Sheffield Wednesday 0 Charlton Athletic 1

As they would say in Sheffield, S6…. “An absolute fooking massive result that was.”. The locals will be crying into their chips and gravy tonight!

For a change I listened to the Wednesday commentary on Player, which was as expected horribly biased but occasionally it’s nice to get an opposition view. However I lost count of how many times a smile crossed my face as the two Wednesday-ites urged the long ball or long throw forward and blamed the referee for everything. Mind you the co-commentator, who I later found out was a certain John Pearson, did say we were the best team to come to Hillsborough this season and was complimentary about a number of our players, namely Green, Hamer and BWP.

As the board went up for 4 minutes of injury time I thought dear old John was going to have a kitten as he was incredulous it wasn’t 7 or 8 due to our “time wasting tactics” and all the substitutions.

Johnnie Jackson’s wonder free-kick was the difference but it was a surprise we didn’t punish them again on the break. In fact a few more injury time minutes might well have seen us grab a second after Weaver thwarted Darel Russell right at the whistle.

In injury time we did have to rely on Wiggins to clear off the line as a huge cheer went up and then the two Wednesday commentators frothed at the mouth over whether it crossed the line. I blame the referee!

The Sheffield commentators were surprised to see Gary I am better than some Premier League managers Megson replace width with brute force as the game reached the last 15 minutes, but it summed up Megson’s philosophy. Meanwhile Powell reacted by packing his midfield with the goalscoring threat of Pritchard, Hollands, Russell and Jackson.

Tempers clearly ran high, and I heard of some trouble after but this it was Chris Powell had to say of his opposite number.

It was another performance to be proud off and my heart was thumping as I listened to the travelling Addicks serenade the boys at the end although sadly many (maybe up to a couple of hundred) didn’t make it due to train problems.

So a significant victory over a promotion rival on their turf, where they were previously unbeaten. Proud to be an Addick.

Addick Bloggers at Hillsborough: Addicks Third Division Diary; And Nothing Else Matters; Kings Hill Addick; Doctor Kish
Powell-ometer: Calmness personified.
Elsewhere: Sheffield United won comfortably at Bury to stay in our tracks, Huddersfield left it late to beat Oldham at home and Jordan Rhodes didn’t score. Manager-less Stevenage marched into the top 6 scoring five at poor old Rochdale. Graham Westley watched from the stands as his new club PNE beat a plucky Wycombe 3-2. Bournemouth beat County 2-1 and Dave Mooney scored for the O’s as they drew at home to Chesterfield.