Been looking for an Addicks thread & just found this one after a long time searching on page 25 of the English football category.
Just not a popular club these days I guess. Still at least they're back in the Championship. Very average season so far though.
Was nice to see them on the tele here for the first time in years a month ago on Sommet Sports - and in that game were mediocre and lost AT HOME to Millwall of all people (blaaaarrrrrgh!!!)
Actually I have rellies from Charlton AND Millwall...
My mum's from Charlton SE7 (Elliscombe Road) and my grand dad was at both Charlton's post-war FA Cup Finals.
I'm still trying to get over the disappointment of relegation from the Premier League not long after Charlton's centennial year....anyway, I've got the Centennial DVD which is great....
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Some fascinating details on "great English football comebacks" in the Herald this week before the All Whites game:
I had never heard of this one involving Charlton but isn't it incredible? One player scored four times in the last 27 mins (& created two others):
2.Charlton Athletic 7 v Huddersfield Town 6, 1957:
With Huddersfield leading 5 to 1 with just 27 minutes remaining in their second division clash, Charlton fans on the terraces saw little reason to see the game out and left in droves. Cue Charlton left winger Johnny Summers, who pulls off an absolute blinder, adding four goals to the one he bagged in the first half. Summers also assists with two others to lead Charlton to victory.
(This match has its own fascinating detailed Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Athletic_F.C._7%E2%80%936_Huddersfield_Town_F.C.
Amazingly Charlton were down to ten men when they fought back too!
More interesting detail from Wiki: Huddersfield were managed by Bill Shankly pre- Liverpool glory days...
Magic boots were involved: At half-time "Summers also replaced his old boots, which were on the verge of falling apart, with some new ones."
Within three years, Charlton were involved in another match in which their opponents scored six goals at The Valley but failed to win. On 22 October 1960, they hosted Middlesbrough in a Second Division match that finished 6–6,[1] one of only two Football League matches in history to finish thus.
Summers also scored five goals in a Second Division game against Portsmouth in October 1960, but died of cancer in June 1962, aged just 34.
The match is remembered over 50 years later, and was chosen by The Observer in 2001 as the sole football representative in its list of the 10 greatest comebacks of all time in any sport, calling this match "the most remarkable comeback in football history".
I faintly remember this Tranmere comeback under John Aldridge:
3.Tranmere Rovers 4 v Southampton 3, FA Cup, 2001:
John Aldridge's first division team of journeymen and honest triers were 3-nil down at the break against favourites Southampton in the 2001 FA Cup showdown fifth round replay at Prenton Park. But after 83 minutes, the Rovers somehow take the lead, netting four goals, and then hold on to win. "I was there, it was emotional," said Herald chief reporter Stuart Dye.