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Covered End Choir - 1974
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I wasn’t even a tiler. I’d basically lay the slurry before the tiling.letthegoodtimesroll said:
How much were your day rates then…tiler has an expensive Armani jumper as his go to for wearing to a football match…Greenhithe said:It’s 100%tge Stoke game. I can see me in the picture. I am wearing an Armani jumper which was my pride and joy back then and I have a bag in my hand which was my work clothes as I had worked in Greenwich hospital that morning tiling floorsIn those days we used to go up town shopping and had various ways to save money as it were. That one was from Gee 2 in Oxford Street where we knew the shop workers who would detag a garment for a fee.1 -
Indeed, that journey got very naughtyraytreacy69 said:
Chelsea took the Covered End when we played eve game in 1976.When we played them at the Bridge a few months earlier it kicked off all thru the game at the North stand and was very naughty on the tube especially at Earls Court after the gamecharltonbob said:letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one
Chelsea weren't in the covered end for the "Simonsen" game. Not in any numbers anyway, there might have been a couple here & there but there wasn't a mob of them. I missed the 4-0 game when they lit bonfires so they may have been in the covered end then but apart from that I don't ever remember chelsea taking the covered end.1 -
A copper had me pinned to the floor and said your nicked.stonemuse said:
Indeed, that journey got very naughtyraytreacy69 said:
Chelsea took the Covered End when we played eve game in 1976.When we played them at the Bridge a few months earlier it kicked off all thru the game at the North stand and was very naughty on the tube especially at Earls Court after the gamecharltonbob said:letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one
Chelsea weren't in the covered end for the "Simonsen" game. Not in any numbers anyway, there might have been a couple here & there but there wasn't a mob of them. I missed the 4-0 game when they lit bonfires so they may have been in the covered end then but apart from that I don't ever remember chelsea taking the covered end.
So many fights going on he got off me to try and stop them.
Stay there he said.
Needless to say I didn't.4 -
I think Micky H and Mark R were there that day😀blackpool72 said:
A copper had me pinned to the floor and said your nicked.stonemuse said:
Indeed, that journey got very naughtyraytreacy69 said:
Chelsea took the Covered End when we played eve game in 1976.When we played them at the Bridge a few months earlier it kicked off all thru the game at the North stand and was very naughty on the tube especially at Earls Court after the gamecharltonbob said:letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one
Chelsea weren't in the covered end for the "Simonsen" game. Not in any numbers anyway, there might have been a couple here & there but there wasn't a mob of them. I missed the 4-0 game when they lit bonfires so they may have been in the covered end then but apart from that I don't ever remember chelsea taking the covered end.
So many fights going on he got off me to try and stop them.
Stay there he said.
Needless to say I didn't.0 -
Yep.raytreacy69 said:
I think Micky H and Mark R were there that day😀blackpool72 said:
A copper had me pinned to the floor and said your nicked.stonemuse said:
Indeed, that journey got very naughtyraytreacy69 said:
Chelsea took the Covered End when we played eve game in 1976.When we played them at the Bridge a few months earlier it kicked off all thru the game at the North stand and was very naughty on the tube especially at Earls Court after the gamecharltonbob said:letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one
Chelsea weren't in the covered end for the "Simonsen" game. Not in any numbers anyway, there might have been a couple here & there but there wasn't a mob of them. I missed the 4-0 game when they lit bonfires so they may have been in the covered end then but apart from that I don't ever remember chelsea taking the covered end.
So many fights going on he got off me to try and stop them.
Stay there he said.
Needless to say I didn't.
Both with me.0 -
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.
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Just to repeat Chelski took the covered end in 76 .1-1 drawCovered End said:
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.0 -
Correct. I was stood by the tea hut between the east and the covered end. Shitting myself as they sang “well see you all outside”. God knows why. I was 10 years old and wearing national health glasses and a parka.Covered End said:
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.4 -
They didn't take all of it.raytreacy69 said:
Just to repeat Chelski took the covered end in 76 .1-1 drawCovered End said:
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.
