Oct 31
Nice to see Charlton’s Jamaican Addicks plus others with Jamaican roots donate to relief funds and raise awareness to the devastating impacts of Hurricane Melissa that ran over the island with sustained winds of 185 mph winds in the early part of this week.
That is a huge storm, stronger winds than Hurricane Katrina for example, which devastated New Orleans in 2005 and killed 1,392 people.
Please click for more7 points in a week that ended with a long schlep up the east coast is a terrific return and today once again the Addicks did just not know when to give it up.
A late Luke Berry goal from a copybook James Bree corner gave us a deserved point.
Read moreSheffield Wednesday have been placed in administration after it was revealed His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs plan to issue a winding-up petition against The Owls.
Wednesday have been hit with an imemdiate 12-point deduction.
Please click for moreA few words on last night.
I was buzzing today. Absolutely wallowing in it. This Blog has always promoted enjoying the moment and that moment is now.
Please click for moreThat is the most remarkable of results.
And I didn’t see any of it. In a meeting for the beginning and then in a bar with others for the bulk of the game, which at least allowed me to celebrate every goal.
Please click for moreNathan Jones is a man rarely known to tinker, whether that has been to the detriment or not, but I will stand next to him by his record.
We have another two tough away journey’s this week making it four away games in five. Trips to Suffolk and Humberside await making it hard to spend too much time on the training pitch.
Please click for moreThat became very uncomfortable but it was another 3 points as we reach the first season marker sitting nicely in 9th place.
Another big crowd watched a very good first half, and then got the Addicks across the finish line to bounce back from the defeat at Preston last time out.
Please click for moreBillie Eilish did 3 cities this week. Pah, I put two fingers up at that kind of sluggish convention. Me, mind you will have a week of a true rock ‘n roll tour.
Miami, Sarasota, Las Vegas, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Napa Valley. 7 cities, 7 days. The life of a rock star travelling salesman.
A little bit out of the blue this today.
The club announced the extension of the club’s lease of The Valley and Sparrows Lane through to June 2040.
Please click for moreDefeat today in heavy winds but we can’t be too downhearted. These days were always going to come, but we sit top half as we go into the second international break.
It’s been a long week especially for those travelling fans who today had to beat difficult train and weather conditions, but their backing was magnificent again.
Please click for moreWhen Steve Avory stepped down from his long time job as Charlton’s Academy Manager just over a year ago, the club’s diamond mine was entrusted to Tom Pell, who had been hired by Avory from Cambridge United a couple of years previous.
Yesterday it was announced that Tom Pell is set to leave the club to join an unnamed Premier League side. He will serve his notice and leave in December.
Please click for moreRarely a game goes by when Josh Edwards is not in the wars. The likable Scottish ball of energy doesn’t have the word shirk in his dictionary.
Today Nathan Jones said that Edwards’ ankle damage is going to mean he “will probably be out a little bit longer than a few weeks.”
Please click for moreI think we have to be pleased with a point tonight and it was a fair result.
Derby have had an underwhelming start to the season and were under a lot of pressure to win. The only shame is that after quelling early 2nd half pressure we couldn’t build enough possession to bring back the 1st half home boos.
Please click for moreThe summer transfer window is still breathing apparently.
Charlton Athletic are delighted to announce the signing of Cuban international Onel Hernández (more).
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A bit more on yesterday’s game. I know all too well that when you are an infrequent visitor like I am to live games then you have to lower your expectation level, but yesterday was something else.
Please click for moreI was at The Valley today, and I was moved by that performance and how it was saluted by a pulsating stadium.
We were irresistible in that 2nd half and thoroughly deserved the win in what was possibly the best pressing display I’ve seen from us under Nathan Jones.
Please click for moreWe all would’ve taken a point beforehand, but that is a fantastic win.
It was important that we started solidly and we did, but in trademark Nathan Jones style we finished really strong and Tanto Olaofe got the winner with 89 minutes on the clock.
