Nov 28
The FA Cup 2nd Round replay has been chosen by ITV to be shown live. ITV4 to be exact. Woop, woop.
There are only two replays and both will be on the box. Dagenham & Redbridge and Gillingham is the other. Our game will be at 7.45pm on Wednesday 7th, December.
Please click for moreOne foot in the 3rd Round draw, and then a Stockport 97th minute equalizer gives us another game we don’t need.
Another abysmal performance from Ben Garner’s side. It was a rubbish start and a rubbish end with various elements of rubbish in between.
Please click for moreAmong the despondency, some positive news for Charlton fans today.
The club have announced a multi-year partnership with Greenwich-based Meantime Brewery. The brewery is near the Blackwell Tunnel approach and just a mile and a bit away from The Valley.
Please click for moreHappy Thanksgiving to my American friends.
There’s a lot to like about Thanksgiving – eating, drinking, the complete removal of pressures to buy gifts and sport, a lot of it, and this year the added bonus of World Cup soccer football.
As articulate and intelligent as Jayden Stockley comes across off the pitch, he has shown us before that he doesn’t always take those brain cells onto the field.
Case in point last Saturday in the 22nd minute when a supposed intentional swinging elbow has had him today retrospectively sent off and banned for 3 games.
Please click for moreThey will be dancing in the streets of Newcastle Riyadh tonight. What an incredible and deserved win by Saudi Arabia. The tournament has properly started now.
That was pitiful.
Hands up, and with apologies to those that had to grin and bear it, notably those who were in Staffordshire, I didn’t watch the game. I was watching my daughter at the national schools debate tournament. No passing along the back line, no lack of effort, no defensive cock up’s, no lack of creativity just courageous and passionate kids expressing themselves.
Please click for moreAfter biding his time sat on the bench all season Craig MacGillivray will miss tomorrow’s game at Port Vale, so Ashley Maynard-Brewer will make his full league debut.
MacGillivray suffered delayed concussion after the game against Burton following a knock in the face in the first half. The club kept it quiet that the Scot had to be admitted to a local hospital after feeling unwell in the dressing rooms after the game.
Please click for moreOne would imagine that Craig MacGillivray is now the owner for the time being of Addicks’ the no.1 shirt. He was always going to replace Joe Wollacott whilst he was in Qatar, but following Joe’s finger surgery this week you have to think that the Scotsman will be in the sticks until well into the new year.
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I don’t know about you but the fact that the World Cup starts on Sunday in what will be a dreary day in November is just odd. There’s that and also the fact I feel a little dirty if I’m honest watching. I’m not normally of high moral standing, but the fact that Qatar even got given the rights to hold the planet’s best month of sport, only held once every 48 months, or longer if it is somewhere too sweaty, is still nothing short of disgusting.
Please click for moreSan Francisco’s streets were more like how I remember them last week when I was huffing and puffing up and down those towering hills.
I was staying at the top of Nob Hill, one of the seven famous hills in the city, although the list of the city’s hills is nearer to 50.
Please click for moreUnofficial but if true devastating news from African sports journalist Gary Al-Smith that Joe Wollacott has fractured his finger and will miss the World Cup.
I mean we have some dreadful luck with injuries, but this takes the biscuit. Joe was expected to make Ghana’s final 26 and travel to their training camp on Monday.
Please click for moreAnother crazy upside down game which unfortunately glaringly exposed our deficiencies again.
Another draw, we’ve drawn half our games and despite the euphoria of Ipswich and three cup wins in a week, that was another poor display against a team we should be beating.
Please click for moreI know little or nothing of last night’s dramatic cup victory as I have spent the entire week moving around Nevada and California.
During yesterday’s game I was in the Californian desert at a gigantic casino in meetings trying to grab quick looks at my phone for updates from Hertfordshire.
Please click for moreWealdstone have confirmed on their website that Deji Elerewe has been recalled by Ben Garner following the injury yesterday to Terell Thomas.
Please click for moreQuite comfortable this afternoon in the end and another four goals scored at The Valley. Great credit to Coalville and especially Charlton fan Jake Eggleton. I hope their supporters enjoyed their afternoon and they win promotion at the end of the season.
Please click for moreTerrible news regarding the injury to Mandela Egbo. The right back who was really showing a lot of promise will need surgery next week on a ruptured quadricep.
Described by Ben Garner as a one-in-a-million injury after Egbo kicked his own foot early in the Ipswich game which caused the injury. If a full rupture is discovered he will probably miss the season.
Please click for moreI’m in Sarasota, Florida for a few days, the first time I have been inside our house since Hurricane Ian. Happy to report it is still standing!
On Saturday, not long after the end of the Addicks’ FA Cup game, I fly to Las Vegas for what my daughter charmingly calls a ‘work vacation.’
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Siesta Key Beach, Florida
