Charlton V Forest 1977 (Aggro)

Uboat said:

Baldybonce said:

bolloxbolder said:

Unbelievable that 16 months later, with very few changes, that Forest team won Division 1, ie the Prem to you young uns.

As someone said there was only 5 of them. I still remember one of them in a large donkey jacket and moustache. As they were at the top of the terrace no one could get behind them. Pretty immovable really. 

Is 5 a typo ?
There were about 60/70 imo.

A joke about there being five kick offs, i.e. starts and restarts, has been misunderstood and has somehow turned into there being five people. 

Agree with SE9 though. Sounds shit. 

bolloxbolder said:

Unbelievable that 16 months later, with very few changes, that Forest team won Division 1, ie the Prem to you young uns.

As someone said there was only 5 of them. I still remember one of them in a large donkey jacket and moustache. As they were at the top of the terrace no one could get behind them. Pretty immovable really. 

 I was refering to @bolloxbolders post. A lot more than 5 and they were in the middle behind the goal not at the back.
Everytime they tried to get a song going there was an absolute roar from the Covered End. Why the Police kept them there i don't know.

5???
From what I remember a couple of hundred at least.

I was at that game and, other than our unexpected victory, I do remember the police escorting quite a large number of individual fans around the track on the pitch before removing them during the match. 

Covered End said:

TellyTubby said:

TN15 said:

5???
From what I remember a couple of hundred at least.

Lots people deserving of being whooshed for not understanding a joke. 

I still don't understand the joke, please explain.

Okay, here goes.
Poster A refers to lots of ‘kick offs’. 
Poster B makes joke about there being 5, as in the players kicking off for two halves and three goals. 

Covered End said:

Uboat said:

Covered End said:

TellyTubby said:

TN15 said:

5???
From what I remember a couple of hundred at least.

Lots people deserving of being whooshed for not understanding a joke. 

I still don't understand the joke, please explain.

Okay, here goes.
Poster A refers to lots of ‘kick offs’. 
Poster B makes joke about there being 5, as in the players kicking off for two halves and three goals. 

Poster C misreads or misunderstands and it turns into there being 5 away fans. 

Posters D, E, F, G and H say there were a lot more than 5. 

I know bolloxbolder and I thought he was being serious, which is why I thought/think he's not joking.
Obviously poster B made a joke.

Yes I wasn't joking there were only 5 Forest in there. It was difficult for the Police to remove them out of an exit as they were surrounded by Charlton fans. I was literally 10 yards south of them the whole game. They were at the back of the left side covered end ie nearer the West Stand.

Isawsummersplay said:

Brings back memories of supporting CAFC in the sixties and seventies, particularly away from home. Tactics were to get into the corner of the home end, so that the home support couldn't get behind us, and could only have a go from one side or from below. Meant that some games were fairly challenging,
The older I get, the more nostalgic I become about those times, particularly as some of those I went with are no longer with us.

Chelsea did not use those tactics in '77.......

Uboat said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

bolloxbolder said:

Covered End said:

Uboat said:

Covered End said:

TellyTubby said:

TN15 said:

5???
From what I remember a couple of hundred at least.

Lots people deserving of being whooshed for not understanding a joke. 

I still don't understand the joke, please explain.

Okay, here goes.
Poster A refers to lots of ‘kick offs’. 
Poster B makes joke about there being 5, as in the players kicking off for two halves and three goals. 

Poster C misreads or misunderstands and it turns into there being 5 away fans. 

Posters D, E, F, G and H say there were a lot more than 5. 

I know bolloxbolder and I thought he was being serious, which is why I thought/think he's not joking.
Obviously poster B made a joke.

Yes I wasn't joking there were only 5 Forest in there. It was difficult for the Police to remove them out of an exit as they were surrounded by Charlton fans. I was literally 10 yards south of them the whole game. They were at the back of the left side covered end ie nearer the West Stand.

So poster C understood correctly.

So it seems. Apologies to whoever I now owe them to. I wasn’t there, so I’ll let you sort out amongst yourselves whether there were 5 away fans in the covered end or 200. 

Edit. Just re-read the thread and I was right first time, not that it matters. 

Boy does my head hurt.

My recollection was that a small number of Forest fans charged into the covered end through the gate in the railings and were then followed by about 50 others. The police penned them in the top right hand corner. They never took the covered end. Before the match they had gone through Charlton Village and down Fairfield Grove smashing windows and stamping on car roofs. My friends mum had her windows put through. After the match I got chased up Charlton Church Lane but the fat bastard chasing me ran out of puff when he got to the chippy opposite the Lib Club and collapsed in a heap. 

ElfsborgAddick said:

So it seems the Forest Five had the biggest result ever in the taking of an end?

Well they did have one axe between them.

I want to know where @blackpool72 was when all this was going on.

Acab said:

Never never mind my mate B72, I was in the bar under the covered end at half time and some of the forest mob walked in and got what they deserved.

How did the mad axeman get on?

Acab said:

Never never mind my mate B72, I was in the bar under the covered end at half time and some of the forest mob walked in and got what they deserved.

Indeed they did.
I actually enjoyed that night. 

charltonbob said:

Acab said:

Never never mind my mate B72, I was in the bar under the covered end at half time and some of the forest mob walked in and got what they deserved.

5 pints of warm beer ?

They never did pints it was bottled courage light and bottled harp lager. Fuck all else.