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Flashback 74/75 pitch invasion

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  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,786
    edited May 2019
    Big William said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    A bit like The Mount, I've never managed to find a photo of the match and / or the pitch invasion - the one of the players having a drink after seems to be the sole photo....
    This always bugged me. There was a picture taken from the main stand of everyone on the pitch which was in a handbook the following year, the only other picture was a shot of Phil Warman I think punching the air. Never seen pictures of the goals, missed penalty or anything. As it was the last home game of the season there was no following weeks programme to put them in so I suppose they never saw the light of day.



    The main issue is how dark it was at night games in those days due to the inferior quality of the floodlights, and presumably camera technology. It made it difficult to get decent pictures.
  • Ashers
    Ashers Posts: 420
    Found my old scrapbook - I was 8 at the time, happy days! Hope the attachments work. 
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,983
    Nice work, Ashers.


  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,983
    Who else was bonkers enough to read the match report cutting?

    Did you see Mark Lawrenson was playing for Preston Both Ends that night?


  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,132
    Great pics. I’m in the first one somewhere. 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,132
    Oggy Red said:
    Who else was bonkers enough to read the match report cutting?

    Did you see Mark Lawrenson was playing for Preston Both Ends that night?


    Yup 
  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,564

  • davone1111
    davone1111 Posts: 9
    Ashers said:
    Found my old scrapbook - I was 8 at the time, happy days! Hope the attachments work. 
        Great pics . ashers
        
        Btw.. the main gates were finally locked at
        4am .


  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,425
    edited May 2019
    Superb memory.  I was 11 and it is vivid in my mind to this day.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,539
    edited June 2019
    Addickted said:
    I got the worst shits of my life at the Sahara Beach.

    Never made it back to the room and just let go in the lift.
    To this day, the “Out of Order” sign still hasn’t been removed!
    Horrified staff at the time gave it a nickname which has stuck over the years and it’s still known as ........al’iinkliziu mukhzin hinta....“The Englishman’s Lift”.

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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,410
    For those too young to have seen them, or too old to remember their names, here's the glorious 1974/75 squad 


  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,983

    Loving this thread. Brought back memories of a great season when I was 19.

    Used to go home & away virtually every game back then.



  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,731
    Chizz said:
    For those too young to have seen them, or too old to remember their names, here's the glorious 1974/75 squad 


    16 players, extremely tough tackling by today’s standards expected and the resulting bruises, pitches like potato patches by Christmas, games played on consecutive days at Easter
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,139
    TellyTubby said:

    And they painted matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs ... Lowry was a Charlton fan 
  • davone1111
    davone1111 Posts: 9
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    Chizz said:
    For those too young to have seen them, or too old to remember their names, here's the glorious 1974/75 squad 


    16 players, extremely tough tackling by today’s standards expected and the resulting bruises, pitches like potato patches by Christmas, games played on consecutive days at Easter
      Yeah some of the pitches were mud baths (remember the baseball ground Derby )
    Charlton in those days had one of the best playing surfaces in the football league courtesy of the late Maurice Banham ,a great grounds man who always had a smile on his face.
  • davone1111
    davone1111 Posts: 9
    _MrDick said:
    TellyTubby said:

    And they painted matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs ... Lowry was a Charlton fan 
          That’s exactly what I thought !
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,197
    Guilty...even took a clump of grass and replanted in my dads house where I lived in gravesend. Still there today as far as I know. Dad is a keen gardener. 

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