Please click for moreIt’s been a quiet week in our corner of South London, less so in the south of Sheffield where Chris Wilder’s return is getting all of the media attention.
We can, as Nathan Jones would say, only affect things that we can control, and after their stuffing at Ipswich a reaction was probably going to come anyway.
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The fog is taking a time to clear, but mostly because I had to endure a long journey back from Bermuda last night and I have to prepare for another early flight in the morning.
Please click for moreHistory always repeats itself, something always happens and it is a given in this game that Millwall will score late, and late they did.
The hurt continues and it will take a couple of days for the fog to clear and when it does it will show that we played very well and were the better team.
Please click for moreChuks Aneke signed for Shrewsbury Town today, making him the last of the players released by the Addicks in the summer to get themselves sorted.
There’s a really good interview, if you ignore the comments about Michael Appleton, with Chuks on the Shrewsbury website if you have five minutes.
Please click for moreIt was quite nice watching last Monday’s transfer deadline pass without having expectations of loads of last minute signings, although whatever happened to David Datro Fofana was a slight dissapointment, if it ever was a thing. We’ll probably never know.
We’ve had so many last minute signings that have turned out to be crap at best, that it’s so much more comforting having new players in the building early in the window. Jones’ stance on loans also means we are not scrapping around in the Premier League academy barrel hoping that the next young hopeful turns out to be Conor Gallagher.
Please click for moreIt’s been a long weekend without football hasn’t it.
I found myself refreshing over and over the Charlton Women’s score earlier, and thrashed the air with delight after they hung on with 10 women, to beat Crystal Palace 1-0 in the WSL2 season opener at The Valley.
Please click for moreIt appears this deal was in the hands of FIFA to get approval.
Today 20-year old Zach Mitchell made the loan move back north of the border to Edinburgh and will play the season with Hibernian on loan.
Please click for moreA big night in Bermuda tomorrow as Charlton might have chartered their own airplane to bring Karoy Anderson, Tyreece Campbell, Kaheim Dixon and Amari Bell to the Atlantic outpost.
Bermuda host Jamaica at the Dame Flora Duffy National Sports Centre (photo) tomorrow evening in Group B of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifier.
Please click for moreLots of confusion tonight surrounding Chelsea striker David Datro Fofana, but it does look as if the loan move to Charlton has fallen through as the EFL never received the transfer ‘deal sheet’ in time.
This move really fell under the radar, and Charlton nor the club’s most-in-the-know journo, Rich Cawley have even commented on the 22-year old’s potential late move.
Please click for moreSouthampton’s James Bree has joined on loan until January.
The 27-year old Bree’s versatility will appeal to Nathan Jones. He will solve, temporarily at least, the need for more depth at right (wing) back, and can also play at centre-half.
Please click for moreThis window closing at 7pm is a bit of a joke really as Sky Sports despite saying this is the biggest transfer window since the partition of India, still has about 30 deals listed to be completed. Apparently 9pm is the ‘real’ deadline.
They of course don’t even include clubs like Charlton and others in their bed wetting.
Please click for moreI think that was a warning call today. We didn’t deserve to lose that match, from 60 mins on we looked the most likely to win, but we left Loftus Road with our tail between our legs.
I think us fans need to remember the ultimate goal here. Possibly our surprise element has been exhausted, we have to be better, and we have to learn quicker but for long periods as the away side we still had the upper hand.
Please click for moreThis is really sad news to wake up to today.
Steve Thompson, or Rambo as he was affectionately known, has lost his long battle with cancer aged 70. Steve was part of Lennie Lawrence’s brilliant promotion side when we were in exile at Selhurst Park.
Please click for moreI am about as least worried by exiting the League Cup than I have been for many seasons. The phrase we need to concentrate on the league is just.
I didn’t listen or pay any real attention but it did not sound good.
Please click for moreWell, it is the last week of the transfer window and if it’s silly season in Wrexham, then why not in Charlton Village.
