Charlton Athletic are called ‘The Addicks’ because a local fishmonger used to give both teams haddock and chips after the match. I don’t support Charlton, but I love the club and not for that fact alone. In 1995, they flew in the face of emerging fashion and rather than abandoning their original ground and roots, they moved back to The Valley after seven years of forced exile. They are still there. A fantastic exhibition of fan power and commitment. I went to see several games in the late nineties, and the atmosphere was always very special. They let kids in for a quid and organised coaches and bussed to bring up many of the retired club supporters who had moved to the South Coast. One of the many outstanding memories of Charlton was the stretcher-bearer team, who waited pitch side, for any major injuries. Naturally, there were four of them. One bloke was around 6’8, a girl of about 4’6 and two other guys were about 5’11. This unique set of statures meant that whatever the human arrangement was at each corner, the stretcher was never level and so an injured player would end up rolling off as they were lifted from the pitch. The Charlton players seemed to be well aware of this and either avoided injury completely or would insist on ‘hobbling’ off to the sideline under their own steam. Some of the greatest players to have ever played Premier League football were jettisoned from the stretcher at Charlton Athletic.
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