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Best Away Support You Have Been In?
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Yes, we'd stayed up by beating Derby a few days before and greeted each goal singing "We don't care". A right soaking as I remember.The Prince-e-Paul said:Forest in the late 80s in the open stand. Lost 4-0, and out fans singing, "We're all wet, you're not!"0 -
Orient last season has to be right up there.
Liverpool 3-3 we should have won - Steve Jones through but flagged offside.
Man U 0-1 Mark Stuart. Other OT visits (relegation when we bonded over hatred of Palarse, FAC QF and Schmeichel off, 0-0 for Costa’s last match, even the League Cup in the Holden era)
Stamford Bridge in the 70s in The Shed when we won 2-3 and the “battle” of course.
Highbury 2-2 in 89 when news had recently broken re our return to The Valley - first time I recall VFR being sung.
And Carlisle promotion under SCP.3 -
Regarding the Tottenham game in 1985; the crowd was 29,000 so I'd say probably more like 4,000 Charlton fans. Not sure if we had any seats above the away end (which was pretty small).DaveMehmet said:
My favourite ever away game. Remember at the time people were saying we took 10k but not sure how accurate that was. It was packed solid and they kept opening more sections to allow more in.holyjo said:FA Cup 3rd Round – 5 January 1985 (White Hart Lane
- Tottenham: Garth Crooks (5’)
- Charlton: Mark Aizlewood (51’)
This was a good day out. Anyone else who went able to say how many of us were there. Felt like a lot of us0 -
Battle of The Bridge was a superb day3
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they originally only opened up 1 pen in the Park Lane end but had to keep opening more as we arrived. My guess is that we were about 5 - 6k - not a patch on the Wolves Cup turn out which some on here have grossly under estimated. 100+ coaches and several specials that day if memory serves and the biggest end Ive ever been in.
QPR away we had the whole open terraced away end ( jam packed) and also loads around the ground including the Loft. Replay they brought about 300 who quickly scattered once it kicked off0 -
Guess around 5-6,000.....cold and really packed into those away pens.....maybe a few more then I suggested but no way did we have 10,000 there.DaveMehmet said:
My favourite ever away game. Remember at the time people were saying we took 10k but not sure how accurate that was. It was packed solid and they kept opening more sections to allow more in.holyjo said:FA Cup 3rd Round – 5 January 1985 (White Hart Lane
- Tottenham: Garth Crooks (5’)
- Charlton: Mark Aizlewood (51’)
This was a good day out. Anyone else who went able to say how many of us were there. Felt like a lot of us0 -
Aie aie aie aie Charlie is better than Yashin, Matt Tees is better than Eusebio & Millwall are in for a thrashing .......... ( One of these days 🤔)bolloxbolder said:
I can exclusively reveal that I started the "We all agree, Aizlewood is better than Hoddle" chantDaveMehmet said:
My favourite ever away game. Remember at the time people were saying we took 10k but not sure how accurate that was. It was packed solid and they kept opening more sections to allow more in.holyjo said:FA Cup 3rd Round – 5 January 1985 (White Hart Lane
- Tottenham: Garth Crooks (5’)
- Charlton: Mark Aizlewood (51’)
This was a good day out. Anyone else who went able to say how many of us were there. Felt like a lot of us2 -
Those few minutes during HT when D:ream was being played at OT.5
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I reckon live been to all those mentioned.
One not listed was Southampton away in the old League 1 days under Lennie. I reckon it was in either 88 or 89. We battered them the whole game before finally midway through the second half we scored the only goal through Crooks.
The support that day was incessant, helped largely by it being in the small enclosed terrace away end, which was the Dell in those days. Not word for word, but remember Lennie, saying in the following weeks programme something like " in all my years at Charlton I have never heard such loud, passionate and continuous vocal support from our fans". I guess you had to be there.5 -
Not a Charlton away support but rangers away at Bradford many years ago for Stuart mccalls testimonial, mental and took over the town, same at derby pride park for ted mcminn0
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With all due respect . . . If we had the numbers you are suggesting that day we wouldn’t have taken up a small area in the middle of the back of the North Bank. Those kind of numbers would have to have been all across the back or taking up the entire middle. We didn’t have any behind us and I vividly remember that the first time we sang the oppo cleared space on three sides of us and I saw around me 100 ish lads.charltonbob said:
100 is ridiculous unless they were fucking Spartans, 100s definitely, 1000s possibly it's a long time ago & impossible to tell even at the time but bearing in mind that we took at least 15000 to shithurst in the replay & Arsenal was our biggest game in many many years, 1000s on the North Bank isn't hard to imagine especially if you were actually there as Charlton were taking it to arsenal all through the game. Not glorifying violence just reporting on what actually happened. Like the 100s of Charlton looting Jewellers, clothes shops & off licences on the way to the game, something I don't think I've ever seen reported but it happened.TN15 said:
From what I remember a lot more than 100 in the North Bank. My first away game.HastingsRed said:
Before my time but heard it was a 'few' more then that.charltonbob said:
100 ? You're having a laugh matem_2 said:Late sixties, Arsenal away in the cup.
About 100 of us in the middle back of the north bank . . .Ducking the volleys of coins coming in from all directions . . .
