of a hiding at Norwich away. It was genuinely embarrassing as getting a black eye at football can be seen as a medal of honour if it happens somewhere like Leeds but not cuddly, lovely Norwich. My mate was even more embarrassed as he is a Tottenham fan and as was the case in those days if I didn't want to go to aways on my jack I'd rope one of my mates along. He's hard as nails too, I always used to fancy myself in a punch up but there was too many of them and we had to take our lumps, neither of us ran away.
Another one was getting arrested at Tottenham after getting a dig off a Tottenham fan, whacked him back and grabbed by police who watched it all, got bitten by a police dog at West Ham and fortunately for me the handler was bang on the case and no serious harm was done apart from a ruined pair of diesel jeans because those things I'm confident would kill a grown man if they chose to. Both of these were tempered by us winning.
I wasn’t at the 5-0 defeat away to Huddersfield, but the 6-0 at Hull was terrible.
Didn’t go to the 4-0 defeat at Millwall but that would’ve been horrible (last season was bad enough).
The 1-0 defeat to Blackpool in Feb 2018 was dire. God, there’s been so many terrible away games. Col Utd in the cup before the Huddersfield defeat in 2016 was crap. The people that did that, H’field then Hull deserve a medal.
Love all the games from the early 90s and before as it was just before my time. My dad was taking me to home and away games from the late 80s, but didn’t get to see the famous 4-3 win at Newcastle
Huddersfield 5-0 when Henderson was hung out to dry in front of the press as Fromage Carol was about to get the tin tac. This was followed four days later by a 6-0 drubbing at Hull starring the infamous Rhys Williams at CB in Riga’s first match of his second spell
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Colchester away 81 lost 2-0..they were 2 up if I recall in 10 mins and Halesy got sent off...
Colchester cup 2-1 defeat a couple of years ago. Amazing thing I was back in Basingstoke at 7, almost the same time if I was coming home from the valley.
Sheff Utd cup.
Chester 4-0 in 81 we were top, they were bottom banker away, naturally we lost. Only highlight was the guy trying to pinch the corner flag.
Any palace or Millwall defeat.
Shrewsbury 4-3 Holmes hat trick. Should of scored 10 that night. Followed that by losing 2-1 at Northampton a few days later.
Bonus defeat....
Bury away 2-0 defeat under Russell Slade, another grim game in our history, and some of our fans beng pricks after the game. And we have a few.
Had a right rant on talk sport while at the services on the way home
2010 - scum 0-4 - no words
2011 - Dagenham 0-2 - all time low. I’ve been to a hell of a lot of miserable places up north as well - Dagenham is right up there with some of those shitholes.
Special mention in general to Gills and Wimbledon who, alongside Millwall, despite being easy local trips with relatively appealing pre and post match drinking involved, always manage to be incredibly unenjoyable experiences, even if we don’t lose.
0-0
Went to extra time.
0-0
Went to penalties.
Lost 3-1 (Pens missed by Jackson, Racon and K.Reid).
It was a mid-week freezing cold night.
The Gillingham Cup game was daft, I got thrown out with another Charlton fan after their second goal and we both watched the rest of it in the livingstone arms round the corner. We were shit that day but I could handle it knowing that there was daylight between us.
Getting tanked 5-1 by Tottenham i thought would be the lowest away performance id see in 2006. I can't put into words without really explosive vulgarity how much I hate Tottenham fans, I hated them even more afterwards for the patronising compassion a lot showed on the way out of the ground that day. Oh how unaware of how much I should have revelled in defeats like that I was. I'd been spoiled by how well we played in games there.
Without equal the 4 nil at the shitbox is the worst, I don't think I've ever been angrier, about anything, ever. Then being locked in a pen afterwards was only lightened by watching @WSS escape. The police acted like idiots and inflamed things a couple of times when everyone there just wanted to fuck off home to stick pins in voodoo dolls of evert single member of playing staff connected to Charlton that day.
There have been so so many others where we have just not turned up but my default setting to an away fixture is always the same as my approach to going into a casino. Expect nothing, expect to lose and anything else is a glorious, rapturous bonus to be savoured.
Apart from derby games, for so long our players just don't turn up for them mentally or physically
But if I had to choose a 2nd it would be away to Wolves in the cup in 98. A great season and a cup replay was not needed. I did virtually all games in those days so straight into work on the Monday after the first game to book time off. Could only get the afternoon off, so straight to Euston from work.
All went wrong on the pitch, Holmes being crocked for life by thug Muscat, denied a blatant back pass at 1 down, individual errors for all 3 of their goals, Mark Bright getting sent off when he did not need to get involved.
Straight back by train, in bed for 3am, back in work for 8am
You can imagine when she saw us return home early made her think she'd won the day and made dad feel sufficiently guilty... only to see him leave again half hour later!!
The look on my mums face was a picture of Hannibal Lecktor holding several knives at our decision. Of course when we got home she gave it back large to both of us....
Things were never the same after that as they got separate beds🤣.
Another one was getting arrested at Tottenham after getting a dig off a Tottenham fan, whacked him back and grabbed by police who watched it all, got bitten by a police dog at West Ham and fortunately for me the handler was bang on the case and no serious harm was done apart from a ruined pair of diesel jeans because those things I'm confident would kill a grown man if they chose to. Both of these were tempered by us winning.
Love all the games from the early 90s and before as it was just before my time. My dad was taking me to home and away games from the late 80s, but didn’t get to see the famous 4-3 win at Newcastle