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Lewis Cup Final - Charlton Athletic Supporters Club

Carl Leaburn
Carl Leaburn Posts: 1,118
in General Charlton

Anyone got any information on the below programme that I just added to the collection. Maybe someone was actually involved or knows someone that was.

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  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,336
    Not specifically but it was also competed in 1963, also on a Sunday morning in Ilford.

    https://www.indyrs.co.uk/2021/06/the-1963-supporters-club-sunday-football-league-lewis-cup-final-qpr-scfc-v-manchester-united-scfc-london-branch/
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,336
    Also, a little more info here

    https://www.footballprogrammecentre.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=115293&sid=2c687eb7b45592dc3a9ca8325978570d
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,433
    Why did we play in green shirts? 
  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,877
    edited November 7
    1965 pre-dates my involvement with the Supporters' Club by a few years, but my recollection is that it didn't really have strong links with the Football Club.

    It would organise away travel for members (distinct from booking directly with Lewis Coaches which anyone could do) and would 'stay behind' after the game, entertained by the home team Supporters' Club.  I recall that we were once filmed by the TV crew of Panorama at Coventry as an example of how some Clubs were avoiding/dealing with hooliganism.  I also remember being invited into a wedding reception in Derby as they were using the same venue (different room).

    Our coach would leave the party at closing time and we'd get back to Charlton at a ridiculous hour.

    So, I think the CASC team would just have been made up by lads.  If you look at the player profiles they have 'old-timers' aged 26 or so.  And the kit would have been whatever they could get hold of ... no connection to the Football Club, no replica shirts.

    The other feature of the Supporters' Club was the end-of-season dance ... a tradition that survives to this day.  Who will ever forget my legendary waltz with Paul Went's wife ... a tradition that doesn't survive to this day.

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