Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.

Charlton continued their poor run of form to go 18 games without a win, a new club record, before finally achieving a 1 – 0 away victory over Norwich City in an FA Cup Third Round replay.

Charlton finally returned to The Valley in December 1992, celebrating with a 1 – 0 victory against Portsmouth.

Charlton finally won domestic honours with Leeds in 1968 with a controversial League Cup victory over Arsenal – the Arsenal players claimed that Charlton had committed a foul in their penalty area prior to the ball reaching Terry Cooper, who scored the only goal.

In 1969, Leeds finally got their hands on the League championship, with Charlton proving a rock at the back as the team lost just two games all season.

In 1972, Leeds finally won the FA Cup and Charlton completed his set of domestic medals.

Once his living conditions were finally looked into he was removed from his mother's care and put in " The Lillian Charlton Home for Problem Children " in New Jersey until 1956, where he rapidly seemed to improve, excelling at scholastics as well as gymnastics and amateur boxing.

* 2006 – 07 – League Cup semi-finalists, beating Premiership Charlton Athletic and Fulham away from home, and finally falling 5 – 1 to Champions Chelsea on aggregate, following a 1 – 1 draw at Adams Park.

Reardon regained the title in 1978 winning it for the sixth and final time by beating Doug Mountjoy 13 – 9 ( after trailing 7 – 2 ), Bill Werbeniuk 13 – 6, Eddie Charlton 18 – 14 and finally Perrie Mans 25 – 18 in the final.

He finally made his Liverpool debut on 20 December 1986 in a goalless league away draw with Charlton Athletic, when regular defenders Barry Venison and Mark Lawrenson were absent due to injury.

He soon had scouts from other clubs monitoring his progress, and it was Leeds who finally offered £ 30, 000 in 1973, seeing him as a long-term replacement for the ageing Jack Charlton.

Parker, who had been consistently linked with moves away from Charlton for several years, finally left the Valley on 30 January 2004 to join Chelsea on a four-and-a-half-year contract for a fee of £ 10 million after a protracted and acrimonious transfer saga.

Hulse's goal against Charlton secured Derby's Championship status in the final home game of the season.

From the late 1950s until the early 1970s, Charlton remained a mainstay of the Second Division before relegation to the Third Division in 1972 caused the team's support to drop, and even a promotion in 1975 back to the second division did little to re-invigorate the team's support and finances.

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

The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of 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.

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.

Charlton resigned his position in May 1983 ( in a season where they reached the FA Cup semi-finals, a year before promotion to the First Division ), went briefly back to Middlesbrough ( a year after relegation to the Second Division ), then became manager of Newcastle United.

Sunderland beat Charlton Athletic in the final stages of the season, where they clinched promotion with a game to spare.

Sunderland missed automatic promotion by one place in 1997 – 98, and drew 4 – 4 with Charlton Athletic in the Division play-off final.

Despite this, Lawrence not only kept Charlton in the Second Division but gained promotion to the First Division in 1986, ending Charlton's 29-year absence from the top-flight.

During the opening weeks of the 2001-02 season, his Grimsby side had briefly led Division One, sparking hopes that he could repeat the promotion success he achieved at Charlton Athletic and Middlesbrough with a much smaller club.

Always active in the organisation and promotion of the game, Charlton was awarded the Order of Australia in 1980.

Charlton went on to gain promotion as well as reach the 5th round of the FA Cup.

O ' Leary's fame at Leeds rests upon his promotion of a series of younger players, Jonathan Woodgate, Lee Bowyer, Alan Smith, Harry Kewell, Stephen McPhail, Eirik Bakke, Ian Harte and Danny Mills ( signed for £ 4M from Charlton Athletic ).

He left the club before the ageing Revie team played out its last hurrah-the 1975 European Cup final, which they lost to Bayern Munich-and joined Middlesbrough who were managed by former Leeds team-mate Charlton and had not long won promotion to the First Division.

He rapidly became the Addicks ' star player playing as a winger and helping Charlton to promotion to the First Division at the end of the 1985 – 86 season.

