Nostalgia: it ain't as good as it use to be

[Yorkshire Blue]

Playing Charlton always seemed to produce a cracking game, so what are your most memorable moments from this fixture over the years?

* Winning 3-0 at the Valley. A teenage Leo Roget made his debut, Steve Tilson (whatever happened to him?) scored with his right foot and whilst we are still jumping up and down and celebrating, Andy Thomson chases a back pass and gets a foot in between the keeper and the defender to make it 3-0. This was around the time we use to celebrate having a shot in an away game.
* An absorbing Christmas encounter at Roots Hall that had everything: goals, sending offs, penalties and I think a 4-2 win.
* After a goalless first half, going 3-0 down at the Valley, drag it back to 3-3 only for Garry Bloody Nelson to set up a Charlton winner
* That talentless lump Carl Leaburn scoring without fail his annual goal
* Dean Austin finally breaking our penalty duck (or was it starting another one?) in a 1-1 draw
* Steve Brown going in goal, and then not having a shot to save
* Chrissy Powell getting picked for England

 

[NZamba Legend]

John Neilson coming on as sub on the left wing and producing possibly the most inept display I've ever seen from a Southend player (and yes that includes Rio Alderton).

 

[Fish]

- Ending our league record (I think it's still a record??) of consecutive missed penalties in a game where they missed 2. Did anyone actually watch our penalty that day? I recall everyone turning away.
- Seeing Keith Jones out-jump Carl Leaburn for a header.

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

* Dean Austin finally breaking our penalty duck (or was it starting another one?) in a 1-1 draw

I remember that game, we ended our sequence of 7 penalty misses in a row through that Dean Austin penalty then Charlton missed two penalties in the second half!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

- Ending our league record (I think it's still a record??) of consecutive missed penalties in a game where they missed 2. Did anyone actually watch our penalty that day? I recall everyone turning away.
- Seeing Keith Jones out-jump Carl Leaburn for a header.

Great call.

 

[BrettieAngell]

I remember that game, we ended our sequence of 7 penalty misses in a row through that Dean Austin penalty then Charlton missed two penalties in the second half!

Also there was 2 sending-offs if I remember rightly, crazy game that was!

I wasn't there but coming back from 3-0 down only to concede a last minute goal at the Valley.

 

[DTS]

I threw a half a pie at a steward in the 3-0 victory after he ejected a Southend youngster and totally got away with it....Happy times.

 

[Rayleigh boy]

interesting how they have developed the club over the last decades -

used to be a ***** 8k if you are lucky club - now a ***** 20k if you are lucky club

 

[Hotman]

my most memorable moment against charlton is nearly being hit by a shot in the south lower during a 1-1 draw, and getting kicked out of the south upper when we went upstairs for the second half, during the mid 90's

 

[Mick]

interesting how they have developed the club over the last decades -

used to be a ***** 8k if you are lucky club - now a ***** 20k if you are lucky club

Charlton's return to the Valley was a monumental achievement by their supporters.

Go back further, they were a 40K club and on occasions had crowds of over 70k.

They even had 75,000 in the mid seventies .... but that was for The Who.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Playing Charlton always seemed to produce a cracking game, so what are your most memorable moments from this fixture over the years?

* .
* An absorbing Christmas encounter at Roots Hall that had everything: goals, sending offs, penalties and I think a 4-2 win.
* After a goalless first half, going 3-0 down at the Valley, drag it back to 3-3 only for Garry Bloody Nelson to set up a Charlton winner
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The christmas encounter was boxing day 1993, several weeks after Judas Fry jumped ship. We ended up with 10 men, they had 9.
The 7 goal thriller which i think was about 1994 saw them score their winner a couple of minutes after we had pulled it back to 3-3.