I spy Addicks

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'?!

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

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. 

I spotted one near the opposition goal last week - I was not expecting that at all. 

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.

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. 

Not a shirt....but did see a Roland Out sticker on the wall of a bar in Toronto a few years back.

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)!

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. 

Bumped into a couple of supporters staying in the same hotel as us in Marmaris Turkey quite a few years back.

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 

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

scaffold truck drove past my flat in Hove with a large Charlton sign above the dashboard, looking from above obvs

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 😃😃