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Probably the Greatest ever game….

Second only to Wembley 1998 .CAFC

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  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,448
    Behave
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,823
    Oh come on...France were rubbish for the first hour. Yes, it was dramatic, but never the best game.
  • Not a touch on 5-4 v Cardiff.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    The Ipswich 4-4 this season was better.
  • Or 7-6 v Huddersfield…
  • Or 4-3 v Aston Villa…
  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,637
    Or the first Charlton Sunderland final
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,857
    edited December 2022
    The Ipswich 4-4 this season was better.
    As was the 4-4 with Ipswich in 1990 (?)
  • And the 5-5 draw with Bristol rovers late 70s
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  • I saw from 60 minutes onwards.  What drama, I thought the frogs would go on and win once they equalised but fair play to Messitina.
    For a game of this importance this was up there.
    I cannot stand international football but do realise my apathy is in the .0% minority.
    As an aside, St Andrews '87 for me.
  • There is no question that our 7-6 win against Huddersfield in 1957 (65 years ago this weekend) is the greatest match ever. To come back from 5-1 down with 10 men and then to win in the dying seconds will never be equalled let alone beaten. No other professional match in British history has ever seen a team score 6 goals and lose. A national newspaper named it the greatest match in the last millennium. The match ball is displayed in the Charlton Museum, so be proud of your club's achievements, especially when we are currently so much in the doldrums.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    The Battle of the Bridge.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    It’s was good for a World Cup final but not even in the top 100 games of all time . 
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    edited December 2022
    All of the greatest games in retrospect don’t have the sort of analysis that looks into “the first 20 minutes” or “it was a bit stale after the break”.

    In 30 years time, people won’t care about that granular detail. It will be about the goals, the superstar names, the iconic images, the historical context - and the fairytale ending.

    And if you base it on those ‘romantic’ elements, it’s right up there. 
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,824
    Or 4-3 v Aston Villa…
    This 
  • I saw from 60 minutes onwards.  What drama, I thought the frogs would go on and win once they equalised but fair play to Messitina.
    For a game of this importance this was up there.
    I cannot stand international football but do realise my apathy is in the .0% minority.
    As an aside, St Andrews '87 for me.
    Hmm, do you not think that there's a charm to international football: can't buy players (on the whole), only train together a few weeks a year, few games a year, relatively little money, playing for pride? I think it is quite pure.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,338
    2019 Headingley Ashes 
  • Definitely the best WC final I have seen, and my first was 1974, but not the best game. Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle was the best game I've seen on TV. Best live game was the first play off v Sunderland. 
  • It’s was good for a World Cup final but not even in the top 100 games of all time . 
    Italy v Brazil in '82?
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  • I saw from 60 minutes onwards.  What drama, I thought the frogs would go on and win once they equalised but fair play to Messitina.
    For a game of this importance this was up there.
    I cannot stand international football but do realise my apathy is in the .0% minority.
    As an aside, St Andrews '87 for me.
    Hmm, do you not think that there's a charm to international football: can't buy players (on the whole), only train together a few weeks a year, few games a year, relatively little money, playing for pride? I think it is quite pure.
    F*** 'em, mercenary money grabbing b*******.

    Club before country all day long.
  • I saw from 60 minutes onwards.  What drama, I thought the frogs would go on and win once they equalised but fair play to Messitina.
    For a game of this importance this was up there.
    I cannot stand international football but do realise my apathy is in the .0% minority.
    As an aside, St Andrews '87 for me.
    Hmm, do you not think that there's a charm to international football: can't buy players (on the whole), only train together a few weeks a year, few games a year, relatively little money, playing for pride? I think it is quite pure.
    F*** 'em, mercenary money grabbing b*******.

    Club before country all day long.
    Funny, assuming you are joking. If not, then I don't get it.
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,839
    France losing on penalties 😂 😂 😂  
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    It’s was good for a World Cup final but not even in the top 100 games of all time . 
    But of the top 100 games of all time it was, probably, number 1. 
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    If there are 100 games that are better than that, then they certainly wouldn’t have carried anywhere near the gravitas going into it.

    Been a long time since we had a game that felt absolutely seismic in the history of football going into it. The fact that it then went and over-delivered to that sort of extent is astounding.

    Can count on one hand a game of that importance that truly lived up to the hype.
  • It was pony ffs.
    But had an hilarious ending 🤣🤣
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    City v Spurs in the CL was better than that.
  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,254
    Not even close to the greatest game ever.

    France didn’t have a single meaningful attempt on goal for over 70 minutes. 
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,839
    Mametz said:
    Not even close to the greatest game ever.

    France didn’t have a single meaningful attempt on goal for over 70 minutes. 
    And then lost on penalties 😂 😂 😂 
  • BobK
    BobK Posts: 88
    If your old enough to have seen England win the 1966 World Cup, and are an England supporter, this must be it.