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"Oh Ive got a mate who supports Charlton"

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,718
    edited April 7
    Weegie Addick said:
    “I’ve lost track. What league are you in these days?”
    Was said to us by 2 Chelsea supporters on the train into London Victoria on play-off final day. They were going up to Forest for their Premier League match. 

    Surprised me that supporters going on an away trip (so not just your casual fans) had no idea what League we were in let alone not realising it was the Play off finals that day.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,529
    stockportugaladdick said:
    Shortly after moving up north, I spoke to a lad and asked him who he supported but he said he was not really into football but he did ask who I supported.
    On answering, he looked a bit puzzled and asked which league we were in, I told him and he then said he had no idea Chorlton even had a football team!
    He was on about Chorlton-cum-Hardy, a suburb of Manchester!
    You are so close to the true story as one of the most proper Charlton fans in existence came to support us @pork_pie

    Such a sweet but also hilariously moronic story 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,718
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Cheltenham?
    Again said to me whilst in a queue for a ski lift in Austria about 30 years ago. Had a Charlton (so red) bobble hat on although the badge was masked by my ski-goggles.

    Obviously didn't hear me clearly but as a pp said......why Cheltenham ? 
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 26,054
    edited April 7
    Usually I get that blank look of "who", followed by the rather disinterested  "oh nice" comment...some people just have no taste i've found...🤷‍♂️
  • CharltonManor1966
    CharltonManor1966 Posts: 572
    "Charlton - Nil"  (Jim Davidson)
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,334
    Oh you've got Collins  <3
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,001
    Oh!, you poor, poor bastard!
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,800
    edited April 7
    I've heard "my Grandad supports Charlton" a few times.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,266
    AFKABartram said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Cheltenham?
    I get this a lot. How unintelligible must the south London accent be that it can be confused. 
    I did notice when singing along to Amazing Grace yesterday I was singing Chull Un, Chull Un, Chull Un, Chull Un, Chull Un, Chull Urn, Chull Urn
    Which is the correct pronunciation.
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,478
    ForeverAddickted said:
    Cheltenham?
    I get this a lot.  Even at the time when Charlton were a top premiership team and Cheltenham an average non league side. 

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  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 27,538
    AFKABartram said:
    But who is your Premier League team?
    My answer to that is always ‘Charlton, when we’re in the Premier League’ before going off on a rant that they’ll never understand what it’s like to support a club where you’re actually from. 
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,456
    From my "friends"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCs9WdZfU8w&amp;t=87s
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,110
    'You used to be in the Prem until your fans decided that you could do better than Curbishley'

    🤦‍♂️ 
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,334
    Must admit here in Plymouth there seems to be a quiet respect, which seems to stem from the 5-0 and 6-1 wins.
  • agim
    agim Posts: 1,158
    "My mate had a trial with them"...
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,294
    The amount of black cabs I've been in where the driver reckons he either had trials for us or played in the youth team.

    Total bullshit merchants, but it passes the time unpicking their story in front of them ......
  • 1905
    1905 Posts: 2,784
    A few years back - a work colleague asked why I supported Charlton when they never won anything (and that coming from a frigging Spurs fan).  I just walked off.  
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,885
    Off_it said:
    The amount of black cabs I've been in where the driver reckons he either had trials for us or played in the youth team.

    Total bullshit merchants, but it passes the time unpicking their story in front of them ......
    Eh? You’re not aware of the pioneering and award winning scheme which started I think in the 1990’s in which all academy players do the knowledge? 
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,129
    Normally just a look of sheer bewilderment 
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 10,031
    None of these losers have got a clue - 

    If you support a big team, have no tie to that team and just picked it because they are big - you have wasted your chance to enjoy football at the highest levels. 

    I always have respect for a bloke that supports a non fashionable club.

    We havn't been on the radar for well over a decade - it'll take a playoff performance, a genuine brush with the Premier League for no mark glory hunters to notice us again. 



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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,603
    Off_it said:
    The amount of black cabs I've been in where the driver reckons he either had trials for us or played in the youth team.

    Total bullshit merchants, but it passes the time unpicking their story in front of them ......

    Very few black cab drivers know what south of the river means.
  • Diebythesword
    Diebythesword Posts: 742
    Off_it said:
    The amount of black cabs I've been in where the driver reckons he either had trials for us or played in the youth team.

    Total bullshit merchants, but it passes the time unpicking their story in front of them ......
    Calling bs on this one, all they ever say to me is “south east? nah mate, on my way home” 
  • pettgra
    pettgra Posts: 1,600
    You must know everyone that goes then.
    Cue laughter. Sigh.
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,231
    bobmunro said:
    Off_it said:
    The amount of black cabs I've been in where the driver reckons he either had trials for us or played in the youth team.

    Total bullshit merchants, but it passes the time unpicking their story in front of them ......

    Very few black cab drivers know what south of the river means.
    I tend to just call it bandit country, and then they know. 
  • MikeBaileysFanClub
    MikeBaileysFanClub Posts: 323
    My dad used to go to Charlton.
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 7,448
    "I remember the Omar Pouso glory years"
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,294
    bobmunro said:
    Off_it said:
    The amount of black cabs I've been in where the driver reckons he either had trials for us or played in the youth team.

    Total bullshit merchants, but it passes the time unpicking their story in front of them ......

    Very few black cab drivers know what south of the river means.
    Diebythesword said:
    Off_it said:
    The amount of black cabs I've been in where the driver reckons he either had trials for us or played in the youth team.

    Total bullshit merchants, but it passes the time unpicking their story in front of them ......
    Calling bs on this one, all they ever say to me is “south east? nah mate, on my way home” 
    You're living in the past chaps. Generally not a problem getting them to go south these days. After all, beggars can't be choosers and those fry ups and rounds of golf need paying for some how!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,268
    "Lol!" 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,483
    edited April 9
    Always ‘Chelsea?’  
    I’ve had it literally dozens of times. People hear the ‘Ch’ and their brains just take it from there. 

    Having said that, I had a new one about three weeks ago: ‘They’re my London team’. This was from a Hertfordshire based Man Utd fan. He’d even been to the play off final. 
  • ladywell_addick
    ladywell_addick Posts: 194
    "Who is your football team?"
    "Charlton"
    "yes my friend, Jorge Costa!"
    Granted that was in a bar in Porto so that was a bit of a cheat code 

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