Charlton Athletic Moscow Amateur FC

rina said:

the russians were Spartak Moscow fans who were originally visiting to see the champions' league gave vs Arsenal and ended up adopting Charlton

the CIFC gave against them was an absolute battering, we borrowed a couple of their players and ended up losing 7-1. Myself, @Oakster‌ @Charlton Charlie‌ @randy andy‌ all played, not sure if any others are on here, @Oakster‌ 's report is below

then myself and oakster plus possibly others, I can't remember played against them for an Arsenal team and probably got battered again

I remember having to write out the words to Valley Floyd Road so they could all practice them
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A 7-1 defeat by the Russians. Fielding a very much under strength
side CIFC fought bravely in the first half to restrict the Ruskis to
just 2-0 at half time. A fine effort from Messrs Williams & Peters
in the middle at the back breaking up swarm after swarm of Russians
breaking through our midfield. Indeed it was reminiscent of
Stalingrad in 1942 when the brave Nazi defenders held out against
the communist counterattacking onslaughts, with suicidal Reds
swarming day & night across the river Volga. All this after the
Fatherlands glorious march across the Caucasas as part of Operation
Barabarossa had come to grinding holt in the backstreets &
warehouses of Stalingrad.

The second half saw the Red's encircling the CIFC penalty area and
much like the 1942 fixture in which Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich
Paulus Sixth army had finally been encircled by revenge hungry
Russians, the boys in Ecru capitulated. 5 sniper like goals flew
past the hapless Guyott - with the only comic relief an unlikely
goal from Matt Owen. Much like Bergkamp's at Newcastle last year was
this the work of a football genius or an unitentional slice of pure
luck??? - I'll leave those that were there to judge!! The other
highlight was a shot on goal from Spinksy, which caused the Russian
keeper a (very) brief moment of concern.

In the end the maurauding Russians simply overwhelmed us & what
remained of the dreary, dejected CIFC troops marched off to the icy
Gulags of the Coldharbour changing rooms - never to be heard of
again.

CIFC (from):

Feldwebel Guyott A.
Unteroffizier Meegan A.
Oberstleutnant Spinks D.
Sturmscharführer Williams G.J
Grenadier Peters K.
Stabsfeldwebel Murfet N.
Hauptmann Owen M.
Russian Deserter No. 1
Russian Deserter No.2
Obersturmbannführer Prior J
SS Schütz Bharij R.
Unteroffizier Armstrong J.
Leutnant Rose G.
Obergrenadier Oakey A.

Uboat said:

That chant needs work tbh.

swords_alive said:

Just mimics. Nothing Charlton about them but the symbolism.