I always love seeing someone in a Charlton shirt when I'm not expecting it. Perhaps somewhere to log sightings...
My most recent:-
26th August 2021 - Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (Back of shirt - "Shane 12". I think they sort of heard my "come on you reds"...)
About this time last year, son, mum and dad (son in shirt) queuing for a burger at Five Guys in West Quay, Southampton.
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Amazing how many of them turn around.
Hola fellow Addick.
later that day I was out for dinner and Francis Coquelin was in the same restaurant.
On the bus from Lisbon airport into the city and there was the two of us and a young lad in a Galway United shirt. We asked him where he was staying and he dug into his bag for a Youth Hostel world directory…and two Charlton programmes came out as well!! Myself and pal just looked at each other in amazement and let him know we were both fans, but what was his story. He was a member of the Charlton Irish supporters club, which we didn’t even know existed at that stage.
Ended up staying at the hostel, being introduced to a load of others over for the game who walked us round to the Portuguese FA office and we had a place to stay and tickets for the game within an hour of landing, thanks to that chance meeting.
And I yet another, not unexpectedly on a train to LGW to get the flight for Op Riverside (not sure if that was what it was called but you'll know what I mean) who had just got back from the DRC and had been in the bar drinking with my colleague there the week before.
I was also surprised to see a sticker in the back of a car where my aunt and uncle lived in Darras Hall, Ponteland - very much Newcastle territory and where a lot of the players live (in the big houses, not in their road!)
Aside of any debauchery, of which I have never enquired, she met some 'lads' whilst out on the piss (them not her of course). She got chatting to a lad and bizarrely they talked football. As it happens it was a football romance made in heaven, finding out they were both Addicks. Taking the joyous disbelief even further, the two got matching 'Roland Out' tattoo's which they wore for the duration of the holiday. The following season we bumped into said teenage lad at a Charlton game up North, Preston I think (me sizing him up for respectability) and she was somewhat embarrassed to say hello, again.
When my aunt passed away, my uncle decided to buy himself a sailing boat as it was something he'd always wanted. One time he asked if my mum and her husband fancied a week in the Lake District with the intention on taking his boat. Mum agreed and off they went. On one of the first days there, mum was sat on the jetty reading a book, while my uncle and mums husband were out on the boat, not a soul about, when a family walked up. It was an elderly couple with adult son or daughter who had learning difficulties, anyway, mum started talking to them and it turned out they were from Bexleyheath (mum lived in Mottingham at the time and uncle was Barnehurst). If that weren't strange enough, on the way home a week or so later, they pulled into the services around the Midlands area, and as they walked in, the very same family were walking out
Sadly you can only give one LOL - I'd like to give a second LOL for the very good bell pun - I think you may have used that one before but it was very appealing.
when I was a kid I was in Turkey on holiday. I was on a Charlton towel and a chap came up and spoke to my old man about it…turns out it was Richard Collins the former director
finally about 2 years ago in Disneyworld I saw a lad in a Charlton shirt. I wandered up and said “We want Roland Out”
his face was a bit confused at first 😃😃