in 1937, a heavy veil of cloud covered the whole of Britain. In London happened to countless accidents, and historically the day has been recorded as one of the worst in terms of the common phenomenon that affects the Island. Many races were cancelled, but in the “Stamford Bridge”, the referee decided that it could be the showdown of Chelsea with Charlton. Some time interrupted for a few minutes and ordered again the continuation of the.
As flowed the time, with the score at 1-1, the goalkeeper of the guests, Sam Bartram was feeling proud for his teammates. The fog had covered everything heavy the field and I don’t see anyone in front of him. “Perfect, we’re inflicting. We have placed them in their area and the hammer at him”, he confessed his thoughts years later in his autobiography. “I felt so happy and sure that I will put the goal. Yes, I was sure that I detected the figures of the defence, to have climbed to the center”.
If she had been a long time since that had to happen in the slightest in the race, I was troubled. Not even the fact that I heard voices from the podium. “I don’t know what happened. I guess I was so focused on looking through the fog, which had absorbed and didn’t understand what was going on”, he confessed in the book of life and of his career. All of a sudden he saw dimly a figure approaching him. Prepared for surgery.
However, was surprised when he saw that the man go to him, he was a police officer. “What the hell are you doing here?” asked Bartram. “My friend, the game is stopped for 15 minutes. There is no one else in the empty field. Only you,” was the reply of the officer, who smiled ironically. A few minutes later, Bartram was in the locker room, where he knew the apotheosis and the teasing of teammates, having just created a story that would indelibly written in the charts of English football.
Sam Bartram, of course, didn’t stay famous on the Island only for her narrative. Historians of the ball consider him as the top ποÏτιÎÏο ever that it was not ever on the Highway. A miner who played center forward in his youth, wore the gloves when he took the team and pulled them ever again. Born in 1914, he served in all the way only Charlton (1934-1956). With it he won the Cup in 1947 and remains one of the best regardless of position who have worn the shirt.
The weird this guy was from the showman of the era. He liked to play with his feet outside the area long before that, regarded as a key skill for the position with the No1. Also, did dribbling to the opponents strikers, but also gestures to the fans. A characteristic moment is when the repeated in those of Portsmouth in a match of 1938, and they went into the field and threw two bricks at the head, leaving him unconscious.
With the Bartram down from the rafters of the Charlton made great vintages and the 1936-37 were found for the first time in 1 class, to terminate finally in 2nd place, doing terrible things. The legendary ποÏτιÎÏο played for the last time in March of 1956 in a surprising 2-0 against Arsenal. He was 42 years old. The next year the team was demoted.
However, that the figure of the redhead with the gloves still on his own down from the rafters, hoping for a surgery and don’t see anything from the fog, will never be forgotten by the English, who know how to maintain their traditions and to glorify the heroes of Sunday. The Bartram passed away in 1981, but the statue is located at the main entrance of the “Valley”, in order to take care of him forever.
The goalie who waited 15 minutes just a phase, but the match was interrupted
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