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Happy Clive Mendonca Day

twiggyaddick
twiggyaddick Posts: 1,590
in General Charlton
KM and RD can never take this day away from us...18 years today!!
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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,571
    Wow that makes me feel old!
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,425
    What a day that was, I was 9 at the time and clearly remember the save and celebrations after.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,716
    Legend.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,661
    The memories linger on. What a fantastic day.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,381
    I got a stone put down around Wembley way when they were getting it paved with fans allowed to pay for stones
    Anyone seen it ? Can't remember what I had written on it something about making our dreams come true and the date and his name , will look it up later
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,967
    I was drunk for a week after that day...can't believe it's 18 years ago !
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
    Stop living in the past.

    Our history means nothing.

    Come to the Valley to see the premiership stars of the future.

    That's a good customer.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Not a bad day out. Much prefer failing to beat mk Dons
  • valleyrobin
    valleyrobin Posts: 203
    It never was 18 years ago where has that time gone! Look at us today with the right management we could still be their

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  • Eynsfordaddick
    Eynsfordaddick Posts: 2,046
    Fantastic day! I remember the coach journey home was in silence as we were all shattered from the tension! We walked into the local pub and the landlord greeted us with: 'You'll be relegated next year!'
    I could watch that dvd over and over. Thanks, Super Clive and all!
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,133
    image
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,414
    Was only 3, and before I had even been to Charlton. But what a day! Have watched the DVD and plenty of other footage so many times.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,381
    MAY 25TH 1998
    CLIVE MENDONCA
    OUR DREAMS CAME TRUE
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    oohaahmortimer said:

    I got a stone put down around Wembley way when they were getting it paved with fans allowed to pay for stones
    Anyone seen it ? Can't remember what I had written on it something about making our dreams come true and the date and his name , will look it up later

    "Adult weekend at Butlins is worth a crack"
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,427
    Mendonca's ball control for our 2nd goal is out of this world, but there is no 4th goal without a proper tackle from Brownie.

    Proper Charlton players.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
    edited May 2016
    More photos on the museum twitter site @chathmuseum If you have any other fan photos please let your musuem have them




    PS I'm nicking that image @stackitsteve brilliant
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,995
    Move on


    Jokes aside, possibly the best day I've ever and am likely to ever experience as a Charlton fan.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,799
    edited May 2016
    His goals were choreographed straight out of Hollywood, pure poetry in motion, meant to be goals all the way, and none of that scrappy, half-arsed, pansy-kicked stuff players run to the corner and take their shirt off to celebrate these days. I suspect if super Clive had got one of those flukey goals that today's 'strikers' go over the top to claim he would have asked the ref to rule it out
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
    image

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  • 9goalswentpastperry
    9goalswentpastperry Posts: 1,125
    Henry Irving said:

    More photos on the museum twitter site @chathmuseum If you have any other fan photos please let your musuem have them




    PS I'm nicking that image @stackitsteve brilliant

    I've got pretty much every newspaper from the following day, you're welcome to those if museum can use them.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
    9goalswentpastperry said:

    Henry Irving said:

    More photos on the museum twitter site @chathmuseum If you have any other fan photos please let your musuem have them




    PS I'm nicking that image @stackitsteve brilliant

    I've got pretty much every newspaper from the following day, you're welcome to those if museum can use them.
    We'd love to have them.

    If you can post to:

    The Museum
    C/O The Valley
    Floyd Rd
    Charlton
    SE7 8BL

    That would be fantastic.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,571
    Henry Irving said:

    image

    eurgh someone's scribbled all over it.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,661
    Today, I shall mostly be wearing this shirt. Signed by the squad.

    (and it ain't been washed since that memorable day).
    image
  • DiscoCAFC
    DiscoCAFC Posts: 1,767
    Why do we call it Clive Mendonca day??? Yes he got a hatrick but the other 10 players contributed to that game!
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,464
    The biggest injustice in "naming a day after one player", since 1981.

    Eight-for-forty three. Eight wickets. Bowling flat out. Elbows pumping, hair flying everywhere. Blitzing, demolishing and terrifying the Australian batsmen. Dragging his team from almost-certain defeat, to a head-spinning, awesome victory. And yet, they still call it "Botham's Test".

