career as a football columnist for The People. He spent his final years in Harpenden. Fog Incident Bartram was involved in a well reported incident when thick fog closed in on a game he was playing against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge: "Soon after the kick-off," he wrote in his autobiography, "[fog] began to thicken rapidly at the far end, travelling past Vic Woodley in the Chelsea goal and rolling steadily towards me. The referee stopped the game, and then, as visibility became clearer, restarted it. We were on top at this time, and I saw fewer and fewer figures as we attacked steadily." The game went unusually silent but Sam remained at his post, peering into the thickening fog from the edge of the penalty area. And he wondered why the play was not coming his way. "After a long time," he wrote, 'a figure loomed out of the curtain of fog in front of me. It was a policeman, and he gaped at me incredulously. "What on earth are you doing here?" he gasped. "The game was stopped a quarter of an hour ago. The field's completely empty'.And when I groped my way to the dressing-room, the rest of the Charlton team, already out of the bath and in their civvies, were convulsed with laughter." Legacy and personal life In 1976/7 an estate was built at the Jimmy Seed end of the ground consisting of a block of flats and seven houses, named Sam Bartram Close. In 2006, a nine-foot statue of Sam Bartram was erected outside Charlton's stadium, The Valley, to celebrate the club's centenary. Fifty years after his retirement, Charlton named Bartram's bar and restaurant at the Valley in his honour. He was the nephew of Jimmy Bartram, a forward who featured for Falkirk in Scotland. Managerial statistics References External links 1914 births 1981 deaths Sportspeople from Jarrow Footballers from Tyne and Wear Footballers from County Durham English footballers Association football goalkeepers Boldon Community Association F.C. players Charlton Athletic F.C. players York City F.C. wartime guest players Liverpool F.C. wartime guest players West Ham United F.C. wartime guest players English Football League players FA Cup Final players England B international footballers England wartime international footballers English football managers Luton Town F.C. managers York City F.C. managers English Football League managers Brentford F.C. wartime guest players English miners English columnists