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40 Years Ago
ParkinsonOut
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I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere, but it’s now the 40th anniversary of when we came very close to losing our Charlton Athletic FC. It feels like a lifetime ago but in the days before t’internet, social media & 24 hour news channels I’d be interested to read fellow fans memories of this time & how they found out that we had been saved at the 11th hour.
I passed my driving test & remember saying to the examiner that it was the second bit of good news I’d had that week as my club had been saved from oblivion 😊
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I was one of the few fans who attended the court hearing when we were saved, it was looking very bleak until judge Mervyn Davies announced there may be some good news & then after a brief adjournment he announced that we were saved subject to FA/Football approval.11
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What I see still to this day are Richard Collins and people being driven away from High Court case in his car.
The years that followed leading up to Rodger Alwen announcement of a return to The Valley I was more active in the meetings and protests.3 -
I remember in one local news report, Derek Hales saying that the players were keeping their spirits up as the bar was well stocked with Heineken.6
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The change in English football and more specifically in Charlton’s fortunes in the following 14 years was remarkable. From a failing game played in decrepit stadiums to the world’s richest league with CAFC in it within such a short space of time.1
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THAT’S ME WITH THE CLAPPING HAT at 17.28!!!!!!!! 😂🥳👏shirty5 said:4 -
I was working in London & remember reading it in the Evening Standard on the train back home.2
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@blackpool72 NEVER go on about my purple coat again!SoundAsa£ said:
THAT’S ME WITH THE CLAPPING HAT at 17.28!!!!!!!! 😂🥳👏shirty5 said:
@SoundAsa£ when you bought that ski jacket did you ask for something that could be seen in the dark?
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About the hat of @SoundAsa£ ?golfaddick said:I was working in London & remember reading it in the Evening Standard on the train back home. 0 -
You have made an old man very happy with this finding.shirty5 said:
He could not stop laughing down the phone telling me about this, but is very pleased this has popped up. So much so I have pasted the link so it's his to look back on and chuckle.0 -
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I remember seeing that at the time!SoundAsa£ said:
THAT’S ME WITH THE CLAPPING HAT at 17.28!!!!!!!! 😂🥳👏shirty5 said:
For me, anything else that happened after this at Charlton didn't compare. The club appeared finished and there wasn't the soft-landing of Administration....this was game over. I was at Swansea on the Saturday and then bang...club on life-support, with a legal finger hovering over the switch.
Two days after the rescue, only 7,600 turned up for the game v Grimsby at The Valley. I couldn't believe the apathy and yet the return to The Valley in later years, attracted a sell-out. To this day, I can't quite get my head around it.5 -
Wicked jumper worn by Peter Mountford there!
Looked like Barry Little and Geoff Scott in amongst the better known players in the bar.0 -
I was at university and heard the news on what would have been Radio Two back then (before Five Live came into existence). We had a "Spring Event" party at our college that night and I remember dancing like crazy, I was so happy!3
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Me too. Pure elation when my Dad just slipped it into conversation "oh..they got saved half hour ago....."Weegie Addick said:I was at university and heard the news on what would have been Radio Two back then (before Five Live came into existence). We had a "Spring Event" party at our college that night and I remember dancing like crazy, I was so happy!0 -
Was young dumb and full of c@#e.
Extraordinary episode in our turbulant history. Thank God we survived, I would of missed forty years of ball ache!0 -
Thanks for sharing this shirty, I don't recall seeing those news reports on tv. Funny thing is, I was working at the Official Receivers department at that time but nothing related to this matter found its way to the typing pool.shirty5 said:2 -
Was Hulyer a wrong’un or deluded like Sandgard or something else?0
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Feel a bit old watching that but like Clive I was there in Court that day, took a day off from my job in Victoria street and went up there. Steve Dixon looks about 15 there! Anyway thanks for finding this clip... Good memories.2
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I believe he had the club's best interests at heart but the finances got away from him a bit. Nowhere near as much of a chancer as that twat Sandgard.AddicksAddict said:Was Hulyer a wrong’un or deluded like Sandgard or something else?4 -
He still wears it to games.AddicksAddict said:1 -
He still attends some gàmes at The Valley.DaveMehmet said:
I believe he had the club's best interests at heart but the finances got away from him a bit. Nowhere near as much of a chancer as that twat Sandgard.AddicksAddict said:Was Hulyer a wrong’un or deluded like Sandgard or something else?2 -
I think the signing of Alan Simonsen put a strain on finances as gates never increased massively as I recall.DaveMehmet said:
I believe he had the club's best interests at heart but the finances got away from him a bit. Nowhere near as much of a chancer as that twat Sandgard.AddicksAddict said:Was Hulyer a wrong’un or deluded like Sandgard or something else?1 -
That was a very nervous wait that day.0
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As a 12 year old I was completely oblivious to the whole thing and only read about it several years later.0
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Just watched it all the way through and saw my dear dad whose birthday it would've been today in the Social club.. Couldn't believe it and never knew he was there! Even at 63 I was a bit emotional... This bloody silly amazing club gets into your heart and soul.8
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Nice one @peterreevespeterreeves said:Just watched it all the way through and saw my dear dad whose birthday it would've been today in the Social club.. Couldn't believe it and never knew he was there! Even at 63 I was a bit emotional... This bloody silly amazing club gets into your heart and soul.1 -
The sell out return to The Valley was a massive 737 more at 8,337, which was the capacity.Simonsen said:
I remember seeing that at the time!SoundAsa£ said:
THAT’S ME WITH THE CLAPPING HAT at 17.28!!!!!!!! 😂🥳👏shirty5 said:
For me, anything else that happened after this at Charlton didn't compare. The club appeared finished and there wasn't the soft-landing of Administration....this was game over. I was at Swansea on the Saturday and then bang...club on life-support, with a legal finger hovering over the switch.
Two days after the rescue, only 7,600 turned up for the game v Grimsby at The Valley. I couldn't believe the apathy and yet the return to The Valley in later years, attracted a sell-out. To this day, I can't quite get my head around it.0
