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  • redbuttle
    redbuttle Posts: 1,985
    redbuttle said:
    I remember them taking The Covered End in 76.
    Mocking our relegation in 99.
    Attacking us at Hillsborough in 2014 and many other runs in with the 'orrible northern bastards.

    The last time we were relegated it was because the efl didn't deduct their points for breaking the rules in the same season.

    I'd be very pleased if they spent the next 20 years in Leagues 1, 2 or non league.
    I don't think they took the Covered end. They tried at half time, i remember because my cousin was nicked at the gate behind the West as they tried to get through. The Police kept him overnight so he told his parents he'd stayed at mine.
    The following week the Mercury published a list of all those arrested. Oh how we laughed.
    They got in the covered end early virtually before everyone else got there. Despite several attempts we couldn't get them.out.
    Another who remembers it well.
    I certainly do.
  • redbuttle
    redbuttle Posts: 1,985
    edited October 15
    Sounds like there were a lot of hard men in football back in the day, but they all missed a trick, could have become prize fighting millionaires instead of being tough at the football. 😂
    Unfortunately it was quite rough in the 70s and 80s. Don't think you would have liked it.
  • 3G
    3G Posts: 734
    Treat people with respect and (if you're lucky) they'll treat you with respect. Doubt this lot have ever shown respect to anyone. 

    Sheffield Wednesday have always been a nasty club. I don't wish them to fold but I don't wish them well. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,030
    edited October 15
    kafka said:
    redbuttle said:
    I remember them taking The Covered End in 76.
    Mocking our relegation in 99.
    Attacking us at Hillsborough in 2014 and many other runs in with the 'orrible northern bastards.

    The last time we were relegated it was because the efl didn't deduct their points for breaking the rules in the same season.

    I'd be very pleased if they spent the next 20 years in Leagues 1, 2 or non league.
    I don't think they took the Covered end. They tried at half time, i remember because my cousin was nicked at the gate behind the West as they tried to get through. The Police kept him overnight so he told his parents he'd stayed at mine.
    The following week the Mercury published a list of all those arrested. Oh how we laughed.
    They got in the covered end early virtually before everyone else got there. Despite several attempts we couldn't get them.out.
    FAC 3rd rd....we won 2-1.
    I was there. As I recall, we were in old Div 2 and they were in Div 3?

    Yes that's right....Went on to beat Portsmouth in the 4th rd (after a replay) then lost 3-0 at Wolves in the 5th rd.
    Where Charlton fans had to run across the motorway to escape the Wolves fans waiting in the subway.
    I think it was a John Richards hat trick.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,030
    cafctom said:
    Imagine being so sensitive that a stupid comment from a player about 10 years ago, and a few idiotic fans (of which we have a few ourselves), is enough for anyone to show zero sympathy for a club and generations of its fans that have followed them for 158 years. 

    Seriously, some of you need to grow up a little bit. 
    I wonder if you would still feel the same if they had attacked you or your family?
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,653
    redbuttle said:
    Sounds like there were a lot of hard men in football back in the day, but they all missed a trick, could have become prize fighting millionaires instead of being tough at the football. 😂
    Unfortunately it was quite rough in the 70s and 80s. Don't think you would have liked it.
    Even the SAS would have thought twice about using the toilet behind the Covered end. The light never worked and the spiders were the size of your hand.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,373
    edited October 15
    cafctom said:
    Imagine being so sensitive that a stupid comment from a player about 10 years ago, and a few idiotic fans (of which we have a few ourselves), is enough for anyone to show zero sympathy for a club and generations of its fans that have followed them for 158 years. 

    Seriously, some of you need to grow up a little bit. 
    I wonder if you would still feel the same if they had attacked you or your family?
    If that happened to me I'd probably take pleasure out of seeing us beat them, or them getting relegated as a bit of revenge.

    But if anyone's going to attribute the behavior of a minority of idiots to literally hundreds of thousands of people dating back one and a half centuries, and happy to see them go out of existence - then it says more about that person tbh. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,030
    edited October 15
    I don't think more than one or two have said they want them out of existence.

    More that they won't be supporting their protests and would be quite happy for them to get their comeuppance by getting relegated.