I was in there with hundreds.2 -
Well you was on your own then0
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Seem to remember a game over there around that time, we won 3-2 there was a lot of trouble in Villiers Street.stonemuse said:
Indeed, that journey got very naughtyraytreacy69 said:
Chelsea took the Covered End when we played eve game in 1976.When we played them at the Bridge a few months earlier it kicked off all thru the game at the North stand and was very naughty on the tube especially at Earls Court after the gamecharltonbob said:letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one
Chelsea weren't in the covered end for the "Simonsen" game. Not in any numbers anyway, there might have been a couple here & there but there wasn't a mob of them. I missed the 4-0 game when they lit bonfires so they may have been in the covered end then but apart from that I don't ever remember chelsea taking the covered end.0 -
That 3-2 win over there was Dec 1975.HastingsRed said:
Seem to remember a game over there would of been around that time, we won 3-2, there was a lot of trouble in Villiers Street.stonemuse said:
Indeed, that journey got very naughtyraytreacy69 said:
Chelsea took the Covered End when we played eve game in 1976.When we played them at the Bridge a few months earlier it kicked off all thru the game at the North stand and was very naughty on the tube especially at Earls Court after the gamecharltonbob said:letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one
Chelsea weren't in the covered end for the "Simonsen" game. Not in any numbers anyway, there might have been a couple here & there but there wasn't a mob of them. I missed the 4-0 game when they lit bonfires so they may have been in the covered end then but apart from that I don't ever remember chelsea taking the covered end.0 -
So was I.On the left side with Pittsy, Charlie Porsche and the Welling mobCovered End said:
They didn't take all of it.raytreacy69 said:
Just to repeat Chelski took the covered end in 76 .1-1 drawCovered End said:
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.
I was in there with hundreds.
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On his own with hundredsraytreacy69 said:Well you was on your own then
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Well my memory of the game in 76redbuttle said:
So was I.On the left side with Pittsy, Charlie Porsche and the Welling mobCovered End said:
They didn't take all of it.raytreacy69 said:
Just to repeat Chelski took the covered end in 76 .1-1 drawCovered End said:
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.
I was in there with hundreds.
evening game -most Chelski were in the was is now known as Jimmy Seed stand - but was open terrace in those days
About 10 mins before game a mob of Chelski pushed their way into covered end .I recognised one of them as the bloke who did the Kung Fu kick against Palarse which was shown on MOTD .Anyway then hundreds / prob thousands of Chelski came round from the away end to fully take the Covered End.Can’t remember Selwyn there - I thought he was on the scene a couple of yrs later.There was a few Millwall in the far corner if my memory serves me right
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There were a lot of Charlton on the left including our lot from Cherry Orchardredbuttle said:
So was I.On the left side with Pittsy, Charlie Porsche and the Welling mobCovered End said:
They didn't take all of it.raytreacy69 said:
Just to repeat Chelski took the covered end in 76 .1-1 drawCovered End said:
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.
I was in there with hundreds.2 -
That wasn't Millwall.raytreacy69 said:
Well my memory of the game in 76redbuttle said:
So was I.On the left side with Pittsy, Charlie Porsche and the Welling mobCovered End said:
They didn't take all of it.raytreacy69 said:
Just to repeat Chelski took the covered end in 76 .1-1 drawCovered End said:
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.
I was in there with hundreds.
