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Mar 27

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Doncaster Rovers 0 Charlton Athletic 1

We should have won the game by four or five after a dominant first half display but in the end we were clinging on and after recent criticism Craig MacGillivray made a terrific save at the death to secure the 3 points.

Doncaster were poor, but this was a much better and more confident performance from the Addicks led by a fantastic display from CBT who caused all manor of problems. Donny even changed their right wing back at the break to blunt his threat, but CBT roasted him too.

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Mar 19

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Charlton Athletic 2 Burton Albion 0

A poor game, but a pretty comfortable win which eases any worries. Takes us 13 points above the drop zone, although Crewe can still catch us 😀.

2-0 up at the break, but we were actually better in the 2nd half. We didn’t really look in any danger as Burton failed to muster a shot on target, although ex-Addick Oshilaja did hit the bar.

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Mar 16

Charlton Athletic 1 Gillingham 0

A deserved win and a vital one at that and in all honesty we couldn’t have asked for much more.

It feels a long time, that’s because it is, that Addicks had that winning feeling. Although there was more relief than anything else.

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Mar 13

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Accrington Stanley 2 Charlton Athletic 1

7 league games without a win and just one goal in five games, that a fortuitous penalty given for handball yesterday.

In full disclosure I gave yesterday a miss, deciding instead to do something more worthwhile than put myself through another hour and half of oppression.

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Mar 5

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Charlton Athletic 0 Sunderland 0

I’ll take that. A point and a clean sheet after 5 defeats and conceding 12. That was only our second clean sheet in 2022 and we needed it.

Today was a back to basics Curbs-like performance. Little inspiration but plenty of perspiration, the players put a shift in, we defended well, certainly rode our luck but stuck to the task and thanked MacGillivray for making good saves when called upon.

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Feb 26

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Sheffield Wednesday 2 Charlton Athletic 0

Another defeat, the 5th in row. We have never lost five games in a row outside of the top two divisions. The lows get lower.

Wednesday had us on the ropes from the kick-off, we could hardly get out of our penalty area as they forced three corners in three minutes and then scored from a free-kick in the 4th.

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Feb 22

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Charlton Athletic 0 MK Dons 2

Let’s start first of all with that MK Dons were pretty good. They have a clear style, they move the ball confidently and patiently and have built a close knit team that are well coached and drilled.

To beat them we had to be confident, brave, smart and decisive and we were none of those things.

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Feb 19

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Charlton Athletic 0 Oxford United 4

I decided to give yesterday’s game a miss and took the football-widowed-other-half out for lunch. First time I have forced myself away from a game all season, and I’m grateful I did as it sounded desperate.

Despite a bright start Karl Robinson’s Oxford rolled us over. Punishing us in key areas and apparently we got away with 4.

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Feb 12

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Wigan Athletic 2 Charlton Athletic 1

A much better performance than Tuesday but the same result at Wigan this afternoon.

With no Aneke, Washington, Stockley, or Scott Fraser we were always going top be up against it. The assumption was that Famewo missed out due to loan numbers. Jacko kept to his 3-5-2 but there were more centre-backs on the bench than in the team. I’m all for having a philosophy, but you also need the players.

We can question recruitment again on this front, or any sense of long-term planning which doesn’t seem to be Sandgaard’s forte
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Feb 8

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Bolton Wanderers 2 Charlton Athletic 1

Welcome to mid table of League One. This is where we are.

Dreadful game where Bolton exploited our defensive weaknesses and unenforced errors. I’ve said this for a while but Akin Famewo is one minute Franz Beckenbauer, one minute Frank Spencer.

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Feb 5

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Charlton Athletic 3 AFC Wimbledon 2

Would you rather with 3-2 or 1-0?

A rather rag tag display today by both defences, but we scored more goals so collected another win, which was vital after the excellent one on the road midweek.

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Jan 31

Portsmouth 1 Charlton Athletic 2

The transfer day weather was sunny periods with later dark clouds but as those lifted we had a football match and bloody good it was too.

Fratton Park has been a happy hunting ground and 1,230 Addicks were making all the noise again tonight in front of the Sky cameras.

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Jan 23

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Charlton Athletic 2 Fleetwood Town 0

Those beers after a Saturday home win always taste good. đŸș đŸ€•

It was much needed, and although the first half was largely forgettable and we were second-best for a big chunk of it, we did end it on the front foot and the 2nd half saw us deservedly take our first three points since December 11th.

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Jan 16

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Cheltenham Town 1 Charlton Athletic 1

When Addicks’ fans invaded the pitch at the Jonny Rocks Stadium after Chuks Aneke scrambled in an undeserved equalizer in the 94th minute it kind of summed up where we now stand as a football club.

