This Charlton thing

I think that in order to want payback you have to have players who give a **** and apart from two or three we don't have that.

 

An academy player seen at Oakwell? Are you sure it wasn't a 12 year old on loan from Stoke?

 

If it was easy as using the inconvenience to our advantage, we'd have won when Plymouth was rearranged

 

Sure I remember this game

Did we lose 4-2 or something like that .

Never realised they were a story behind that game

Got to say I do enjoy listening to your stories especially the ones I were too young to remember

Not trying to make you look old there

 

Just out of interest if we would have won that match who would we have played and had to win to gain promotion.

Would it still have been bradford

 

Lee Bradbury hat trick redders got 2 from outside area. Had a 'dentist' appointment that day..... Well that's what school thought.

 

Think if we had beat Portsmouth and with wolves losing day after we would have been up on that result don't quote me on that tho

 

Ah but god bless John Oster.

 

Remember not wanting to socialse with any Portsmouth people as they weren't too friendly. In fact, I remember being glad to get on the bus.

I remember being about as p1ssed off as I have ever been on a journey back from an away game - thought we had blown it.

I remember then listening to Wolves game at Grimsby the following evening on a very faint signal in the car from BBC Radio Humberside - spent all night stood on the drive smoking like a trooper trying to hear what was going on amidst the hissing from the crap signal and willing Grimsby to win. Remember dancing half way down the street when they won (edit, drew).

Happy days!

 

We would've clinched promotion the following night, after Wolves had been held to a draw at home to Grimsby. That result meant Wolves couldn't reach 80 points. If we'd have beaten Portsmouth, we'd have reached that total on the Tuesday night. As it was, we did it at home to Bradford in the penultimate game of the season on the Saturday.

 

Yes, that's right - if we had won at Portsmouth then we would have been promoted the following night without playing when Grimsby drew, and would have played Bradford having already gone up. Glad it happened the way it did though - it would have been less of an "experience" if it had happened that way round.

 

Never knew that fired. Although it was only 3 days after the trip to Palace, so two long trips in the space of 3 days may have taken the toll a bit. That's my excuse anyway. For the benefit of other posters this game was (as mentioned by others) indeed 4 days before the fateful Bradford game at Oakwell on 26th April 1997.

 

Yep, just edited my post!

My memory is awful for details!

 

In actual fact we had clinched promotion after drawing at Palace, although we weren't to know it, as that put us on to 77 points and Wolves only finished with 76. So despite us all thinking we'd blown it at Pompey we were actually already promoted, sort of.

Certainly remember going to Palace with the hope that we'd clinch it that day. Very boozy day too, starting at opening time in the pubs around Victoria and finishing at chucking out time in the Spread Eagle on Parkway in Camden Town.

But I wouldn't have changed it for the day at Oakwell against Bradford. Nearly didn't get to that match, as my ticket was lost in the post and they wouldn't give me a replacement for the Ponty, which had sold out, so I ended up in the lower east near the away fans with the part-timers. It was fate though as the players were all celebrating right in front of me after Clint's goal. Well, I celebrated for a couple of seconds before 'needing a sit down!'

So glad we didn't leave it to Oxford though, as I couldn't get the day off for love nor money and it would have been the most obvious 'sickie' ever thrown!