evening game -most Chelski were in the was is now known as Jimmy Seed stand - but was open terrace in those days
About 10 mins before game a mob of Chelski pushed their way into covered end .I recognised one of them as the bloke who did the Kung Fu kick against Palarse which was shown on MOTD .Anyway then hundreds / prob thousands of Chelski came round from the away end to fully take the Covered End.Can’t remember Selwyn there - I thought he was on the scene a couple of yrs later.There was a few Millwall in the far corner if my memory serves me right
There was a Charlton mob on the terrace next to the seats1 -
F Block?stonemuse said:
There were a lot of Charlton on the left including our lot from Cherry Orchardredbuttle said:
So was I.On the left side with Pittsy, Charlie Porsche and the Welling mobCovered End said:
They didn't take all of it.raytreacy69 said:
Just to repeat Chelski took the covered end in 76 .1-1 drawCovered End said:
It was the Stoke game, the final game.letthegoodtimesroll said:If it’s been proven it’s the Stoke game then that’s what it must have been but just looking at the picture there are things that don’t quite add up to it being that match. The fans in there seem to be looking towards the covered end and their faces seem to suggest Charlton are at that point where they’ve got a comfortable lead, ie laughing. If I had to make a guess about that I’d say it was one of those matches where the covered end had been totally packed out by away fans and that’s only happened on a few occasions. There’s not enough fans in that terracing for it to be the Spurs match so I reckon it might be Chelsea in there though I can’t recall them ever having occupied all of it. That sort of fits with some of my mates near the back who would have turned up from the pub just around kick off and would usually have gone into the covered end, and me not being with them because by this time I’d moved to the seats in the main stand. We did bump into them on the way out of the ground with both sets of fans exiting together and one of my mates was loudly talking about how we’d stuffed them and me thinking ‘here we go’ but I guess the Chelsea fans were too deflated to react to him taking the piss. if it was that game then that would have been the Simonsen master class match when he tore them a new one.
The east terrace was closed and fenced off.
Charlton fans packed the Covered End, the west terraces and at least half of the south/Jimmy Seed stand.
Attendance was 8,858 from memory.
I got onto the east terrace to demonstrate before the game and got onto the pitch from that terrace at half time and again at full time.
Chelsea fans only once took the covered end in 1977. It was an evening game and we thumped them 4-0.
They set fires in the covered end, the south terrace, demolished some Harvey Gardens turnstiles & The Valley Club.
I have hated Chelsea ever since.
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No blocks at the time, right side and left side covered end which was generally measured from the first tunnel entrance.3
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Since this has turned into an All our Yesterdays Hooligan thread here's another Tom Morris photo captioned
"Crowd Trouble" in the Covered End v Spurs 15 October 1977.
Note the netting added to the front barrier to prevent pitch invasions.
Copyright Tom Morris/Charlton Athletic Museum
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That police officer right in the middle of it……….brilliant 🤣2
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That was my first game i went to without adults. I had just turned 11 and went with a new mate from my new school (the only other CAFC fan i could find). Great day. Proper 70s football scenes - people up flood lights the lot.Henry Irving said:Since this has turned into an All our Yesterdays Hooligan thread here's another Tom Morris photo captioned"Crowd Trouble" in the Covered End v Spurs 15 October 1977.
Note the netting added to the front barrier to prevent pitch invasions.
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I was sat in the West Stand that day and apart from the abiding memory of smashing Spurs 4-1 it was marred by the horrible broken leg, right in front of us, of Mark Penfold. Sadly Mark, post recovery, didn't play many more games for us before moving on.2
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That Chelsea game was the only time I sat in the stand - never called the West Stand then, of course - and I remember the game well. Chelsea were riding high with Wilkins as captain at the top of the league and got promoted, I think, that season. Charlton were excellent in that match but I remember it most for the fighting, the fires and the destruction of the turnstiles. Was at college in December 1974 so missed the game in the first photo. Agree that watching Charlton in those days with Hales, Flanagan and Powell in full flow was a joy. Impressed that fans can remember not only the goals from matches 50 years ago but the build ups too.3
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By the time we’d left the pub and managed to get into the ground it was packed out everywhere (whatever the official attendance shows, add 10k - 15k) and we only managed to squeeze into the small bit of terracing between the main stand and the open end. Half time we wandered around to the covered end which had been packed out with spurs fans but it didn’t look like that situation was going to change so drifted back to the open end for the second half to watch Flash tear them a new one.Henry Irving said:Since this has turned into an All our Yesterdays Hooligan thread here's another Tom Morris photo captioned"Crowd Trouble" in the Covered End v Spurs 15 October 1977.
Note the netting added to the front barrier to prevent pitch invasions.