    NB although their idiots are a minority ie less than 50%, they are a very sizeable minority.
    It's just that a minority of our fans posting on here have been lucky enough to have not met their idiot minority.

    In terms of idiot minorities they are in a pack behind Millwall, Leeds, W Ham, Chelsea etc, but they are up there in the bunch of biggest c*%ts going.
  • KingKinsella
    KingKinsella Posts: 1,321
    _MrDick said:
    redbuttle said:
    I remember them taking The Covered End in 76.
    Mocking our relegation in 99.
    Attacking us at Hillsborough in 2014 and many other runs in with the 'orrible northern bastards.

    The last time we were relegated it was because the efl didn't deduct their points for breaking the rules in the same season.

    I'd be very pleased if they spent the next 20 years in Leagues 1, 2 or non league.
    I don't think they took the Covered end. They tried at half time, i remember because my cousin was nicked at the gate behind the West as they tried to get through. The Police kept him overnight so he told his parents he'd stayed at mine.
    The following week the Mercury published a list of all those arrested. Oh how we laughed.
    They got in the covered end early virtually before everyone else got there. Despite several attempts we couldn't get them.out.
    Am I right in saying they are the only mob to have properly taken the Covered End outside of London. I know of others that have had a go....Forrest and Brum spring to mind but didn't stay in there for that long.
    Leicester took the covered end in the early 1970’s. I remember it as a nipper who used to stand on the small terrace next to the old west stand. It was a match that we lost 5-1 
    Millwall chased Charlton fans round the whole Valley  terraces,  West stand, covered end  in the 70's. They took over the whole ground.

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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,109
    redbuttle said:
    Sounds like there were a lot of hard men in football back in the day, but they all missed a trick, could have become prize fighting millionaires instead of being tough at the football. 😂
    Unfortunately it was quite rough in the 70s and 80s. Don't think you would have liked it.
    They were shit decades, likewise the 2020s so far.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,765
    cafctom said:
    Imagine being so sensitive that a stupid comment from a player about 10 years ago, and a few idiotic fans (of which we have a few ourselves), is enough for anyone to show zero sympathy for a club and generations of its fans that have followed them for 158 years. 

    Seriously, some of you need to grow up a little bit. 
    Woke nonsense . Fuck em 
  • kafka said:
    redbuttle said:
    I remember them taking The Covered End in 76.
    Mocking our relegation in 99.
    Attacking us at Hillsborough in 2014 and many other runs in with the 'orrible northern bastards.

    The last time we were relegated it was because the efl didn't deduct their points for breaking the rules in the same season.

    I'd be very pleased if they spent the next 20 years in Leagues 1, 2 or non league.
    I don't think they took the Covered end. They tried at half time, i remember because my cousin was nicked at the gate behind the West as they tried to get through. The Police kept him overnight so he told his parents he'd stayed at mine.
    The following week the Mercury published a list of all those arrested. Oh how we laughed.
    They got in the covered end early virtually before everyone else got there. Despite several attempts we couldn't get them.out.
    FAC 3rd rd....we won 2-1.
    I was there. As I recall, we were in old Div 2 and they were in Div 3?

    Yes that's right....Went on to beat Portsmouth in the 4th rd (after a replay) then lost 3-0 at Wolves in the 5th rd.
    Where Charlton fans had to run across the motorway to escape the Wolves fans waiting in the subway.
    I think it was a John Richards hat trick.
    Run? Charlton fans in the 70’s need to grow some

    ducks for cover
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,370
    redbuttle said:
    Sounds like there were a lot of hard men in football back in the day, but they all missed a trick, could have become prize fighting millionaires instead of being tough at the football. 😂
    Unfortunately it was quite rough in the 70s and 80s. Don't think you would have liked it.
    So you boys all liked it rough in the 70s and 80s? 

    Not my thing, but each to their own.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,058
    redbuttle said:
    Sounds like there were a lot of hard men in football back in the day, but they all missed a trick, could have become prize fighting millionaires instead of being tough at the football. 😂
    Unfortunately it was quite rough in the 70s and 80s. Don't think you would have liked it.
    Even the SAS would have thought twice about using the toilet behind the Covered end. The light never worked and the spiders were the size of your hand.
    And yet some pussies on here whinge about a broken lock on one of the traps!!  The game’s gone soft @Baldybonce 🤷🏻‍♂️😉
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,373
    cafctom said:
    Imagine being so sensitive that a stupid comment from a player about 10 years ago, and a few idiotic fans (of which we have a few ourselves), is enough for anyone to show zero sympathy for a club and generations of its fans that have followed them for 158 years. 