Giving as good as we got right till the end of the game.
Yes we’d all wish it was more but, whether it was stupid or suicidal, arsenal supporters in those days weren’t the most fearsome bunch.0 -
I'm trying to remember if that was the game where my Mum threatened to piss on a copper's shoes because he wouldn't let her go to the loo at the end of the game. Was Ruddock playing? I have vague memories of him blazing over the bar at our end, to sarcastic cheers from us.bolloxbolder said:I reckon live been to all those mentioned.
One not listed was Southampton away in the old League 1 days under Lennie. I reckon it was in either 88 or 89. We battered them the whole game before finally midway through the second half we scored the only goal through Crooks.
The support that day was incessant, helped largely by it being in the small enclosed terrace away end, which was the Dell in those days. Not word for word, but remember Lennie, saying in the following weeks programme something like " in all my years at Charlton I have never heard such loud, passionate and continuous vocal support from our fans". I guess you had to be there.1 -
aliwibble said:
I'm trying to remember if that was the game where my Mum threatened to piss on a copper's shoes because he wouldn't let her go to the loo at the end of the game. Was Ruddock playing? I have vague memories of him blazing over the bar at our end, to sarcastic cheers from us.bolloxbolder said:I reckon live been to all those mentioned.
One not listed was Southampton away in the old League 1 days under Lennie. I reckon it was in either 88 or 89. We battered them the whole game before finally midway through the second half we scored the only goal through Crooks.
The support that day was incessant, helped largely by it being in the small enclosed terrace away end, which was the Dell in those days. Not word for word, but remember Lennie, saying in the following weeks programme something like " in all my years at Charlton I have never heard such loud, passionate and continuous vocal support from our fans". I guess you had to be there.
How wonderful .................... & did she ? It would have been worth getting nicked. Just imagine the court case, would have been hilarious 
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With all due respect, we didn't take up a small area at the back of the north bank. I can't say exactly where on the north bank the mass of Charlton were it was 57 years ago but close enough to the arsenal firm with running battles throughout the game. There were almost 56000 at the game which means that the North Bank which held close to 20000 would have been pretty full, are you seriously suggesting that if you had made yourself known that the whole of the packed north bank shrank away from you ?m_2 said:
With all due respect . . . If we had the numbers you are suggesting that day we wouldn’t have taken up a small area in the middle of the back of the North Bank. Those kind of numbers would have to have been all across the back or taking up the entire middle. We didn’t have any behind us and I vividly remember that the first time we sang the oppo cleared space on three sides of us and I saw around me 100 ish lads.charltonbob said:
100 is ridiculous unless they were fucking Spartans, 100s definitely, 1000s possibly it's a long time ago & impossible to tell even at the time but bearing in mind that we took at least 15000 to shithurst in the replay & Arsenal was our biggest game in many many years, 1000s on the North Bank isn't hard to imagine especially if you were actually there as Charlton were taking it to arsenal all through the game. Not glorifying violence just reporting on what actually happened. Like the 100s of Charlton looting Jewellers, clothes shops & off licences on the way to the game, something I don't think I've ever seen reported but it happened.TN15 said:
From what I remember a lot more than 100 in the North Bank. My first away game.HastingsRed said:
Before my time but heard it was a 'few' more then that.charltonbob said:
100 ? You're having a laugh matem_2 said:Late sixties, Arsenal away in the cup.
About 100 of us in the middle back of the north bank . . .Ducking the volleys of coins coming in from all directions . . .
Giving as good as we got right till the end of the game.
Yes we’d all wish it was more but, whether it was stupid or suicidal, arsenal supporters in those days weren’t the most fearsome bunch. Maybe they were too involved fighting the "invisible" Charlton to even notice you. At the end of the day you have your "memories" I have mine but several posters on here have confirmed that many hundreds of Charlton were involved. Where do you think the very occasional chant, "we took the north bank highbury" came from ? People just deciding to sing it as a joke ? & for what it's worth I'm not suggesting that we DID take the North Bank but neither did arsenal get the better of us. Arsenal not the most fearsome bunch in those days or now but the following season I went with some arsenal mates for spurs v arsenal & arsenal run spurs all over the place & easily took the Park Lane.
Anyway apologies all for taking the thread a little away from the intended subject 1 -
Ipswich away FAC5 1981
”The penned in hordes from the Surrey Docks vomiting expletives.”1 -
Think that was in the Express, obviously didn't know their SE London geography (nowadays they would say demographic); there were probably more Charlton fans from Mars than lived in the Surrey Docks in those days.kentred2 said:Ipswich away FAC5 1981
”The penned in hordes from the Surrey Docks vomiting expletives.”0 -
There was a bunch of spanners there that day, as I remember them singing "Miiiil" and it kicking off.Big William said:
Think that was in the Express, obviously didn't know their SE London geography (nowadays they would say demographic); there were probably more Charlton fans from Mars than lived in the Surrey Docks in those days.kentred2 said:Ipswich away FAC5 1981
”The penned in hordes from the Surrey Docks vomiting expletives.”0 -
That enclosure at Ipswich was even more rammed than the Spurs one four years later. Don't know how the numbers compare, but there were plenty of us there.0
