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Peter ‘Scoop’ Burrowes - RIP

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  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 9,089
    _MrDick said:
    What a shocker .. He’s been around the club forever. Always remember as a kid tuning into LBC to get the football scores on a Saturday afternoon when we were away from home. Peter was our roving reporter and you could hear his dulcet tones down the other end of a crackly phone line. If we were winning, he had excitement in his voice. But more often than not it was the sound of disappointment. RIP Scoop. A true Charlton legend. Signing off .. ‘This is Peter Burrows, for IRN sport at the Valley’
    Great post.

    I'm another of that generation that used to listen to LBC to get a score flash from Peter in the 70s. Far simpler times in those days.

    And now another legend from the past sadly gone.

    RIP Peter.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 25,415
    RIP Scoop
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,304
    Legend. Pure and simple.

    RIP Peter
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,692
    Sad news, Charlton Legend.

    RIP Peter
  • McCartney
    McCartney Posts: 397
    Very sad as with many I remember him as the voice of our away mostly disappointments on the radio in the mid 70's onwards  and also crackling through the tannoy at reserve games at Welling.
  • ecclesaddick
    ecclesaddick Posts: 434
    R.I.P Peter
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 11,074
    RIP Peter. 
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 1,062
    edited June 11
    RIP Peter,

    Remember him from clubcall back in the day when that was where you got the latest news!
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 6,086
    RIP Scoop
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,882
    edited June 11
    Another brick in the wall has been removed……...scoop was part and parcel of the very fabric that was Charlton.
    One of those faces you invariably came across on any visit to The Valley……he seemed to be everywhere, walking around the West Stand with team sheets, little scraps of paper with various latest bits of team news and tittle tattle from the dressing room which he would pass on to various contacts in the press box or TV gantry.
    It seemed like everyone knew who Scoop was……there’ll never be another quite like him.
    RIP….…Scoop….…RIP.

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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,606
    Rest in Peace Peter. 

  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 19,232
    Bumped into him at a T20 match at Canterbury several seasons ago & exchanged greetings even though we'd never actually met before. 

    Sleep tight, Peter.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,452
    RIP Scoop.
    Remember getting some player tickets from him at Goodison many years ago.

    A true Charlton legend.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,698
    RIP an absolute Charlton man
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,374
    A sad day. 

    His reports were always eagerly awaited on.

    I seem to remember a paper called, The Mercury or am I getting mixed up with something else?

    RIP ‘Scoop’
  • barstool
    barstool Posts: 1,419
    sad news, one of the great sports writers 
  • clive
    clive Posts: 20,444
    sillav nitram said:
    A sad day. 

    His reports were always eagerly awaited on.

    I seem to remember a paper called, The Mercury or am I getting mixed up with something else?

    RIP ‘Scoop’
    Peter wrote for the Kentish Independent, Maurice Woolf covered Charlton for The Mercury.
  • bertpalmer
    bertpalmer Posts: 1,805
    Another great Charlton man gone,RIP Peter
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 15,137
    RIP
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 5,036
    RIP .."Scoop" ..Will be missed by us all..especially the older generation and sincere thanks for you did for the supporters 

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  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 8,787
    Sad news - Scoop would ring my dad up after every Charlton match - we'd normally be in the car on the way home for home games and the call consisted of my dad saying hello Peter, the radio being turned down and then my dad talking non stop for 5 minutes about the game. Scoop would be scooping up the views / info - its what he did and as others have said, he is a Charlton legend, no question. When my kids were little, grandad would say he'd been chatting to scoop and they thought he was talking about Scoop, as in Bob the Builders 'Scoop, Muck and Dizzy' - sadly, another of the older generation bites the dust - RIP Scoop.
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,102
    My old dad always used to say hello to him when the bumped into each other at the footy, my Dad used to play for Plumstead Rovers and he told me "Scoop" was their manager cum taxi driver. I remember as a lad being squeezed in the back of a Vauxhall Cresta estate with half a team of players (all in full kit & wearing boots) being driven up to Plumstead Common for a game.

    He will always be the depressing voice on the radio telling us we've let another goal in.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,954
    Longest chat I had with Peter was on the train to Wembley for the BFG winner against Sunderland.
    Also saw him at Canterbury on numerous occasions when Kent were playing.

    I can't remember a time when Peter Burrowes wasn't involved with Charlton and doing reports back in the day.

    RIP
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 6,005
    RIP Peter.
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 4,125
    RIP Peter. Fondly remembered for his newspaper reports and countless mostly disappointing radio updates on LBC and others.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,577
    RIP Scoop
    Gone but never forgotten. 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,486
    Can they name the Press Room after him as a small token perhaps ?
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 16,383
    RIP Scoop - he's been in and around Charlton my whole life, my Dad knew him well
  • last_line
    last_line Posts: 627
    RIP Scoop
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,225
    RIP.
    I always associate him with the Kentish Independent.
    Used to love his reports and stories.

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