    Seriously, some of you need to grow up a little bit. 
    Woke nonsense . Fuck em 
    Well there's an argument full of logic and sense.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,113
    I always thought the BBC were the a***holes of the city.
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,633
    The Charlton Chronicles seem anti Chansiri.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,277
    edited October 16
    _MrDick said:
    redbuttle said:
    I remember them taking The Covered End in 76.
    Mocking our relegation in 99.
    Attacking us at Hillsborough in 2014 and many other runs in with the 'orrible northern bastards.

    The last time we were relegated it was because the efl didn't deduct their points for breaking the rules in the same season.

    I'd be very pleased if they spent the next 20 years in Leagues 1, 2 or non league.
    I don't think they took the Covered end. They tried at half time, i remember because my cousin was nicked at the gate behind the West as they tried to get through. The Police kept him overnight so he told his parents he'd stayed at mine.
    The following week the Mercury published a list of all those arrested. Oh how we laughed.
    They got in the covered end early virtually before everyone else got there. Despite several attempts we couldn't get them.out.
    Am I right in saying they are the only mob to have properly taken the Covered End outside of London. I know of others that have had a go....Forrest and Brum spring to mind but didn't stay in there for that long.
    Leicester took the covered end in the early 1970’s. I remember it as a nipper who used to stand on the small terrace next to the old west stand. It was a match that we lost 5-1 
    Think it was 5-0 & Eddie Firmani played Mike Kenning at left back & got sacked after the game. Certainly don't remember Leicester being in the Covered End.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,696
    cafctom said:
    cafctom said:
    Imagine being so sensitive that a stupid comment from a player about 10 years ago, and a few idiotic fans (of which we have a few ourselves), is enough for anyone to show zero sympathy for a club and generations of its fans that have followed them for 158 years. 

    Seriously, some of you need to grow up a little bit. 
    Woke nonsense . Fuck em 
    Well there's an argument full of logic and sense.
    Trying to explain to someone what it was like being a football fan in the 70s is very hard to do.
    If you experienced that era you fully understand some of the comments on here.
    If on the other hand you are too young to have lived in that era then you  have no idea what it was like. 
    Some of us have a strong dislike for Sheffield Wednesday because of what has happened down the years but I doubt you will understand why.

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  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,155
    edited October 16
    cafctom said:
    cafctom said:
    Imagine being so sensitive that a stupid comment from a player about 10 years ago, and a few idiotic fans (of which we have a few ourselves), is enough for anyone to show zero sympathy for a club and generations of its fans that have followed them for 158 years. 

    Seriously, some of you need to grow up a little bit. 
    Woke nonsense . Fuck em 
    Well there's an argument full of logic and sense.
    Trying to explain to someone what it was like being a football fan in the 70s is very hard to do.
    If you experienced that era you fully understand some of the comments on here.
    If on the other hand you are too young to have lived in that era then you  have no idea what it was like. 
    Some of us have a strong dislike for Sheffield Wednesday because of what has happened down the years but I doubt you will understand why.
    Bang on. I also said earlier every time I have been up there someone has tried to have a pop at me, including nearly getting run over twice after the cup win and the 1-1 draw a year or two earlier. 

    We have some dick heads too especially at away games but pale into insignificance compared to the long list of these idiots.

    I don't want them to go out of business, but a year or two of humble pie would be good for them. 

    Just hope our players are up for it Saturday. 
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,196
    Hadnt cared much before reading this thread! 

    Why does barry banan dislike us?!  Palace stick? 
  • I don't think more than one or two have said they want them out of existence.

    More that they won't be supporting their protests and would be quite happy for them to get their comeuppance by getting relegated.

    NB although their idiots are a minority ie less than 50%, they are a very sizeable minority.
    It's just that a minority of our fans posting on here have been lucky enough to have not met their idiot minority.

