The Big Match Re visited

Was at that game.Fulham had Best,Marsh and Moore in their team.We had sold Killer but Flanagan was starting to score a lot .We had a good season.Funny can't remember where we met for a drink but can remember more about meeting up Charing X in 71 and the 'events 'of that day.Happy days

Think that that might be 77 but memory not great

Just getting old enough to go to aways on my own and those days were priceless.  Always had great "laughs" at the London games, so thoroughly ashamed of myself!

What is the keeper doing there. 

KettsJohn said:

Great days. The valley was huge. I used to move around from covered end to east terrace. I think being a Charlton fan was fairly similar then in terms of results and expectations. At school there were very few Charlton supporters. Loved those days though. I love our history. Still often dream that I am at the valley as it was back in the 70s! They use to sell roasted peanuts. A guy use to walk through the crowd shouting "peanuts". 

I think @Six-a-bag-of-nuts might be able to help you with the exact wording the guy used to shout..!

Addick Addict said:

GenevaCharlton said:

Just from that Fulham game highlights the keeper Wood and Peacock, looked good players. Were they the standout players of that season?

I would say Mike "Flash" Flanagan and Colin "Paddy" Powell were probably up there as the ones that fans identified most with. Bob Curtis and Phil Warman were favourites of mine too.

Thinking about it and the phrase "identified with" I just wonder who are the players that young fans come away from the Valley wanting to be like nowadays?

I remember how disappointed I was when one of the four players I mentioned weren't in the side (and others too) because they were part of the furniture but when you have a situation as we do now, where not one player has played even a hundred games for the Club, it must be difficult for youngsters to generate that same affinity.  In Solly and Taylor have left we've lost the longest serving player and the talisman and they must have had their followers.

Probably rose tinted glasses on my part but I wouldn't swap the '70s for any other era of following us.

ChicagoAddick said:

I was already smitten by 1977. It would have been my 2nd or 3rd season going with the old man. Too young to go to away games so used to listen to LBC. We were rubbish away from home and to win we’d invariably had to score at least 3. Powell was my favourite, but little Richie Bowman was a great little player. 

He lived 50 yards down the road from me in Lee Church Street, Lewisham.

No.1 in South London said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

ChicagoAddick said:

I was already smitten by 1977. It would have been my 2nd or 3rd season going with the old man. Too young to go to away games so used to listen to LBC. We were rubbish away from home and to win we’d invariably had to score at least 3. Powell was my favourite, but little Richie Bowman was a great little player. 

He lived 50 yards down the road from me in Lee Church Street, Lewisham.

I used to work in the woodman on lee high road.... the governor there and his son are Charlton.... I lived on the opposite side of Lee High Road in Aislibie Road. I remember Richie being from around our way but didn’t realise is was so close ..... cheers

Richie still attends most home matches in the West Stand. 

No.1 in South London said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

ChicagoAddick said:

I was already smitten by 1977. It would have been my 2nd or 3rd season going with the old man. Too young to go to away games so used to listen to LBC. We were rubbish away from home and to win we’d invariably had to score at least 3. Powell was my favourite, but little Richie Bowman was a great little player. 

He lived 50 yards down the road from me in Lee Church Street, Lewisham.

I used to work in the woodman on lee high road.... the governor there and his son are Charlton.... I lived on the opposite side of Lee High Road in Aislibie Road. I remember Richie being from around our way but didn’t realise is was so close ..... cheers

I lived opposite The Greyhound.

Max Wall lived not far from me as well.  He used the boozer at the top of Lee Church Street, whose name escapes me.

SporadicAddick said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

No.1 in South London said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

ChicagoAddick said:

I was already smitten by 1977. It would have been my 2nd or 3rd season going with the old man. Too young to go to away games so used to listen to LBC. We were rubbish away from home and to win we’d invariably had to score at least 3. Powell was my favourite, but little Richie Bowman was a great little player. 

He lived 50 yards down the road from me in Lee Church Street, Lewisham.

I used to work in the woodman on lee high road.... the governor there and his son are Charlton.... I lived on the opposite side of Lee High Road in Aislibie Road. I remember Richie being from around our way but didn’t realise is was so close ..... cheers

I lived opposite The Greyhound.

Max Wall lived not far from me as well.  He used the boozer at the top of Lee Church Street, whose name escapes me.

The Royal Oak

When I was old enough to drink I'd go in there.  Is it still open?

I think The Greyhound and The Swan are both gone.

Just googled Elements, it does not have the character of The Swan.

Four pubs in a 5 minutes walk reduced to one, a shame.

ElfsborgAddick said:

@SporadicAddick, I remember a few beers in the Mid Kent Tavern outside Lewisham Station, it was so narrow I'd struggle walking past the bar nowadays.
That was decent.

walked past it hundreds of times, never went in...

Add The Dacre Arms to the Lee Church Street pubs / Woodman and there were 5 pubs withing a 2 / 3 minute walk. A good circuit...

The other one was New Tigers Head, Old Tigers Head, The Prince Arthur and Duke of Edinburgh. 

I nominate @SporadicAddick to start/run a thread called 'The Pub Spy'!