Oldham Athletic 0 Charlton Athletic 1

Nerves of steel. No not me I was once again pressing the refresh button on my phone like a demented one, but those wearing the red shirts yesterday. Finally men we can be proud to support.

We may have won nothing yet but I think Powell will look back at yesterday as an afternoon when all is said and done and point to a performance that summed up everything about this group of strangers he put together last summer. Powell may well be learning the coaching game but his man management abilities match him with almost anyone with decades more experience in the game. Those players will run through walls for him, it is all there for us to see.

I was sat in a Colorado hotel in front of a raging fire with my daughter drawing all over the Weekend Wall Street Journal. I couldn’t find any paper, plus it kept her happy and occupied as I sat on this oversized leather couch hand clasped around a sweaty Blackberry with a smile as wide as the mountains outside.

I wasn’t there, but hell I wish I was, but I imagined as I sat on that couch the players, including a not guilty Hollands and Wagstaff celebrating wildly in front of a worn out and hoarse group of Addicks at one end of Boundary Park and then behind them composed and smiling a strolling, thoughtful, emotional man called Chris Powell walking with his management team to join his players, his supporters, proud.

I am proud to have him. 5 games left. Come on you reds.

Addicks Bloggers at Boundary Park: Doctor Kish; Addicks Third Division Diary.
Powell-ometer: I liked his decision to go with the power of N’Guessan and rest BWP. Didn’t panic when we went to 9 men, and made two important changes after.
Elsewhere: Huddersfield blew it at home to Sheffield Wed, but the Wednesdayites then watched as city rivals United beat Bournemouth at home and some southern upstarts with 9 men won at Oldham. Huddersfield now look like play-off fodder again with MK Dons, who drew at Preston, and haven’t won in four. Stevenage lost on Friday at a rejuvenated Tranmere, and Carlisle drew at Wycombe whilst Notts County thrashed a woeful Leyton Orient 3-0. At the bottom Chesterfield, Exeter and Rochdale all lost and look finished.