    In terms of idiot minorities they are in a pack behind Millwall, Leeds, W Ham, Chelsea etc, but they are up there in the bunch of biggest c*%ts going.
    Maybe, but I think in context, only a small minority of Charlton Life fans have bothered posting on a thread which has become a bit of an echo chamber, probably because the vast majority don't have any particular feelings either way I suspect.
    I spent 3 years in Sheffield and met plenty of Wednesday fans, the ones I met were all sound.
    As for all the talk of what happened in the 1970's.. it was 45-55 years ago. The worlds moved on somewhat since then.
    Anyway, I hope we thump them.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    The Charlton Chronicles seem anti Chansiri.
    Has that replaced the South London Press? Fair play that a local paper is in business 
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,683
    2121 said:
    Hadnt cared much before reading this thread! 

    Why does barry banan dislike us?!  Palace stick? 
    He got twisted up big time by one of our players and got a nasty injury without being touched only to receive a load of stick when going off. He didn't take it too well 🤣
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,853
    Sheffield Wednesday are a very well supported club in terms of numbers, but all that means is the numbers on the extreme end of the c*nt spectrum are higher in absolute terms, as well as being very high on the delusion quotient. Over the years, way back to relatively recently, they have shown us nothing other than aggression and contempt.

    As you sow so shall you reap. F*ck’em.
  • TootingRedArmy
    TootingRedArmy Posts: 416
    edited October 16

    As a long-time Charlton supporter, I just wanted to write a short note of support to all Sheffield Wednesday fans ahead of your protest at The Valley this Saturday. I’ve always had a soft spot for Sheffield, it’s a fantastic city. My son went to university there, so I got to know it well, and I’ve seen Charlton play at both Hillsborough and Bramall Lane a few times over the years.

    my first game at The Valley was in 1970, so I’ve lived through some of football’s darker times. I still remember being in a barber’s when the Hillsborough disaster unfolded, and watching Heysel happen live on TV memories that still sit heavily. I don’t feel any nostalgia for those days of hooliganism, i was there at “Battle of the Bridge,” Bristol City in the FA Cup &  Leeds 1987 play-off at Elland Rd. Thankfully, that side of football is mostly behind us.

    That’s why I hope Saturday’s Wednesday protest is passionate but peaceful. It’s important that fans have a voice especially when it comes to ownership and the direction of their club. Charlton supporters know more than most what it’s like to feel powerless while poor decisions are made above our heads. We’ve lived through our own battles  and we’ve come out stronger for it.

    Even with clubs we’ve had rivalry or tension with I’d never wish them to fold. Football is about emotion, belonging, and community. I thope Wednesday fans get the change they deserve. 

  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,277
    I don't think more than one or two have said they want them out of existence.

    More that they won't be supporting their protests and would be quite happy for them to get their comeuppance by getting relegated.

    NB although their idiots are a minority ie less than 50%, they are a very sizeable minority.
    It's just that a minority of our fans posting on here have been lucky enough to have not met their idiot minority.

    In terms of idiot minorities they are in a pack behind Millwall, Leeds, W Ham, Chelsea etc, but they are up there in the bunch of biggest c*%ts going.
    Maybe, but I think in context, only a small minority of Charlton Life fans have bothered posting on a thread which has become a bit of an echo chamber, probably because the vast majority don't have any particular feelings either way I suspect.
    I spent 3 years in Sheffield and met plenty of Wednesday fans, the ones I met were all sound.
    As for all the talk of what happened in the 1970's.. it was 45-55 years ago. The worlds moved on somewhat since then.
    Anyway, I hope we thump them.
     :o Bloody hooligan ! 
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,630
    edited October 16
    If we held a grudge against every football team because of run-ins with its fans during the 60s, 70s and 80s we’d be Millwall. We’re not. Personally I think Sheff Wed could already be fucked but I’m a Charlton fan, I know what it’s like when your club is in that position. If they are going to fill the away end then good on them, they might as well make the most of it because there wont be too many games next season where they will get 3,000 tickets.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    edited October 16
    I think Banan also hates us as our comms team took the absolute piss on Twitter about a miss he or something he did during one of our games... they ridiculed it if I remember correctly.  So he wasn't happy about that and when we got relegated he tweeted about us being relegated along the lines of good riddance or something.