Put the Wembley rosette back
Shrewsbury Town 4 Charlton Athletic 3
Another new chapter in cup embarrassments was inserted into the burgeoning book called ‘Charlton Athletic – the Cup Dream 1948 and Onwards’ last night. I mean how many more ways can they humiliate us? Ok, don’t answer that.
I’ll tell you what though, the FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round starts this weekend, why don’t we enter that and get beat by Chiddlington Rovers of the Kleenex 4 ply toilet paper league and be done with it?
Onto the team then. I personally was alright with Parky playing a second string although I was taken a bit aback by the wholesale changes. But if you’d told me we would get beat 4-3 after I saw the team sheet, then I would’ve accepted that in all honesty.
I was sat on a plane in Washington DC following the start of the game on Twitter, and at 3-0 up I was told for the fourth time to turn my phone off and I gave the old bird from US Airlines a wink like it was her lucky night and I sat back with a rather large grin on my face. 3-up, whatever next….
Landing on the tarmac at Tampa airport, while others around me fought to get their bags out of the overhead, I fumbled with my phone, saw the final score and stared out of the window nodding my head like a plastic miniature dog sat on the back shelf of a Ford Escort. New season, same shit.
Thankfully my bag made it onto the carousel and the hotel had a fully stocked bar because the roll I was on, I fully expected to land in dry Utah and not Florida without my bag. As for the game, the wafer thin veneer of our squad was there for us all to see. Our reserve side was simply not good enough, especially at the back although the positives of Pawel Abbott and Lee Martin scoring three between them cannot be taken lightly and supposedly in that first half every time we attacked we looked like scoring. Mind you so did Shrewsbury in the 2nd half.
As for Shrewsbury Town, credit where credit is due, and I am glad I backed them last week to win Div 4 at 16/1.
Oh well it’s a poxy cup and we probably couldn’t afford to host a home tie in the next round anyway. Onto more pressing matters in East London on Friday.
Spare a thought for Addicks at Greenhous Meadow: Doctor Kish.
CA fact: One of my favourite ever Charlton players James Millsop Melrose ended his playing career at Shrewsbury Town.
Oh for a Jim Melrose today! Exactly what we are missing. I can still picture his hat-trick against Everton.
I can still picture the horror on my Dad’s face when the radio told us that Lennie was taking him off at St Andrews.
We’ll never score now!…..
I can still picture him clambering the fence at the Cold Blow Lane giving it the large after he scored at The Den.
My brother and I were stood in there trying hard to breathe.
As probably the only Charlton fan in Utah I have to take issue with the wild claim that we are a dry state. OK – some of the rules have been a little odd in the past but in the last year it has been permitted to brew and buy beer over 4 percent, have beer, wine or liquor WITHOUT an accompanying meal or being a member of a private club. With the liquor stores closing a 7pm (and closed on Sunday), planning is required. However, large parts of Texas really are dry. C’mon you Reds!
I was harsh SLC, I agree. When I was in Park City last year for $2 I could be a member of what appeared to be a pub and drink happily as long as I was with my two wives 🙂
I tend to leave most of my wives at home when I go out for the evening. I find it inhibits courting as older sister wives don’t take kindly to us meeting new prospects.