    And then, in 1998 at Wembley. 104 minutes. The bone-crunching, feet-first, flying tackle that won the ball, which span to Kinsella, who fed Steve Jones...

    Mendonca was brilliant. The perfect match. A hat-trick and a penalty in the shoot-out. His first was a great flick from Bright. His second was a long ball from Keith Jones. And his hat-trick was an illustration of balletic perfection, controlling Steve Jones' centre and volleying in, in one beautiful arc. Mendonca did his job, brilliantly.

    But the hat-trick goal, Charlton's third equaliser of the match, the score that sent the match to penalties, was made by one perfect, old-fashioned, no-nonsense, proper, crunching tackle by an understated, down-to-earth Charlton hero. That tackle broke Sunderland that day. And for me, that tackle won the match for Charlton.

    So, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish my fellow Addicks that were there and those that missed it a very, very happy Steve Brown Day.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
    Chizz said:

    The biggest injustice in "naming a day after one player", since 1981.

    Eight-for-forty three. Eight wickets. Bowling flat out. Elbows pumping, hair flying everywhere. Blitzing, demolishing and terrifying the Australian batsmen. Dragging his team from almost-certain defeat, to a head-spinning, awesome victory. And yet, they still call it "Botham's Test".

    And then, in 1998 at Wembley. 104 minutes. The bone-crunching, feet-first, flying tackle that won the ball, which span to Kinsella, who fed Steve Jones...

    Mendonca was brilliant. The perfect match. A hat-trick and a penalty in the shoot-out. His first was a great flick from Bright. His second was a long ball from Keith Jones. And his hat-trick was an illustration of balletic perfection, controlling Steve Jones' centre and volleying in, in one beautiful arc. Mendonca did his job, brilliantly.

    But the hat-trick goal, Charlton's third equaliser of the match, the score that sent the match to penalties, was made by one perfect, old-fashioned, no-nonsense, proper, crunching tackle by an understated, down-to-earth Charlton hero. That tackle broke Sunderland that day. And for me, that tackle won the match for Charlton.

    So, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish my fellow Addicks that were there and those that missed it a very, very happy Steve Brown Day.



    Browndog
    ‏@S66Brown Browndog
    18 years later to the day and guess what? I'm cleaning the shower and washing the bed sheets
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,990
    DiscoCAFC said:

    Why do we call it Clive Mendonca day??? Yes he got a hatrick but the other 10 players contributed to that game!

    Maybe because The "Illic Rufus Mills Youds Bowen Jones Rufus Kinsella Heaney Mendonca Bright Day " doesn't quite have the same ring to it??
  • SteviesDivingHeaders
    SteviesDivingHeaders Posts: 51
    Chizz said:


    So, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish my fellow Addicks that were there and those that missed it a very, very happy Steve Brown Day.

    Amen!

    Just one of the reasons he's my all-time favourite player
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,385
    Chizz said:

    The biggest injustice in "naming a day after one player", since 1981.

    Eight-for-forty three. Eight wickets. Bowling flat out. Elbows pumping, hair flying everywhere. Blitzing, demolishing and terrifying the Australian batsmen. Dragging his team from almost-certain defeat, to a head-spinning, awesome victory. And yet, they still call it "Botham's Test".

    And then, in 1998 at Wembley. 104 minutes. The bone-crunching, feet-first, flying tackle that won the ball, which span to Kinsella, who fed Steve Jones...

    Mendonca was brilliant. The perfect match. A hat-trick and a penalty in the shoot-out. His first was a great flick from Bright. His second was a long ball from Keith Jones. And his hat-trick was an illustration of balletic perfection, controlling Steve Jones' centre and volleying in, in one beautiful arc. Mendonca did his job, brilliantly.

    But the hat-trick goal, Charlton's third equaliser of the match, the score that sent the match to penalties, was made by one perfect, old-fashioned, no-nonsense, proper, crunching tackle by an understated, down-to-earth Charlton hero. That tackle broke Sunderland that day. And for me, that tackle won the match for Charlton.

    So, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish my fellow Addicks that were there and those that missed it a very, very happy Steve Brown Day.

    You could say it started in 53 with the cup final called the Matthews final despite Stan Mortenson scoring a hat trick

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