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SporadicAddick
SporadicAddick Posts: 6,914
in General Charlton
I always love seeing someone in a Charlton shirt when I'm not expecting it.  Perhaps somewhere to log sightings...

My most recent:-

26th August 2021 - Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (Back of shirt - "Shane 12". I think they sort of heard my "come on you reds"...)

About this time last year, son, mum and dad (son in shirt) queuing for a burger at Five Guys in West Quay, Southampton.
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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,914
    EugenesAxe said:
    On TV last Saturday, 11 of them, though didn’t appear they were aware of each other 
    I'm assuming you were expecting to see them there though  ;)
  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,491
    SporadicAddick said:
    EugenesAxe said:
    On TV last Saturday, 11 of them, though didn’t appear they were aware of each other 
    I'm assuming you were expecting to see them there though  ;)
    I thought they 'didn't turn up'?!
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,384
    SporadicAddick said:
    EugenesAxe said:
    On TV last Saturday, 11 of them, though didn’t appear they were aware of each other 
    I'm assuming you were expecting to see them there though  ;)
    Indeed, though many of them not for much longer!
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,542
    I got pulled up walking round Ardingly Antiques Fair with a Charlton brolly once. Bloke come up to me and said "I'm Charlton", followed by an awkward 5 seconds silence, before we both carried on our way
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    I prefer shouting "Oi, Nigel" whenever I see a Palace top in unusual places.

    Amazing how many of them turn around.
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,228
    Boot fair in Norwich last Sunday. My two young grand kids were very excited to see a guy in the Charlton away shirt. Yep I am  always lifted to see a Charlton shirt in Norfolk. 
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    Not a shirt sighting, but I spotted a Charlton car sticker in the back of a car driving along the CV715 in the Orba Valley in a quiet backwater in Spain. 

    Hola fellow Addick.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    I spotted one near the opposition goal last week - I was not expecting that at all. 
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    I was in a stadium tour of the mestalla stadium a couple of years ago. Also on it was a Charlton fan (tattoo on his arm rather than wearing a shirt) turns out his season ticket seat was 4 rows behind mine - same seat number as well.

    later that day I was out for dinner and Francis Coquelin was in the same restaurant.

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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    KettsJohn said:
    Boot fair in Norwich last Sunday. My two young grand kids were very excited to see a guy in the Charlton away shirt. Yep I am  always lifted to see a Charlton shirt in Norfolk. 
    Perhaps it was Nigel Adkins trying to sell Schwartz.
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited August 2021
    Alex Wright said:
    Not a shirt sighting, but I spotted a Charlton car sticker in the back of a car driving along the CV715 in the Orba Valley in a quiet backwater in Spain. 

    Hola fellow Addick.
    Another car nicked from around Makro's Charlton and sent abroad.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,070
    Went to Lisbon in 1995 for my first Ireland away game. Had spent over an hour in the travel agents (remember them) in Woolwich as they tried in vain to get us a hotel (over 30,000 Irish fans were going and everything was sold out). In the end we just took the flight, had no match ticket either, and assured ourselves we’d find something.

    On the bus from Lisbon airport into the city and there was the two of us and a young lad in a Galway United shirt. We asked him where he was staying and he dug into his bag for a Youth Hostel world directory…and two Charlton programmes came out as well!! Myself and pal just looked at each other in amazement and let him know we were both fans, but what was his story.  He was a member of the Charlton Irish supporters club, which we didn’t even know existed at that stage.

    Ended up staying at the hostel, being introduced to a load of others over for the game who walked us round to the Portuguese FA office and we had a place to stay and tickets for the game within an hour of landing, thanks to that chance meeting. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,135
    ricky_otto said:
    I spotted one near the opposition goal last week - I was not expecting that at all. 
    I think that was a pigeon.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,765
    Not a shirt....but did see a Roland Out sticker on the wall of a bar in Toronto a few years back.
  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,491
    edited August 2021
    I sat next to one on a flight back from Kenya about 15 years ago,

    And I yet another, not unexpectedly on a train to LGW to get the flight for Op Riverside (not sure if that was what it was called but you'll know what I mean) who had just got back from the DRC and had been in the bar drinking with my colleague there the week before.

    I was also surprised to see a sticker in the back of a car where my aunt and uncle lived in Darras Hall, Ponteland - very much Newcastle territory and where a lot of the players live (in the big houses, not in their road!)
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,088
    Gribbo said:
    I got pulled up walking round Ardingly Antiques Fair with a Charlton brolly once. Bloke come up to me and said "I'm Charlton", followed by an awkward 5 seconds silence, before we both carried on our way
    Surely “come on you reds” is the correct greeting whenever you see another Charlton fan (followed by the awkward silence)!
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,697
    se9addick said:
    Gribbo said:
    I got pulled up walking round Ardingly Antiques Fair with a Charlton brolly once. Bloke come up to me and said "I'm Charlton", followed by an awkward 5 seconds silence, before we both carried on our way
    Surely “come on you reds” is the correct greeting whenever you see another Charlton fan (followed by the awkward silence)!
    I always say 'Up The Addicks !!'
  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,701
    Not me but daughter went to Zante with her 'school mates' a couple of years ago for some age appropriate fun (teenage daughter = dad's nightmare). 

