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The Valley Pitch......

Addick Addict
Addick Addict Posts: 39,849
in General Charlton
.........has looked better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0jGHaZIQY

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  • Isawsummersplay
    Isawsummersplay Posts: 1,428
    I remember this game. The new signing, John Sneddon, had a stinker. Having said that, so did the rest of the Charlton team. Nothing changes.
  • Jayajosh
    Jayajosh Posts: 2,877
    How it was in 1937
  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,258
    I remember this game. Match of the Day at this time was on the new BBC 2 channel. We didn’t have a telly that could pick up BBC2 but my friend’s family did. His parents said I could go and watch it there but my mum wouldn’t let me because it on was so late. I was 8 years old and devastated. It would have been the first time I would have seen Charlton on telly.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,680
    That game would never be played nowdays....not in a million years.

    2 things I take from that era, and from anything up to the 1990's for that matter.....no passing around the back (which makes for a much faster paced game) and with back passes allowed it again speeds things up. 
  • Isawsummersplay
    Isawsummersplay Posts: 1,428
    edited March 2019
    Bring back the big punt upfield to Leaburn, with the big man holding the ball and bringing Williams, Mortimer and Bennett into play. Didn't need a decent pitch then - just as well since the Selhurst pitch wasn't anywhere near as good as the Valley pitches produced by Maurice Banham.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,843
    Good grief. Did I spot a very young Johnnie Jackson emptying a bottle of water on that pitch at half time? :wink:

    I was probably at that game, although I don't remember it. Very strange to have the camera positioned behind a goal.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,876
    golfaddick said:
    That game would never be played nowdays....not in a million years.

    2 things I take from that era, and from anything up to the 1990's for that matter.....no passing around the back (which makes for a much faster paced game) and with back passes allowed it again speeds things up. 
    If you think allowing back passes sped up the game then you are very much wrong in my opinion.

    Nothing worse than watching a game back then where goalie rolls out to left back, gets ball kicked back to him. Rolls out to right back - passed straight back etc 

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