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One for the oldies....

Terry Naylor
Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
edited August 2009 in General Charlton
Does anyone remember the 1976 FA.Cup tie with Sheff Wed at the Valley?

I was talking to Wed fan Saturday night as he noticed my Charlton tattoo on my leg and got talking about this game!

Being only 3 at the time I dont remember it...lol!!

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  • Tavern
    Tavern Posts: 7,690
    it was mad
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Yes, they took the Covered end at 2.15pm.....loads of Skinheads...but I have to say I thought it was 74 or 75
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,225
    It was quite a day, ended up with both us and Wednesday in the covered end, totally manic!
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    It was 1976 - and we won, 2-1 I think, but can't remember our goalscorers offhand.

    Tel's right, we came into the ground to find the Covered End full of Wednesday fans and that caused a bit of aggro, I can tell you.

    After that we had a little Cup run, in the 4th round drawing at home to Pompey and beating them nicely 3-0 in the replay at Fratton Park.

    Then in the 5th round drawn away to top flight Wolves, going up on the football special train and a fantastic day out at Molyneux, even though we lost 3-0 despite having a great deal of the game. Just their finishing was better than ours.
    One of the 'classic' Charlton away days.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    I always used to walk up to the Heights before games in those days and was staggered to see the Covered end full of Blue and White Wednesday fans...it really was a chaotic day at the Valley....particularly after the game as it went off on the corner of Floyd Road and across the railway bridge...Pompey away was a bit of a mare coming home as they put a brick through the coach window.....Wolves away was a classic....over 6000 travelled, very memorable :-)
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    [cite]Posted By: Telnotinoz[/cite]Yes, they took the Covered end at 2.15pm.....loads of Skinheads...but I have to say I thought it was 74 or 75

    That's because we were still in the Watermans...And I think they were in the covered end long before 2.15

    One thing I'll always remember from that match is one of their lads charging accross the covered end dressed in a full length leather trench coat and wearing platform shoes. He fell over and was trampled underfoot by his own mates...Oh how we laughed
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    Cheers Fellas

    He reckoned that 150 Millwall turned up for a bit of revenge as Wed had had a pop up north somewhere??

    He reckons that it went off crazy but it was all millwall!

    I told him we have been hearing that old chesnut for years.....Zzzzzzzzz
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    [cite]Posted By: Terry Naylor[/cite]Cheers Fellas

    He reckoned that 150 Millwall turned up for a bit of revenge as Wed had had a pop up north somewhere??

    He reckons that it went off crazy but it was all millwall!

    I told him we have been hearing that old chesnut for years.....Zzzzzzzzz

    Absolutely no way was there any Millwall there that day
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,867
    Oldies? Well me grandad told me...

    Walked on to the East terrace about ten to three and noticed the covered end was bellowing with a distinct Yorkshire accent... Just to stir things up, Keith Peacock scored in the first minute with a mis-hit shot, and all the Charlton who had evacuated to the south terrace charged round behind the west to try and retake the covered end. This sort of carried on for most of the match, think Phil Warman got the second with an overhead kick. Distinctly remember Jimmy Giles getting hit with an apple, and taking a bite out of it! Apart from when Chelsea started burning the place down, it was probably the worst trouble I saw down there, most games used to pass with no incidents whatsoever, this was a time when there was a lot of stuff going on up and down the country.

    Lots of stories went round that Wednesday turned up the night before and made a nuisance of themselves in Charlton Village, also that they went down Woolwich and "recruited" a load of northern squaddies to help them out. Probably total BS, but you never know.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited August 2009
    Well remember watching the re-taking of the Covered End, an entertaining game both on the pitch and off it.

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  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Definetly wasnt any Millwall there....dont you get fed up hearing that?......just because we held our own, that old chestnut gets wheeled out. Id have like to have seen them try to take the Covered end had Charlton been in it.....Not likely as Cardiff found out later that year.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    100% no millwall there its in a book from a Wensday herbert there was, but thats bullshit. Like there was wall at Bristol City-- Chelsea blah blah blah.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,225
    edited August 2009
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Then in the 5th round drawn away to top flight Wolves, going up on the football special train and a fantastic day out at Molyneux, even though we lost 3-0 despite having a great deal of the game. Just their finishing was better than ours.
    One of the 'classic' Charlton away days.

    Brilliant day out, thousands of us up there - didn't one of their substitutes get all the goals?
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    Alan Sunderland, was it ... ?
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    no it wasnt Sunderland cant think of guys name though.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    Richardson?
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,225
    That was it!
  • Brunello
    Brunello Posts: 1,950
    John Richards
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    [cite]Posted By: Telnotinoz[/cite]Definetly wasnt any Millwall there....dont you get fed up hearing that?......just because we held our own, that old chestnut gets wheeled out. Id have like to have seen them try to take the Covered end had Charlton been in it.....Not likely as Cardiff found out later that year.

    And Portsmouth in the next round of the cup that year
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    edited August 2009
    John Richards, perhaps ....?

    Really trying to scratch my head on this one, it's 33 years ago, lol

    Edit: beat me too it by seconds Brunello!

    ;o)

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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    [cite]Posted By: Brunello[/cite]John Richards

    That's what i meant...LOL
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,225
    Some fun away games in the League Cup that season as well, Cambridge, Oxford, QPR.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    John Richards wasnt it?
  • Brunello
    Brunello Posts: 1,950
    Sharpen up Tel
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    I was taking a phone call from Tony on the FF....sorry!!!!!
  • m_2
    m_2 Posts: 171
    Whatever happened to 'Bomber'.

    I always used to make sure I stood behind him in the covered end!
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    I remember this game well, the Wednesday took the Covered End in what seemed like seconds but we regrouped on the left side and although we never shifted them out completely there was plenty of aggro...

    After the match we chased them down that road beside where the Waterman used to be, the aggro seem to go on for ages..

    I met a Wednesday fan in Doncaster not long after that match and he told me the coach he was on got attacked by Spanner fans as the driver got lost looking for the Blackwall tunnel, quite a few were injured apparently...

    What a small world, I was on that same coach at Pompey when the brick came through the window, it was bloody freezing too...

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