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Last home games being a midweek evening fixture in the last 25 years

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 58,027
edited April 2014 in General Charlton
With Watford at home next week seeing the last Valley game of the season fall unusually in midweek, thought i'd look back at how unusual it was.

Just three over times in the last 25 years has this occurred, and remember all three quite vividly:

88/89 - Derby County at home Selhurst. We won 3-0, our second home win in five days which moved us up from 18th in the table to 14th, and Harry Houdini had done it again. Remember 'staying up' echoeing round a half empty Selhurst

91/92 - Tranmere at home Upton Park - We'd been in the play-off places since 10th March for ten games, but end of season nerves were creeping in. A disappointing 1-0 defeat meant we had to go to Twerton Park and get something against Bristol Rovers to remain in the play-off positions. We didn't.

06/07 - Spurs at home - Going down, the Premiership holiday had come to an end and we got smashed at home by Defoe's Spurs. Still the longest and loudest Valley Floyd Road i've ever heard

Where have those years gone ?

Who else next week will be making it all four ticked off ? Can't be too many of us i would have thought.
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  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Done all three but won't be making the Watford game
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,907
    yep - I'd have done all 4 by next week, remember the VFR against the Spuds - hairs on the back of the neck stuff
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,697
    Went to the first two and am planning to go to Watford.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,011
    Yes did these.
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,913
    At the first two but was on holiday in Barbados for the Spurs game. Watched in a bar and the noise was unbelievable.
    Will be there Tuesday as well.
  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    Trying to find the video of VFR v spurs, really not sure why it can't be recreated as it was as loud if not louder than Stoke that day.. Geniunely didn't hear Spurs fans when they scored, wouldn't of known they'd scored if it wasnt for watching the game.. lol
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,146
    Don't remember the Tranmere game, but I was there, because I always am.
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,272
    Yes, all three and going back further ('75?) the Preston promotion game was a midweek evening. Big crowd, great atmosphere that night.
  • Red_Pete_in_Dubai
    Red_Pete_in_Dubai Posts: 2,764
    edited April 2014
    What about the promotion season under Lennie at Selhurst too? I remember us beating Fulham at home in a midweek game to all but ensure promotion to the old Division 1. We then clinched it at Carlisle a few days later.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,860
    All three plus the Preston game. Barring earthquakes/meteor strikes/getting lost on the way to the ground etc I'll be there next week as well.

    With Lennies promotion season we had another Tuesday night game v Wimbledon a week after the Fulham game, both teams were already up. It was a pretty dire game if I remember right.

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  • Charlton_Stu
    Charlton_Stu Posts: 3,883
    edited April 2014
    Big William said:

    All three plus the Preston game. Barring earthquakes/meteor strikes/getting lost on the way to the ground etc I'll be there next week as well.

    With Lennies promotion season we had another Tuesday night game v Wimbledon a week after the Fulham game, both teams were already up. It was a pretty dire game if I remember right.

    Remember the Wimbledon game 0-0, think they only needed a point as well. Just had a look Wimbledon were already up.

  • Sir Chrissy
    Sir Chrissy Posts: 609
    VFR against Spuds was unreal
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    Went to all 3. Struggling for Watford though.
  • eddieaddick
    eddieaddick Posts: 822
    Will be making it 4 out of 4
  • Red_Pete_in_Dubai
    Red_Pete_in_Dubai Posts: 2,764
    Big William said:

    All three plus the Preston game. Barring earthquakes/meteor strikes/getting lost on the way to the ground etc I'll be there next week as well.

    With Lennies promotion season we had another Tuesday night game v Wimbledon a week after the Fulham game, both teams were already up. It was a pretty dire game if I remember right.

    It's funny, but I have absolutely no recollection of that Wimbledon game at all. I can't believe that I have forgotten a game where we celebrated promotion back to the top flight for the first time in many, many years!!
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,953
    4 out of 4.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,305
    Ipswich at home in the playoffs.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,027
    you are right @iaitch‌ and i meant to deliberately write 'league game' so as to avoid it, rather than include it. Gawd knows why!!

    Absolutely brilliant night
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Will be 4/4 for me as Im here....If my memory serves me right the Derby game was May 10th...I was at the Preston game, Fulham and Wombledon....I think Fulham got relegated too.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,826
    Atletico Addick said:

    Trying to find the video of VFR v spurs, really not sure why it can't be recreated as it was as loud if not louder than Stoke that day.. Geniunely didn't hear Spurs fans when they scored, wouldn't of known they'd scored if it wasnt for watching the game.. lol

    This one and same season v Chelsea are the two loudest I've heard

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg7JoSub2pQ


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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,267
    I was at the first two, had moved over here by the third. Wasn't the Tranmere game when Aldridge claimed a goal to give him a club record, when he didn't actually touch the ball?
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,224
    Yes, at all three. But I must be getting old as the Derby game is freshest in my memory!
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,869
    I went to those three and will be at the Watford game. Against Tranmere, some herberts were giving Ronnie Moore stick just cos we were losing but I wished him well, as I'd helped buy him for CAFC. Aldridge scored the only goal I think? Was Derby an Andy Jones game?
  • chilham
    chilham Posts: 308
    mid_life_crisis said:

    Yes, all three and going back further ('75?) the Preston promotion game was a midweek evening. Big crowd, great atmosphere that night.

    That was a game and a half! Didn't get home until gone 11pm, spent ages in traffic queue on Academy Road!!

  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,733
    Was at the Derby and Spurs ones.... Spurs was the last game I saw at the Valley ... amazing nights both, the Derby game I had to get my maths homework done before I left for the game... We were singing back to the Valley a season prematurely at that game as well.. Willo, Shirtliff and Jones if I remember rightly ...
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,305
    Here's the Derby game.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNEhMnTr0w
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,339
    Was at all the games.

    Absolutely gutted after Tranmere, and I was one of the lucky 800 official Charlton fans at Twerton Park (I know we had quite a few more elsewhere in the ground :))
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,243
    So the last time we played our final home game of the season in midweek, we were relegated...
  • last_line
    last_line Posts: 582
    4 from 4 for me too.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Southendaddick said:

    Was at all the games.

    Absolutely gutted after Tranmere, and I was one of the lucky 800 official Charlton fans at Twerton Park (I know we had quite a few more elsewhere in the ground :))

    I was there too....

    Were you one of the naughty boys in the corner by any chance?

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