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  • GD78
    GD78 Posts: 134
    Charlton 2-2 Swansea. About 1983, I was 5 at the time. My dad took me as it looked like we were going out of business and he wanted to be able to say that he'd taken me to the valley. I seem to remember killer scoring with a twice taken penalty.

    And so it began.....
  • Deadred
    Deadred Posts: 1,514
    edited February 2012
    May have been earlier in the 1957/8 season (aged 7) but definitely remember the promotion decider V Blackburn when we only needed a draw to go straight back to the 1st Division (premiership in todays money) and lost 3-4, which meant Blackburn leap frogged us to go up with West Ham. We then languished in the 2nd & 3rd tiers for the next 28years! The Valley must have had around 50k in there that day and I distinctly remember my father sitting me on the wall in the far left hand corner at the back of the old East Tettace and spending most of the game worried I was going to fall off like Humpty Dumpty over the other side!
  • L Block
    L Block Posts: 393
    1998/1999 vs Leicester at home. bloody 0-0
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,474
    CAFC1 Brentford 0 Sept 1980 in the old third division. Got the 75 from Blackheath. Moved to next door to Griffin Park 15 years later.
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,728
    my grandson's 25/2/12 Charlton 2 Stevenage 0
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 622
    CAFC vs Bury, 1973/4???? we lost 2-0 :-(
  • cblock
    cblock Posts: 1,968
    Charlton 3 coventry 2 pre season friendly 1971. Played on a friday night , def penalty involved for us with Alan Campbell scoring it. Been hooked ever since.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,705
    1963
    i can't remember who we played but it was cold, i sat on my dads shoulders and my mum had knitted me a scarf.
  • CAFC1304
    CAFC1304 Posts: 232
    edited February 2012
    Charlton 3-1 Brentford in 2006. I was 6. It was the FA Cup and I remember my Dad used to pick me up when we scored. Jay Bothroyd scored a free-kick.
  • jdsd42
    jdsd42 Posts: 1,506
    edited February 2012
    rotherham 1962 and we lost 3-2 i was 6

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  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    Simonsens debut against Middlesbrough 1982 with my Uncle, can't really remember it....but the game that turned my into a Charlton fan was Brighton at home 1984, won 2-0, I know Martin Robinson scored, and was my first game under the cherished Covered End, back row bellowing out the songs...ahh memories, I was hooked
  • HarryHutchens
    HarryHutchens Posts: 541
    1985 at home to Barnsley and we won 5-3 after being 3-0 down i think. An aging Derek Hales came on as sub to a rapturous welcome and swung his boot whenever the ball came even vaguely near him in the penalty box.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    At home to Wolves 1968/69 season, if my memory serves me I think we lost 0-3.

    Are you sure ? Didn't think Wolves were in 2nd division 68/69
    It must have been 67/68, I have just checked some old records and we played them at The Valley on the 11/2/67

    Sorry, the old memory is not what it used to be

    :-)

  • RedMonster
    RedMonster Posts: 135
    5th December 1970. Lost 4 - 2 at home to Blackburn! The first Charlton goal I saw scored, was by Keith Peacock.
  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    5th December 1970. Lost 4 - 2 at home to Blackburn! The first Charlton goal I saw scored, was by Keith Peacock.
    My birfday!! We lost, I was born with broken collar bone, just a bad day at the office!
  • Webby
    Webby Posts: 347
    I'm guessing year as about 1977, think was home to Plymouth Argyle and we beat them 7-6, could all of been a dream and I do have a crap memory but was 35 years ago.
  • jdsd42
    jdsd42 Posts: 1,506
    I remember going to combination league games when players use to play in them to get fit - it was virtually the reserves and first team players and some great players played in them -- and we got in free

    Any one remember going to these games.
  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    I remember going to combination league games when players use to play in them to get fit - it was virtually the reserves and first team players and some great players played in them -- and we got in free

    Any one remember going to these games.
    Yep, went to a few, remember watching the Kimble brothers
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,219
    Charlton 7 Huddersfield 6. December 1957, I was hooked.
  • ElmerAddick
    ElmerAddick Posts: 13
    December 1981, against Newcastle. Won 2 nil with Simonsen scoring the second. The Newcastle team that day i think had Waddle and Beardsley plus many other household names. Was gutted Keegan was injured. Sons first game 2 nil Stevenage.

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  • simples101
    simples101 Posts: 104
    edited February 2012
    Charlton 0 Watford 2. Valley 1984. Lost but I was hooked.
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,275
    April 72, Charlton 0 Norwich 2.
    Some weeks later Charlton were relegated out of the old second division, whilst Norwich went up as champions.
    I was six years old and can clearly remember watching from right at the top of the old East terrace.
    Loved everything about it and was hooked from that day.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,209
    1985 at home to Barnsley and we won 5-3 after being 3-0 down i think. An aging Derek Hales came on as sub to a rapturous welcome and swung his boot whenever the ball came even vaguely near him in the penalty box.
    One of the Futcher twins, Ron I think, got sent off for them, which kick started our come back.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,070
    First game you had to pay to get into would have been Slough Town in the 60s, don't know who against but the great rivalry then was with Wycombe. How things change huh.

    First Charlton game was at Selhurst against Bristol City I think, probably around 1994. Was a 1-1 draw I think.
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,227
    First Charlton game was at Selhurst against Bristol City I think, probably around 1994. Was a 1-1 draw I think.
    Probably around 1991 or 92 I suspect as we were at The Valley in 94!
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,070
    edited February 2012
    First Charlton game was at Selhurst against Bristol City I think, probably around 1994. Was a 1-1 draw I think.
    Probably around 1991 or 92 I suspect as we were at The Valley in 94!
    You're right. Shame on me. It was Bristol Rovers 2-2 in January 91. Dragged along by my 5 year old son and got hooked.
    Previously a Rebel with fewer and fewer trips to see Slough each year.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,378
    Feb 1978, away at (Leyton) Orient, taken by the Cub Scouts

    Abandoned at half time when nil-nil due to a waterlogged pitch. Not the greatest first game of football ever!
  • eaststandpeter
    eaststandpeter Posts: 94
    1959/60 season Sunderland at the Valley.I went to a reserve game I think it was Nottingham Forest a week or so before and if I'm not mistaken it was the day we lost 11-1 to Villa .I recall the score being updated to my distain on the loudspeaker system.I remember being astonished at the size of the ground particulary the East Terrace.The attendance was about 200.Anyway it was the start of a long enduring love affair with Charlton.
  • Deadred
    Deadred Posts: 1,514
    edited February 2012
    1959/60 season Sunderland at the Valley.I went to a reserve game I think it was Nottingham Forest a week or so before and if I'm not mistaken it was the day we lost 11-1 to Villa .I recall the score being updated to my distain on the loudspeaker system.I remember being astonished at the size of the ground particulary the East Terrace.The attendance was about 200.Anyway it was the start of a long enduring love affair with Charlton.
    I started welling up when that result came on the vidiprinter and my Dad said to me 'don't worry son it's a missprint that should read 1-1'..........alas it was not!
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Tuesday 6th March v Colchester all being well.....

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