Reading through this thread I can remember going to the vast majority of most people’s worse games. I don’t this is coincidence it’s probably more like we have been generally rubbish for much of my time on this planet.
No, you're not getting away with that. If you've been at so many of the worst games then the statistics don't lie - the crap on the field was all your fault As so many lifers will tell you: correlation is the same as causation i.e. when two things happen at the same time more than a couple of times it ain't coincidence anymore Solution: never go again and the rest of us are spared Valley shite forevermore
I’m going to keep that in mind and give it another go next season. I won’t let you lot be happy.
All the Anglo Italian Cup matches at the Valley. Must have been around 93/94. It was rather exciting to watch us play Italian teams with fancy names. We were dreadful in every match. I was too young to attend the away matches, but from what i've heard we were equally as dreadful, with the exception of a Leaburn(?) goal.
Ancona away, remember it well. Good trip.
I flew out on the Saturday, the following day we were away to Luton.
As these were the days long before mobiles, the usual thing was to go to mainline stations in big cities and hope that they had papers from back home. It was not until we got into a pub with Charlton in before the game that I found out the score.
Slightly odd choice to highlight amongst so many shite games- but stands out for the utter pointlessness of going to the game, the shite team and the fact that the Mancs were barely interested. 2-0 often seems like the most dismissive result you can get. Park and Fletcher scored because nobody else could be bothered to. We never threatened in any way shape or form. Remember sitting there being very bored and wondering what was the point of going anymore. The ground was virtually silent apart from the occasional abusive comment from our bit and yawning from them. Anyway roll on Mansfield and Wrexham.
Slightly odd choice to highlight amongst so many shite games- but stands out for the utter pointlessness of going to the game, the shite team and the fact that the Mancs were barely interested. 2-0 often seems like the most dismissive result you can get. Park and Fletcher scored because nobody else could be bothered to. We never threatened in any way shape or form. Remember sitting there being very bored and wondering what was the point of going anymore. The ground was virtually silent apart from the occasional abusive comment from our bit and yawning from them. Anyway roll on Mansfield and Wrexham.
Marcus Bent up front on his own, had a header from a cross or a corner that he skied was about the highlight of our attacking threat
Most of the absolute stinkers have been mentioned already, but a personal one which sticks in my mind is the 3-1 home defeat to Grimsby in 1992. We had a really good Charlton team having a brilliant season under Gritt and Curbs, so completely unexpected.
I remember getting to Upton Park late as the tubes were screwed up (it was a Tuesday evening match), but when I got there we proceeded to go 3-0 down in the first half in front of 3,658 spectators. Great og by Barness though.
For me two were are performances against non league Dagenham and Redbridge in the FA cup. A terrible performance from premiership players, that goes for both the home game and the away reply.
Cup game are slightly different, as even the best teams (as Curbs found) can have off days in the cup, due to concentrating more on the league, and being a bit off it. Dismal league performances hurt more.
I know this doesn't really belong on this thread, but reading about the worst matches and reliving some of the painful memories I had to watch something that made me feel positive about Charlton and I got a bit emotional watching this, as it's probably my most favourite match in recent memory that I can think back to, and for me it truly represents what being Charlton is all about:
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Slightly odd choice to highlight amongst so many shite games- but stands out for the utter pointlessness of going to the game, the shite team and the fact that the Mancs were barely interested. 2-0 often seems like the most dismissive result you can get. Park and Fletcher scored because nobody else could be bothered to. We never threatened in any way shape or form. Remember sitting there being very bored and wondering what was the point of going anymore.
The ground was virtually silent apart from the occasional abusive comment from our bit and yawning from them.
Anyway roll on Mansfield and Wrexham.
That was Gold Award stuff tonight.
Win or lose (and we’re doing too much of the latter at the moment) we’re an absolutely abysmal team to watch this season.
Northwich Victoria in the FA Cup was horrendous.
As a cumulative, Colchester, Huddersfield and Hull in a week will not be beaten.