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Charlton training at Charlton Park ahead of 1985/86 season
Amos on the wing
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Found some tv footage on a VHS tape at my parents of Charlton training at Charlton Park ahead of the 85/86 season. Enjoy!
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£100k for a full back pairing of Humphrey and Reid - outstanding work Lennie!5
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Fascinating
Did we regularly train on Charlton Park back then? What is a school or some lads were playing there, could we pull rank
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We did that summer, some sort of tie in with Greenwich Council were had become a club sponsor after the Sunley takeover I spent loads of my summer holiday that year watching them train. The players got changed at The Valley and run up the hillkillerandflash said:Fascinating
Did we regularly train on Charlton Park back then? What is a school or some lads were playing there, could we pull rank
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I was living right near the park and remember going to watch them train0
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Charlton Park ... my old home ground (Sherington Road School team - 1961/62-ish).
What a team that was. 'Fatty' Saunders in goal. Geoff Dyett. Phil Snow.
And Mr Skinner ... our tireless Manager.1 -
And Steve Thompson as well £15k (I think).Bournemouth Addick said:£100k for a full back pairing of Humphrey and Reid - outstanding work Lennie!1 -
Elthamaddick said:I was living right near the park and remember going to watch them train
Sat and watched every day, on the hockey pitches they trained1 -
'6 new players is the tactic Chelsea used'. shows how much the game has changed when signing 6 players in the summer was considered to be an unusual tactic2
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We're watching pre-season training here. That was the time just before Sparrows Lane was bought.killerandflash said:Fascinating
Did we regularly train on Charlton Park back then? What is a school or some lads were playing there, could we pull rank
Much of the 'during the season' training was done at The Valley in earlier times, even when Eddie Firmani and Theo Foley had been managers.
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Wow, though I remember in Garry Nelson's second book that the team he was coaching (Torquay?) had to train in public parks!JohnnyH2 said:
We did that summer, some sort of tie in with Greenwich Council were had become a club sponsor after the Sunley takeover I spent loads of my summer holiday that year watching them train. The players got changed at The Valley and run up the hillkillerandflash said:Fascinating
Did we regularly train on Charlton Park back then? What is a school or some lads were playing there, could we pull rank0 -
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An average transfer window for us these days!rina said:'6 new players is the tactic Chelsea used'. shows how much the game has changed when signing 6 players in the summer was considered to be an unusual tactic0 -
Size of those players legs. a tackle from that lot would snap a modern player in half. I am built of the same mold and am forever bitter that the game has moved away from my form.0
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All of the new players mentioned Pearson, Reid, Humphrey, Pender, Reid and Shipley were integral members of that promotion team - only poor Jimmy Loveridge didn't make the cut, unable to replace our home grown duo of Amos and Robert Lee.0
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I’m blocked, awkward.0
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Ormiston_Addick said:All of the new players mentioned Pearson, Reid, Humphrey, Pender, Reid and Shipley were integral members of that promotion team - only poor Jimmy Loveridge didn't make the cut, unable to replace our home grown duo of Amos and Robert Lee.
Forgive me but I've never known why Mark Stuart was called Amos?0 -
Amos on account of his muttonchops and penchant for gossip0
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Hello Dave Rudd,I don,t know if you remember me my name is John Davis Davo53 on here,I lived in Phipps house on the bottom of Victoria way from 1958 to 1966 a gang of us used to play football on the green in the middle othe flats if my memory serves me right your nickname was spud, I went to fossdene then Sherrington and finally black Heath and blue oats very happy memories.but so long ago.0
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I've PM-ed you, John.Davo53 said:Hello Dave Rudd,I don,t know if you remember me my name is John Davis Davo53 on here,I lived in Phipps house on the bottom of Victoria way from 1958 to 1966 a gang of us used to play football on the green in the middle othe flats if my memory serves me right your nickname was spud, I went to fossdene then Sherrington and finally black Heath and blue oats very happy memories.but so long ago.
The CL World is not ready for the reminiscences of two old boys.1 -
I've said it on CL before but I couldn't believe that we a) signed John Humphrey b) that we got him for anything less than £200k. He was a stand-out in Wolves promotion team of 82-83. Never did I think we could get him.
Many years later, I told Humph that I knew Wolves were skint but £60k was a joke. He laughed and then told me that Lennie had initially offered £15k!!!!1 -
At the back end of the 80’s, I went out with a girl whose previous boy friend was John Humphrey. Our relationship didn’t last long because I was only interested in what she had to say about John HumphreySimonsen said:I've said it on CL before but I couldn't believe that we a) signed John Humphrey b) that we got him for anything less than £200k. He was a stand-out in Wolves promotion team of 82-83. Never did I think we could get him.
Many years later, I told Humph that I knew Wolves were skint but £60k was a joke. He laughed and then told me that Lennie had initially offered £15k!!!!5
