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Friday, November 04, 2005

Ten years ago: Telly Addicks

Charlton played Sunderland in front of the cameras on Bonfire Night (a Sunday) 1995, but 11,366 still made it to The Valley to see a 1-1 draw. Liz Searl described it as 'an end-to-end game [that] was enough to take the chill off an ice-cold Valley' but the CASC website report described it as 'sporadically entertaining'.

Sunderland came out attacking and were within our penalty area in ten seconds. Newton scored on our first attack (11 minutes), but Sunderland soon made it 1-1 and we were glad to keep it at that. Walsh was particularly ineffective and Robson wasn't much better, Newton deservedly man of the match. Salmon had to be substituted (thigh strain) by Ammann on 26 minutes.

Newton (No.7) wore No.9 shorts and Robson (No.9) wore No.7 shirts. The suspended Robinson normally wore the No.9 shorts, but they were too long for Robson.

The programme highlighted the first Rugby League game at The Valley featuring the Broncos. Dean Chandler was the featured player and said that his worst characteristic was his laziness which perhaps explains why he is now playing in the lower reaches of the non-league.

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