Some Addicks have suggested that JRS is a remote possibility of a last minute loan signing and he would meet Nathan Jones’ criteria of someone than can considerably improve or add real competition to the squad.
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The problem with these early kick off’s is that it leaves a long time for reflection. 12.30 is 7.30am here, and that’s a lot of day to wallow, sulk, or be grumpy. Just ask the missus.
Please click for moreWe were going to lose at some point, and if you’re going to lose, then lose like that.
It was another excellent display of sheer determination, aggressive pressing and quality not only matching but eclipsing our exalted opponents, but the winning goal was straight out of the Premier League and separated the two teams.
Please click for more20-year old striker Daniel Kanu has joined Walsall on a season-long loan. I peg this as a really important move for Dan. Hopefully he gets plenty of game time leading to him being a real threat in League Two for The Saddlers.
Nathan Asiimwe clearly benefited from his time under Mat Sadler and Nathan Jones and his coaching team must trust their peers at Walsall.
Please click for moreBack at The Valley on Saturday with another big crowd expected. Leicester have sold out their allocation. The attendance will certainly be bigger than the last time we hosted the Foxes almost exactly 12 years ago, when Yann scored against his old club.
Crazy to think that just two season’s after that Leicester won the Premier League title.
Please click for more“What we probably want to do is add, at least one body. We know the position we need it. Maybe to do that, we want to make sure our numbers are good.” – Nathan Jones today.
A right wing back I reckon, possibly waiting to pounce with a low-ball offer for Japanese player Shinnosuke Fukuda, who halfway through their season his club Kyoto are demanding a large fee even though his contract expires in January.
Please click for moreAlex Mitchell has moved to Plymouth Argyle on loan for the season.
A very likable and a solid, non-compromising centre half, still only 23 Alex will do a good job for Argyle and I hope he gets plenty of game time.
Please click for moreI really enjoyed that. Throughly deserving of a point, and perhaps could even have snatched all three as we again finished the stronger of the two sides.
Some superb individual performances all across the pitch, but it was a stoic team showing that gave the noisy travelling Addicks something to be really proud off.
Please click for moreThis looks a good move for Kaheim Dixon. The youngster will move to Crawley Town for the season to play under Scot Lindsay in L2.
That’s four players now out on season-long loans – Nathan Asiimwe (AFC Wimbledon), Terry Taylor (Northampton), Gassan Ahadme (Stevenage) and Dixon.
Please click for moreIt was this week’s Carabao Cup opposition Stevenage that have taken Gassan Ahadme on loan, with negotiations concluded on Tuesday after the striker was left out of the Addicks’ squad.
Ahadme ends a tough first year at The Valley by moving on a season loan to Stevenage.
Please click for moreCambridge United will be our opposition in the Carabao Cup 2nd Round, drawn tonight.
We faced the U’s in pre-season and in each of the last four L1 seasons.
Please click for moreInto the hat, mission accomplished and it was a pretty decent display.
Nathan Jones made eleven whole changes but players got minutes, and youngsters got exposure, no more so than Ibrahim Fullah, who was excellent.
Please click for moreCharlton’s set piece and first team coach James Brayne is leaving the club to take up a role with Sunderland.
James joins Régis Le Bris’ backroom staff ahead of the 2025-26 Premier League season to lead their first-team’s set-piece coaching.
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We all know it was only the first game, and there are 45 to play, but I’m still wallowing a little bit from Saturday’s win over Watford. Back to earth tomorrow though when we host Stevenage in the Carabao Cup, and whilst we hadn’t played Watford since 2015, this is our 7th meeting with Stevenage in less than three years.
Please click for moreA little plug for Heather Thomson, daughter of Dave/ Drinking During the Game/ Cardinal Sin.
This September Heather is walking the 30 miles of London’s Green Link route from Epping Forest to Peckham and back again with her friend Tom in support of Cancer Research UK.
Please click for moreTerry Taylor has gone back to Northampton Town, where he had a very successful loan in the second part of last season.