    Aside of any debauchery, of which I have never enquired, she met some 'lads' whilst out on the piss (them not her of course). She got chatting to a lad and bizarrely they talked football. As it happens it was a football romance made in heaven, finding out they were both Addicks. Taking the joyous disbelief even further, the two got matching 'Roland Out' tattoo's which they wore for the duration of the holiday. The following season we bumped into said teenage lad at a Charlton game up North, Preston I think (me sizing him up for respectability) and she was somewhat embarrassed to say hello, again. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,697
    a couple of weeks after the 4-2 win at Highbury (which I missed as we were on a flight to Melbourne at the time) I bumped into a fellow Addick in Adelaide Cathedral. Turned out they had shown the Arsenal game again just the night before as it was an international week and I'd missed it again.

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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,398
    Bumped into a couple of supporters staying in the same hotel as us in Marmaris Turkey quite a few years back.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,915
    Sitting about 10 years ago with my niece and with my legs dangling over this small bridge crabbing on a remote bit of St Helen’s Isle of Wight (actually called mill wall). Not seen another person for about half hour and then this bloke walks behind us and goes “your name xxxxx? You drink in the Liberal Club before games, don’t ya?’  


  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,542
    AFKABartram said:
    Sitting about 10 years ago with my niece and with my legs dangling over this small bridge crabbing on a remote bit of St Helen’s Isle of Wight (actually called mill wall). Not seen another person for about half hour and then this bloke walks behind us and goes “your name xxxxx? You drink in the Liberal Club before games, don’t ya?’  


    I think there's quite a healthy contingent of Charlton over there mate 
  • bc_addick
    bc_addick Posts: 761
    SporadicAddick said:
    I always love seeing someone in a Charlton shirt when I'm not expecting it.  Perhaps somewhere to log sightings...

    My most recent:-

    26th August 2021 - Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (Back of shirt - "Shane 12". I think they sort of heard my "come on you reds"...)

    About this time last year, son, mum and dad (son in shirt) queuing for a burger at Five Guys in West Quay, Southampton.
    There's a few of us down this way.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,542
    AFKA's story reminds me of one about my mum. Not necessarily Charlton related, more a "small world" story. 

    When my aunt passed away, my uncle decided to buy himself a sailing boat as it was something he'd always wanted. One time he asked if my mum and her husband fancied a week in the Lake District with the intention on taking his boat. Mum agreed and off they went. On one of the first days there, mum was sat on the jetty reading a book, while my uncle and mums husband were out on the boat, not a soul about, when a family walked up. It was an elderly couple with adult son or daughter who had learning difficulties, anyway, mum started talking to them and it turned out they were from Bexleyheath (mum lived in Mottingham at the time and uncle was Barnehurst). If that weren't strange enough, on the way home a week or so later, they pulled into the services around the Midlands area, and as they walked in, the very same family were walking out
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,410
    edited August 2021
    In our Premiership days, I once saw a young lady wearing a Charlton shirt in a market area of a town called Klang (it might ring a bell) in Malaysia. I had to go over to her and ask her how long she had supported Charlton. She looked at me blankly for a second and then said "Oh, very cheap in market. I like red". I fancy that she knew nothing about Charlton except, perhaps, that Charlton wear red and their fake replica shirts were a lot cheaper in the market than Man Utd.
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,363
    edited August 2021
    scaffold truck drove past my flat in Hove with a large Charlton sign above the dashboard, looking from above obvs
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,914
    thai malaysia addick said:
    In our Premiership days, I once saw a young lady wearing a Charlton shirt in a market area of a town called Klang (it might ring a bell) in Malaysia. I had to go over to her and ask her how long she had supported Charlton. She looked at me blankly for a second and then said "Oh, very cheap in market. I like red". I fancy that she knew nothing about Charlton except, perhaps, that Charlton wear red and their fake replica shirts were a lot cheaper in the market than Man Utd.

    Sadly you can only give one LOL - I'd like to give a second LOL for the very good bell pun - I think you may have used that one before but it was very appealing. 
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    I bumped into someone in Looe about a month ago - he had a tattoo of the crest on his calf.  made myself known as an Addick 😀

    when I was a kid I was in Turkey on holiday.  I was on a Charlton towel and a chap came up and spoke to my old man about it…turns out it was Richard Collins the former director 

    finally about 2 years ago in Disneyworld I saw a lad in a Charlton shirt.  I wandered up and said “We want Roland Out”
    his face was a bit confused at first 😃😃
  • Isawsummersplay
    Isawsummersplay Posts: 1,430
    Nairobi Airport, 1987.

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