He was unable to establish a regular place in the side and moved to Charlton Athletic in March 1998 and helped them win promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs, playing in their dramatic win over Sunderland in the play off final, winning 7-6 on penalties after a 4-4 draw.

Forest won the title and promotion in a competitive league ( facing stiff opposition from Sunderland, Charlton and Middlesbrough ), with van Hooijdonk scoring 34 goals and building up a good partnership with strike partner Kevin Campbell, who scored 23 times.

Charlton powered strongly into the second half of the 2011 / 12 season and sealed promotion back to the Championship as Champions of League One.

An aging, respected commander Paul Blanchard, played by Charlton Heston, is on his final submarine tour before promotion to command of a submarine squadron ( COMSUBRON ).

( now Arsenal ), which was one of the largest clubs in the country, and Charlton spent the years before the First World War playing in local leagues.

In 1937, Charlton finished runners up in the First Division, in 1938 finished fourth and 1939 finished third.

When the full league programme resumed in 1946 – 47 Charlton could finish only 19th in the First Division, just above the relegation spots.

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.

While there is no documentary evidence connecting Oxford ( or any authorial candidate ) to the plays of Shakespeare, Oxfordian researchers, including Mark Anderson and Charlton Ogburn, believe the connection is provided by considerable circumstantial evidence inferred from Oxford's connections to the Elizabethan theatre and poetry scene ; the participation of his family in the printing and publication of the First Folio ; his relationship with the Earl of Southampton ( believed by most Shakespeare scholars to have been Shakespeare's patron ); as well as a number of specific incidents and circumstances of Oxford's life that Oxfordians believe are depicted in the plays themselves.

Connecticut-based Charlton Comics ' Link to the First Blockbuster of 2009 ", Fairfield County Weekly, March 5, 2009.

The club was almost relegated to the Fourth Division in 1976, but a revival under the management of Jack Charlton, and the aid of coach Tony Toms, and after Charlton resigned in 1983, Howard Wilkinson, saw them return to the First Division in 1984.

A year earlier, he had been a key player in the side that reached the First Division play-off final, only to suffer a penalty shoot-out defeat to Charlton Athletic after a 4 – 4 draw at Wembley.

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He scored 21 goals in the English First Division 1999 – 2000 season for the Trotters and helped them to the semi-finals of both the FA Cup and League Cup, including scoring the only goal in a tense FA Cup quarter-final game against Charlton Athletic.

After graduating from Lilleshall, Parker signed for Charlton Athletic as a trainee and made his first team debut as a substitute against Bury in the First Division on 23 August 1997, a game which ended 0 – 0.

In October 2000 Charlton, then in the Premier League, loaned Parker to First Division side Norwich City for two months to give the England under-21 international some first team experience.

Gray gained unwanted attention a year later, in May 1998, when he missed the decisive penalty during a shoot-out in the First Division playoff final after a 4 – 4 draw with Charlton Athletic, which could have taken Sunderland back into the Premier League.

It was the venue for the 1987 play-off final replay, in which Charlton Athletic beat Leeds United to remain in the Football League First Division, and for the final of the FA Vase in 2004 and 2006.

First, Trevor Chamberlain became the new owner of the club in 1945 and appointed his friend Arthur Charlton as manager.

Most observers tipped Wimbledon to go straight back down to the Second Division in 1986 – 87, but the team got off to a dream start in the First Division and a 1 – 0 win at Charlton Athletic on 2 September 1986 put them top of the league briefly.

In the same season the First Round Proper of the FA Cup was reached once again as Charlton Athletic were the visitors to the Angel Ground.

He guested for clubs including Bolton Wanderers, Charlton Athletic, Wrexham, and Everton during the Second World War, and made his debut for Manchester United on 26 October 1946 in a 3 – 0 home win against Sunderland in the First Division.

Charlton Horethorne in the 21st century is a village with successful businesses, a primary school and a village hall that was purchased in 1923 from the Army as a memorial to the fallen in the First World War.