He worked his way through the pecking order of teams, scoring regularly for the youth and reserve sides before he was handed his first team debut against Charlton Athletic in October 1956.

Charlton played 14 times for United in that first season, scoring twice on his debut and managing a total of 12 goals in all competitions, and including a hat-trick in a 5 – 1 away win over Charlton Athletic in the February.

Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English football club based in Charlton, London.

The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area, including East Street Mission and Blundell Mission, combined to form Charlton Athletic.

In 1984 financial matters came to a head and the club went into administration, to be reformed as Charlton Athletic ( 1984 ) Ltd.

In a busy summer, Powell brought in 19 new players and after a successful season, on 14 April 2012, Charlton Athletic won promotion back to the Championship with a 1 – 0 away win at Carlisle United.

The progression of the nickname can be seen in the book The Addicks Cartoons: An Affectionate Look into the Early History of Charlton Athletic, which covers the pre-First World War history of Charlton through a narrative based on 56 cartoons which appeared in the now defunct Kentish Independent.

Charlton Athletic featured in the ITV one-off drama, Albert's Memorial, shown on 12 September 2010, and starring David Jason and David Warner.

Jason's character, Harry, is revealed to be a Charlton Athletic fan.

Harry later buries his friend, Albert, played by Michael Jayston, draped in a Charlton Athletic flag, to which Frank says, " hear that ?".

He hated Charlton Athletic ", so Harry replies, " well, nobody's perfect.

The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.

In one case, The Who were due to perform at The Valley, the London ( home of Charlton Athletic F. C .).

* April 27 – FA Cup: Derby County beat Charlton Athletic in the first FA Cup final since the end of the war

The post-exhibition plan had been to convert The Dome into a football stadium which would last for 25 years: Charlton Athletic at one point considered a possible move but instead chose to redevelop their own stadium.

That year the duo, billed as Squeeze, released the non-album single " Down In The Valley " as a fundraising single for Charlton Athletic F. C.

were a once successful non-league side who groundshared with Charlton Athletic F. C.

The largest football club in the borough is Charlton Athletic F. C.

* Clive Mendonca-Footballer for Charlton Athletic.

* Bradley Wright-Phillips, Charlton Athletic footballer, son of Ian Wright and half-brother of Shaun Wright-Phillips, also born in Woolwich.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

Gregg returned to the plane to try to help the appallingly injured Busby and Blanchflower, and when he turned around again, he was relieved to see that Charlton and Viollet, both of whom he had presumed to be dead, had got out of their detached seats and were looking into the wreckage.

Charlton was the first injured survivor to leave hospital, Harry Gregg and Bill Foulkes were not hospitalized since they escaped uninjured.

Charlton and Hunt were now England's joint-highest scorers in the tournament with three each, and a final against West Germany beckoned.

Shortly before the World Cup Charlton was involved in the Bogotá Bracelet incident in which he and Bobby Moore were accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery store.

England were out and, after a record 106 caps and 49 goals, Charlton decided to end his international career at the age of 32.

Charlton finished second bottom in the Football League in 1926 and were forced to apply for re-election which was successful.

Charlton were finalists in the 1946 FA Cup, but lost 4 – 1 to Derby County.

In 1956, the then board undermined Jimmy Seed and then sacked, and Charlton were relegated the following year.

In 1979 – 80 Charlton were relegated again to the Third Division, but won immediate promotion back to the Second Division in 1980 – 81.

Despite the move away from the Valley, Charlton were promoted to the First Division as Second Division runners-up at the end of 1985 – 86, and remained at this level for four years ( achieving a highest league finish of 14th ) often with late escapes, most notably against Leeds in 1987, where the Addicks triumphed in extra-time of the play-off final replay to secure their top flight place.

Under his sole leadership Charlton made an appearance in the playoffs in 1996 but were eliminated by Crystal Palace in the semi-finals and the following season brought a disappointing 15th place finish.

Charlton won 7 – 6 on penalties, with the match described as " arguably the most dramatic game of football in Wembley ’ s history ", and were promoted to the Premier League.

On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.

After spending almost the entire 2009 / 2010 season in the top six of League One, Charlton were defeated in the Football League One play-offs semi-final second leg on penalties to Swindon Town, condemning Charlton to another season in the third tier of English Football.

Charlton were rare among football clubs, in that they reserved a seat on their directors ' board for a supporter.

The exception came during the 1923 – 24 season when Charlton wore the colours of Catford Southend as part of the proposed move to Catford, which were light and dark blue stripes.

Banks had little to do during the second half but his known powers of concentration were required when Jack Charlton gave away a dubious free kick 30 yards from goal.

George and Caroline were already living separately, and in August 1797 Caroline moved to a private residence: The Vicarage or Old Rectory in Charlton, London.

The first commercially produced card was created in 1861 by John P. Charlton of Philadelphia, who patented a postal card, selling the rights to Hymen Lipman, whose postcards, complete with a decorated border, were labeled " Lipman's postal card.

With managers such as Jack Charlton and then Willie McFaul, Newcastle remained in the top-flight, until key players such as Waddle, Beardsley and Paul Gascoigne were sold, and the team was relegated once more at in 1989.