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Charlton curses

hungaroaddick
hungaroaddick Posts: 93
in General Charlton
With Béla Guttmann's 1962 curse that Benfica would never win a European trophy in one hundred years striking for an eighth time last night, I wondered whether Charlton had ever been at the wrong end of a spot of ill will.

It would also be interesting to know who was responsible for some the curses we are all aware Charlton are under. Beating Millwall immediately comes to mind...

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,287
    Yes that witch at Southampton. They'd had a horrific run of defeats at home until they got a white witch in to perform some ritual. Step right up Charlton Athletic who were duly beaten.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,045
    What about the curse of the Charlton shirt sponsor?
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    The curse of the crap striker?
  • markmc68
    markmc68 Posts: 1,593
    Charlton have made an attempt in recent years to cure a curse that has hung around the club for a couple of years. In the clubs quest to rid the curse of the two bob striker they decided to call in The Church. To date the curse is still hanging around the club.
  • JOKaneCAFC
    JOKaneCAFC Posts: 46
    The curse of Iain Dowie: "You shall never play in the Premier League again"
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,900
    edited May 2014
    The curse of the dodgy duo;

    'Why should you expect to have a decent strike force, pitch and the nucleus of a Championship team at the end of a season when we have done a runner, to hell with the lot of you'

    TJ & MS xxx
  • iainambler
    iainambler Posts: 966
    We've possibly sent a few curses the other way, some of which have rebounded back on us - "ETCYT" being one I can immediately think of. ;-)
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    The curse of "Operation..............."
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,384
    Charlton curses...

    "What, both Church and Green are playing? Oh for f***'s sake!"
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,961
    Seriously my late dad used to tell my that The Valley is/was the subject of some kind of gypsy curse. He always mentioned that when the club had been victim of misfortune at various times.

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  • iainambler
    iainambler Posts: 966
    Lazy_eye_metaphor said:

    Seriously my late dad used to tell my that The Valley is/was the subject of some kind of gypsy curse. He always mentioned that when the club had been victim of misfortune at various times.

    To quote from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: "I f***ing hate Pikeys......"
  • Nicholas
    Nicholas Posts: 7,667
    iainambler said:

    Lazy_eye_metaphor said:

    Seriously my late dad used to tell my that The Valley is/was the subject of some kind of gypsy curse. He always mentioned that when the club had been victim of misfortune at various times.

    To quote from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: "I f***ing hate Pikeys......"
    You mean Snatch :)

  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    If you think supporting charlton is a club that carries a curse...try being a moth, they only live for a day :)
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    The curse of being a Charlton supporter.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,864
    Lazy_eye_metaphor said:

    Seriously my late dad used to tell my that The Valley is/was the subject of some kind of gypsy curse. He always mentioned that when the club had been victim of misfortune at various times.

    I used to hear these type of things and put it down to people trying to rationalise yet another home defeat, but Lennie Lawrence did say that Eddie Firmani told him there were bad vibes around the place.
  • iainambler
    iainambler Posts: 966
    Nicholas said:

    iainambler said:

    Lazy_eye_metaphor said:

    Seriously my late dad used to tell my that The Valley is/was the subject of some kind of gypsy curse. He always mentioned that when the club had been victim of misfortune at various times.

    To quote from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: "I f***ing hate Pikeys......"
    You mean Snatch :)

    Yeah that'll be the one. How tired am I?? But of course you knew what I was on about! :-)
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,071
    Charlton curse?

    as in 'for fcks sake Charlton sort it out '?
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    edited May 2014
    Every day I curse My Uncle John, and my cousin, along with Kev and Don (their mates) for taking me to The Valley in 1970 !

    ;-)
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    I thought the 1946 FA cup final was lost due to a curse. Not a Charlton curse but an ancient curse by Gypsies that Derby would never win the FA cup because the Baseball Ground was built on their campsite. Sure enough they had never won it so when they got to the final in 1946 there was a rumour that they had been and bribed some gypsies to lift the curse and lo and behold, the mighty Addicks were proof that it worked. Note this is the only time in the history of Charlton that we have lost in an FA cup final and surely evidence that but for the gypsies curse we would have won.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,900
    edited May 2014
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    I thought the 1946 FA cup final was lost due to a curse. Not a Charlton curse but an ancient curse by Gypsies that Derby would never win the FA cup because the Baseball Ground was built on their campsite. Sure enough they had never won it so when they got to the final in 1946 there was a rumour that they had been and bribed some gypsies to lift the curse and lo and behold, the mighty Addicks were proof that it worked. Note this is the only time in the history of Charlton that we have lost in an FA cup final and surely evidence that but for the gypsies curse we would have won.

    They knew how to cut a deal then because it was all square at full time and would have needed an additional bung for a result in extra time :-)

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  • Leaburn Forever
    Leaburn Forever Posts: 351
    I seem to remember the curse of one of our shirts. Wasn't it the white away shirt with the purple and green line on it. We never actually won an away game whilst wearing it. I think Viglin was the sponsor.

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