Courtesy of poster from CL, Alliwibble

The entire video of the last game at the Valley in 1985 featuring a young exuberant 25 year old Tel.....bet none of ya spot me in this one.....were you there, are you in the video, what was your story?

Tell us all about it below....

http://www.vimeo.com/groups/charltonlife

If you need a password its Charlton1985

Bought back a lot of memories for me.....

Saw this on cl. My server is to dlow to b able to watch it.

I was there, dunno if I'm in the vid, have my piece of turf in the back yard of my dad's house.

I didn't recognise half the players let alone spot you Tel. Whether it was the lack of atmosphere, the sight of a large empty terrace, or the lack luster play I thought that it was a pretty dire match.

awful standard of football and we came second that season.....I dont know why, but I followed us all over the country that season...anybody remember the 50 a side football match at Gay meadow?

No. What was it about?

I was there in the Covered end along with my dad, brother and sister in law. It was all a bit surreal, but I do remember cursing the bastards for digging up the pitch at the end lol.
Who would have imagined back then that one day we'd end up with the Valley being the magnificent stadium that we have today. It's just a shame that the team is actually in a worse position now than it was then.

Too true martin....I stayed for about an hour afterwards and seeing as loads of people had dug the turf, I took some from the south end by the left hand pylon as you view it from the covered end.......it dies anyway!

We had two coachloads of Charlton at Shrewsbury turn up in the car park outside their old ground and the next thing was we all started kicking a ball about and it ended up and |I kid you not wit about 50 on each side.....the other funny event was the man walking across the pitche before KO with a coracle on his back so he could retrieve the balls from the river....happy (ish) days

I just about remember the game, I was about 10. We got there a bit late and struggled to find a seat but ended up in what is now the Jimmy Seed stand. Can't remember a lot about the game but I do remember asking my dad why someone had sprayed 'CAFE' all over the toilet walls, obviously well impressed by his son's reading ability he said he would explain when we got home. (yes I now realise it was CAFC). We took a bit of the turf from just by where the police box is now and took it home, it filled a warn out bit of our garden nicely until about 6 months later we had our drive way widened and well it went.

Wasn't at the Shrewsbury game but do remember being at Old Trafford for a game when we got relegated one year. We were stuck in the ground until it emptied but the home fans wouldn't leave until we had. About an hour after the final whistle with people swapping shirts and season tickets through the fences the police moved the home fans out side where they formed a walkway for us to walk through to the coaches. Don't like anything to do with Utd but that is a fond memory.

Received the following from brian in pennsylvain.




yes mate i was their was a very sad day .....many a time when one was in charlton drinking i would just go to the empty ground at night and just sit their a remember the good old times...but may it was was for the best just look at the ground now......come on you reds................

I like the historical Envelope thing....thats a real blast from the past isnt it...bit like a first day issue.....
Keep the stories coming...Lee, I like the Man U story, not heard that one before.