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How do you feel when you meet another Charlton fan?

Huskaris
Huskaris Posts: 9,897
in General Charlton
I was just wondering this. Obviously when you are at a Charlton game you are surrounded by fans, so that doesn't really count. I mean in regular daily life.

Would you feel differently about this person if they were a work colleague for example?

I wondered this because the other day I was in a waitrose by work in High Street Kensington and I saw a guy in a Charlton training top and I nearly had a heart attack.

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  • WestSussexAddick
    WestSussexAddick Posts: 1,235
    Sorry for them
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,181
    I'm usually in shock as well and instantly think two things (which are quite similar)... (1) There's another one (2) I'm not alone in this universe
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    I was at swanley leisure centre last week with my girls at a dancing comp
    I was stood outside the fire exits having a ciggie which is right around the back of the building where the car park is when a van pulled up wuth loads of advertising all over it
    Out jumped this shaven headed fella in his mid 40s with his son and headed for the fire exit as a quick way in to the leisure centre, then I spotted the prancing lion on his door... I leant on the fire exit door and accidently on purpose closed it!
    I then had to walk all the way around the building myself to get back in but I did have a warm fuzzy schoolboy smile as I did so!
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,532
    Oh this is a psychology thingy. It's a bit like when you meet fellow dog walkers, runners etc. The dog walkers talk to the dog walkers, the runners say hi to the runners and the cyclists talk to the cyclists.

    My weirdest experience in relation to Charlton was when I saw a teenage girl in Klang (yes, that rings a bell) in Malaysia. Klang is, to say the least a bit of backwater. Don't get me wrong I don't usually approach teenage girls, but in this small town I had to ask why she supported Charlton. Her reply was something like: "oh just cheap at market" - it was in our Premiership days. She knew nothing a about Charlton.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,368
    Got chatting to one in a pub in Greenwich a few weeks back and he genuinely told me he thought we were rubbish when we won League One (101 points, club record) and awful towards the end of last season. I wish I hadn't met him. Ended in a full blown argument with me defending Powell. Had to walk away.
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,977
    What alarms me is that if you go for a drink in Charlton Village you tend to meet more Millwall than Charlton.
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,897
    thai malaysia addick said:

    Oh this is a psychology thingy. It's a bit like when you meet fellow dog walkers, runners etc. The dog walkers talk to the dog walkers, the runners say hi to the runners and the cyclists talk to the cyclists.

    My weirdest experience in relation to Charlton was when I saw a teenage girl in Klang (yes, that rings a bell) in Malaysia. Klang is, to say the least a bit of backwater. Don't get me wrong I don't usually approach teenage girls, but in this small town I had to ask why she supported Charlton. Her reply was something like: "oh just cheap at market" - it was in our Premiership days. She knew nothing a about Charlton.

    That really is brilliant.
  • Imnot Athletic
    Imnot Athletic Posts: 1,017
    edited February 2014
    Seeing as I live and work in Devon. Surprised :o)

    My son goes to 100ish pupil primary school in a little Devon village and he isn't even the only Charlton supporter in the school. One of the girls in the year below has a ST holder grandad an shes a fan

    We're everywhere I tell thee
  • Sydneyaddick
    Sydneyaddick Posts: 96
    I recently met about eight Charlton fans at the Gabba last year. Only highlight of the test mind you!
  • scabbyhorse
    scabbyhorse Posts: 2,564
    The Red Robin said:

    Got chatting to one in a pub in Greenwich a few weeks back and he genuinely told me he thought we were rubbish when we won League One (101 points, club record) and awful towards the end of last season. I wish I hadn't met him. Ended in a full blown argument with me defending Powell. Had to walk away.

    Wasnt me but i have the same view

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  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    This is my usual reaction
  • mickc
    mickc Posts: 575
    paulsturgess said:

    What alarms me is that if you go for a drink in Charlton Village you tend to meet more Millwall than Charlton.

    That's the case everywhere.
    It doesn't reflect the appalling attendances at The Den.

  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,976
    edited February 2014
    I have been to America twice and each time i have met a Charlton fan . Once in Disney's magic Kingdom and the other on Santa Barbara pier in California. It's a small (small) world.
  • Charlton_Road_James
    Charlton_Road_James Posts: 335
    I was out dogging last summer near Orpington when I saw another person there wearing an old Joma Charlton shirt. I would of started a conversation up but was busy at the time.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,181
    She wasnt the one in the Charlton shirt then James? lol!
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,352
    Now don't get me started... ;-)
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,325
    I have a signed shirt on the wall in the guesthouse and it does mean that any Charlton fans that arrive do tend to make themselves known. Apart from a couple of guys who've booked knowing that Bangkokaddick on CL actually runs a guesthouse in Phuket, the number is pretty low: three or four in nine years, including a Swede! But lots of people seem to have a soft spot for us, including some Millwall fans I had in recently.

    Like Thaimalaysiaaddick, I have seen a couple of CAFC shirts on locals,including the famous ecru coloured one.

    I know one other fan living in Phuket.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,463
    Bumped into someone wearing the old ecru top at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Couldn't really chat to him as that's not really the "done thing" in an art gallery, so I just smiled, nodded and carried on.

    Trouble was, we were going round the museum at roughly the same pace and in the same direction. Which meant I kept bumping I into him. Which meant another smile and nod.

    It wasn't until later that I realised that, while I knew he must have been a Charlton fan, he had no idea I was. He didn't even know I'm British. So he must have wondered who this crazy Dutch guy was, following him round, grinning.

    Amsterdam, eh?
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,156
    Pull my hat over my eyes, look down and walk on by. Freaks :-)
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Met a guy who supported Charlton in the 50's a couple of weeks ago at the Mariners v Perth Glory match.....he was overjoyed as he said I was the first Charlton fan he had come across in 40 years. However, wandering around Australia over the years I've met dozens.

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  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,382
    I think poor f****r.....oh hold on!
  • Addick_in_Exile
    Addick_in_Exile Posts: 403
    ForeverAddickted said:

    I'm usually in shock as well and instantly think two things (which are quite similar)... (1) There's another one (2) I'm not alone in this universe

    Seeing as I live in Seattle. I would feel the same as "ForeverAddickted"
  • D_F_T
    D_F_T Posts: 1,154
    Usually embarrassed!
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,192
    I often tell people that the worst thing about being a Charlton fan is other Charlton fans

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