Blackburn Rovers 0 Charlton Athletic 1

It’s been a busy weekend, but the smile across my mush has hardly disappeared after a great result up at Ewood Park on Saturday. It was another sterling display against ‘superior’ opposition. Fluid in the 1st half, rugged determination in the 2nd.

Typical Charlton confounding the form book. The Addicks will bugger up anyone’s fixed odds!

It was Simon Church who grabbed an excellent winning goal after a confidence-boosting international break. The fortnight off did the rest of the squad good as well, and it was interesting to read that Powell cited the excellent behind closed doors win at West Ham as one of the factors behind the victory.

I was also interested to note that Powell took the whole squad up to Lancashire on the Friday.

“I bought every player up today. I left four out but they are part of today because we have trained all together, and we came up yesterday on the train. I want us to say that we care and we are committed to the cause each and every one of us, and that includes the staff.”

They showed the brave few hundred and us following it remotely how much they are committed particularly those last 20 minutes plus the 6 minutes of added time. If you could pick a way to win on the road, yesterday’s type of result and performance is one of my personal favourites. A second clean sheet and we have a little run on the go plus with talismen Jackson and Kermorgant back we can afford to smile. Still.

Addick Bloggers at Ewood Park: Chris Powell’s Flat Cap
Powell-ometer: Not only the man-management was right today, but tactically Powell was spot on.
Elsewhere: Burnley opened up a 2-point gap at the top winning at Ipswich as QPR were held at Millwall. Leicester are 3rd after beating Huddersfield 2-1, Blackpool are into 5th after beating Wigan 1-0 with a Tom Ince penalty and Reading move into the top 6 after thrashing Doncaster 4-1 Forest and Bournemouth draw 1-1 after Marc Pugh scored an equaliser in stoppage time. Barnsley held off a late Middlesbrough fightback to hold on for a win that moves them off the bottom of the table, Bolton and Sheffield Wednesday shared two goal and Semedo was sent off. Derby won impressively 3-2 at Watford, Yeovil and Brighton was scoreless and today Leeds hammered Birmingham 4-0, for who Robert Lee’s oldest son Oliver made his debut.