So, the archivist that is working with the museum (funded by the National Archives) was going through our cupboard and pulled out a box that had over a 100 pennants that presumably had being presented to Charlton over the years, going back to the 1960s.
Many would appear to be from reserve and youth team games but a few could be first team games.
It is likely that this pennant is from the game played in Holland on 1 August 1971 which ended in a 2 - 1 defeat. Keith Peacock scored our goal.
HFC Haarlem won the Dutch league in 1946 and once had a young Ruud Gullit on their books but were declared bankrupt in 2010 and so were dissolved and kicked out of the league.
They reformed and merged with an amateur side HFC Kennemerland to create a new club will be called Haarlem Kennermerland. They play in the ninth tier of Dutch football.
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It's always helpful to curators when items date themselves.
Charlton won this 1968 game 1 - 0 with a goal from Matt Tees.
Amsterdamsche Football Club Door Wilskracht Sterk (Strong Through Willpower) were champions in 1964 and reached the quarter finals of the European Cup in 1965.
Their 1964 triumph is the most recent occasion of a club without a predominantly red and white home strip (unlike recent contenders Ajax, AZ, Feyenoord, PSV and Twente) winning the Eredivisie title.
In 1972 the club merged with two other clubs to form FC Amsterdam, which themselves disbanded in 1982. DWS continue as an amateur club.
ASO Oostende is another club that no longer exists having merged with VGO Oostende to form KV Oostende in 1981.
PS Yes, I know Oostende is in Belgian but they speak Flemish and I wasn't going to start another thread on Belgian pennants.
Mike Kenning was again on the scoresheet in this 4 August 1971 friendly in Rotterdam or anywhere. Charlton won 1 - 0
The RV & AV stands for "Rotterdamse Voetbal en Atletiek Vereniging " (Rotterdam Football and Athletics Club ).
Amazingly this club is still going!
That would be Apoel Nicosia ... including a Len Glover hat-trick if I remember rightly.
Was on display in the boardroom but now in the museum.
Yes, this is now SBV Excelsior whose stadium (Stadion Woudestein) incorporates the Robin Van Persie Stand.
Much more interesting, though, is the fact that my eldest lad has played there.
I'll ask him if he might be prepared to stand in a cabinet in the Museum for an hour or two on match days.
For some reason this game was played at the Cambridge Mission Ground, New Eltham which is alongside Sparrows Lane.
Nine days later Home and Away tells us our reserves played the Kuwait National XI at the training ground and won 2- 1 (Sloan (p) and Donnelly) so extending our unbeaten run against national sides.
Nice of them to include our logo.
Loanhead is a very small town in Midlothian, near Edinburgh with a population of 6000 so this could be a Midlothian question
What we don't know is the score or goal scorers. Sadly Slade Green folded in 2009.
There is now a Slade Green Railway FC but we don't know if there is a link to the older club