Terry will spend the season at Sixfields. This is the final year of his Addicks’ contract.
Please click for moreWhat a way to win a season opener. So many trademarks from last season in that performance and it was great to see Nathan Jones push for the win in the last part of the game and not be content with a point
I was grateful that my Qatar Airways WiFi held out and the game was a joy to watch and a very noticeable step up in quality.
Please click for moreRich Cawley has found out a little more on the summer absence of Matt Godden in an interview with Nathan Jones.
“It was a minor procedure on the knee, just a clean-up type of thing” that has kept last season’s top scorer out of pre-season. (more)
Please click for moreTwo more sleeps, and how are you feeling? Optimistic? Nervous? Restless?
We have to be excited don’t we. After some desperate years we all deserve that feeling. The club has laid a terrific foundation for all Addicks to have something to believe in, and that for me has always been the core principle of being a Charlton fan, and that hasn’t always been easy.
Please click for moreI am a self confessed ‘watch guy’ but haven’t yet been convinced to splash out on a Christopher Ward model.
However, now the Anglo-Swiss watchmaker have signed a six-figure, multi-year partnership with the club, I might be tempted.
Please click for moreThis week was always going to be quiet on the transfer front. Jim Rodwell needs to refill his biro and give his phone a rest and Nathan Jones will be hard at it on the training field.
9 signings by the start of August has been phenomenal work, and whilst it is right to reason that not all 9 will be terrific, the ideology of strengthening key positions with a cross of experience and potential is to be applauded.
Please click for moreWhat absolutely terrible news breaking today from Portugal. Jorge Costa reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest at the Porto’s training ground in Portugal and died later in hospital.
Jorge was only 53 and a legend at Porto. He was their director of football.
Please click for moreThird kit drop today and as anticipated it has a Jamaican feel to it, although the club don’t actually tie the two together in the promo stuff.
The 3rd change kit features “a striking charcoal base, complemented by a yellow, green and black trim on the cuffs and the collar. Yellow and green strips alternate down each side of the shirt, continuing through the shorts.”
Please click for moreGassan Ahadme scored twice and could’ve had a third in the final run out of the season today, but he did do it against his favourite opposition.
Still it was a nice surprise and will do him no harm. Sonny Carey was the other scorer in the 3-0 win at Southend.
Please click for moreNever in any doubt 😉.
Not sure what that was all about but welcome to The Valley Harvey Knibbs signed for an undisclosed fee tonight on a 4-year deal.
Please click for moreAccording to reports from Reading, Charlton have pulled out of a deal to sign Harvey Knibbs.
A fee of £1.8m was agreed and Knibbs was apparently at the training ground this week, so a little mysterious and a lot disappointing.
Please click for moreAfter a few weeks of speculation Gavin Carter today put on record that the club and Dane Murphy have mutually agreed that he will not be taking up the role of Chief Executive Officer, as previously announced.
Murphy may or may not have been the right person to lead the club forward, but it is best that everyone moves on.
Please click for moreThat’s a good move for Nathan, playing a level higher up than he was at Walsall the second half of last season.
Asiimwe has joined Jacko’s League One side AFC Wimbledon on a season-long loan.
Please click for moreWhat do you say. Give Thomas Tuchal a few more games and then hand the job to Sarina?
Whatever you say about her tactics, decision making and subs that is an unbelievable record. Congratulations to her, an honorary English woman as there’s ever been and well done the players, the first ever English football team to win a major final overseas.
Please click for moreA Sunday signing.
Charlie Kelman has signed from Queens Park Rangers on a 4-year deal for an undisclosed fee, which apparently was in excess of £3m, rising to £5m with a ton of add-ons.
Please click for moreK&K. Well, at least it seems one K.
QPR and Charlton today reached an agreement for the transfer of Charlie Kelman according to top level transfer guru Fabrizio Romano. Of course the much more reliable and down to earth source Rich Cawley is now carrying this story as well.
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