Copyright Tom Morris/Charlton Athletic Museum1 -
I went to a wedding in Keston that day.letthegoodtimesroll said:
By the time we’d left the pub and managed to get into the ground it was packed out everywhere (whatever the official attendance shows, add 10k - 15k) and we only managed to squeeze into the small bit of terracing between the main stand and the open end. Half time we wandered around to the covered end which had been packed out with spurs fans but it didn’t look like that situation was going to change so drifted back to the open end for the second half to watch Flash tear them a new one.Henry Irving said:Since this has turned into an All our Yesterdays Hooligan thread here's another Tom Morris photo captioned"Crowd Trouble" in the Covered End v Spurs 15 October 1977.
Note the netting added to the front barrier to prevent pitch invasions.
Copyright Tom Morris/Charlton Athletic Museum
Following the wedding we were supposed to go for a sit down meal at the Bromley Court Hotel.
Me and my mate decided to give the Hotel a swerve and go to the match.
Glad we did as 4.1 was a great result.
Neither of our girlfriends spoke to us later that evening as they said it was embarrassing sitting down for the meal on their own.
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Sounds like you did them a favour. Imagine missing that particular game - they’d have never heard the last of it, worse would have been you and your mate sitting there and somebody mentioning the latest and final scores - the atmosphere around the table would have been a bit awkwardblackpool72 said:
I went to a wedding in Keston that day.letthegoodtimesroll said:
By the time we’d left the pub and managed to get into the ground it was packed out everywhere (whatever the official attendance shows, add 10k - 15k) and we only managed to squeeze into the small bit of terracing between the main stand and the open end. Half time we wandered around to the covered end which had been packed out with spurs fans but it didn’t look like that situation was going to change so drifted back to the open end for the second half to watch Flash tear them a new one.Henry Irving said:Since this has turned into an All our Yesterdays Hooligan thread here's another Tom Morris photo captioned"Crowd Trouble" in the Covered End v Spurs 15 October 1977.
Note the netting added to the front barrier to prevent pitch invasions.
Copyright Tom Morris/Charlton Athletic Museum
Following the wedding we were supposed to go for a sit down meal at the Bromley Court Hotel.
Me and my mate decided to give the Hotel a swerve and go to the match.
Glad we did as 4.1 was a great result.
Neither of our girlfriends spoke to us later that evening as they said it was embarrassing sitting down for the meal on their own.
Bloody women eh.0 -
Well exactly.letthegoodtimesroll said:
Sounds like you did them a favour. Imagine missing that particular game - they’d have never heard the last of it, worse would have been you and your mate sitting there and somebody mentioning the latest and final scores - the atmosphere around the table would have been a bit awkwardblackpool72 said:
I went to a wedding in Keston that day.letthegoodtimesroll said:
By the time we’d left the pub and managed to get into the ground it was packed out everywhere (whatever the official attendance shows, add 10k - 15k) and we only managed to squeeze into the small bit of terracing between the main stand and the open end. Half time we wandered around to the covered end which had been packed out with spurs fans but it didn’t look like that situation was going to change so drifted back to the open end for the second half to watch Flash tear them a new one.Henry Irving said:Since this has turned into an All our Yesterdays Hooligan thread here's another Tom Morris photo captioned"Crowd Trouble" in the Covered End v Spurs 15 October 1977.
Note the netting added to the front barrier to prevent pitch invasions.
Copyright Tom Morris/Charlton Athletic Museum
Following the wedding we were supposed to go for a sit down meal at the Bromley Court Hotel.
Me and my mate decided to give the Hotel a swerve and go to the match.
Glad we did as 4.1 was a great result.
Neither of our girlfriends spoke to us later that evening as they said it was embarrassing sitting down for the meal on their own.
Bloody women eh.
You can change your girlfriend but not your football club.8 -
I was at both the Chelsea and Tottenham games. On the bus (I was 15) going to the game Chelsea boys we’re handing over ‘tools’ and knives to girlfriends to take into the ground and when I entered the valley there was a Chelsea mob already in the covered end so I decided to watch from the east terrace.
Three memories from the Tottenham game, The thrashing on the pitch, the horrible noise of Penfolds broken leg and a large group of Charlton (including Erith skins) that ‘held’ the left side of the covered end dispute numerous attempts by Spurs to kick them out.5
