A day I will always remember and was very young standing on the East Terrace. I think we played palace a couple of weeks later and drew 1-1 at their ground but remember going to the next home game against Mansfield and has become my passion in terms of following Charlton from attending that day in 1977 against spurs and witnessing that win.
If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
It was the Stoke game, the final game. The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand. Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.
Just to repeat Chelski took the covered end in 76 .1-1 draw
They didn't take all of it. I was in there with hundreds.
So was I.On the left side with Pittsy, Charlie Porsche and the Welling mob
There were a lot of Charlton on the left including our lot from Cherry Orchard
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I think we played palace a couple of weeks later and drew 1-1 at their ground but remember going to the next home game against Mansfield and has become my passion in terms of following Charlton from attending that day in 1977 against spurs and witnessing that win.