Ex-Premier League staple, upper end Championship stadium and by most accord a club too big to be playing in the 3rd tier. Well, I think the more we accept where we are the more of a chance the club has to reset and start again.

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Jan 12

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Crewe Alexandra 2 Charlton Athletic 1

I hate this division. I hate the fact that my football team look quite at home in it.

Clutching at straws to bemoan a disallowed goal and an appalling refereeing display, although it did go all Hackney Marshes at the end when the bewildered ref spent five minutes talking to a fat linesman about what happened good three minutes after Lee’s shot deflected over the ‘keeper and in. VAR would have a field day in this division.

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Jan 1

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Charlton Athletic 0 Wycombe Wanderers 1

Disappointing result. I had a bad feeling about today, although the line-up had recovered from Covid better than I expected, with just Stockley missing, and that from a knock.

We started really sluggishly as if we hadn’t played for a while. I never get this ‘the players are too tired, they play too many games’ thing. They always play better when they are playing regularly.

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Dec 23

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Boxing Day game called off

The Addicks’ Boxing Day clash at Wimbledon, the nearest we get to a derby these days, has been postponed due to Covid.

Sparrows Lane was closed earlier in the week due to new cases, although even yesterday Charlton were selling additional tickets for Sunday’s game, and Jacko was hopeful that Akin Famewo, Conor Washington and Josh Davison could all return after 7 days of isolation and no symptoms.

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Dec 18

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Plymouth Argyle 1 Charlton Athletic 0

From after the first 30 minutes that was a very poor performance today in Jacko’s first game as permanent manager
. was always going to happen wasn’t it.

We weren’t great in that first half hour, but with the travelling Addicks in fine voice we were dominant and should have made our superiority count. Stockley had our best chance but headed unmarked straight at their keeper.

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Dec 11

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Charlton Athletic 2 Cambridge United 0

There’s a fair number of North American West Coast Addicks, and I got to feel their pain today when the alarm woke me early in San Francisco to sit down to watch the game. The other inconvenience is that after a very satisfactory win it’s possibly a little too early to crack the beers open!

Actually that win was more than satisfying, it was a big win against a side that made it very difficult for us, carved out chances and drew us into an ugly booking-fest match.

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Dec 8

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Charlton Athletic 2 Ipswich Town 0

What a fantastic win and display last night from Johnnie Jackson’s Addicks. It was a hair on the back of the neck moment when Gilbey ran half the length of the field to jump onto Jacko, Jason and the rest of the coaching staff when he scored the second goal to ease any doubts and lift the roof.

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Nov 27

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Shrewsbury Town 1 Charlton Athletic 0

The first defeat under Jacko to an injury time goal that should have never have stood.

It was one of those days. The weather sucked, it was a terrible game, and 1,000 Addicks had to cross hell and high water to get their due to train cancellations. We did not play well, but did not deserve to lose, but lose we did, and now we have to see how Jacko responds.

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Nov 23

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Morecambe 2 Charlton Athletic 2

Jacko has set such a high bar that I’m disappointed with that.

The performance was laboured and tired underscored by the possession stats – we had 68% – yet we never showed any real cutting edge especially in the second half, and thus had to make do with a point up on the Lancaster coast.

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Nov 21

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Charlton Athletic 2 Plymouth Argyle 0

Well that sent a shot across the bows for those in the table looking down on us.

What a performance. What an atmosphere. What a day. I have long since stopped pinning my hopes on a Charlton game headlining a trip home. I try to compartmentalize the 90 minutes as part of a whole day out with family and mates. Wake up on a Sunday morning a bit worse for wear, and consign the football to lower down the memories of a fine day out, but bloody hell yesterday’s ‘hour and half in the middle’ had bloody everything.

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Nov 13

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Burton Albion 0 Charlton Athletic 1

A crazy first half which saw both sides reduced to ten men, but we got our goal and clung onto it like a piece of treasure.

The first half resembled a bundle in the playground as old adversary Trevor Kettle sent off Jayden Stockley and ex-Addick Deji Oshilaja and handed out yellow cards like confetti, including one to Harry Arter who didn’t even get his tracksuit off.

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Nov 2

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Charlton Athletic 1 Rotherham United 1

The difference from just two weeks ago is astonishing.

Jacko has overseen three games, each very different, but the level of performance and commitment has been exceptional. There were so many points in tonight’s game where under Adkins we would have crumbled or given up the ghost, yet this team under the guidance of Jacko is doing exactly what it says on the Charlton tin.

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Oct 30

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Charlton Athletic 4 Doncaster Rovers 0

Couldn’t ask for much more than that.

Doncaster were poor, but Jacko’s team executed an astute game plan, pressed and harried, got forward in numbers creating loads of chances and ended with another important clean sheet.

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Oct 23

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Sunderland 0 Charlton Athletic 1

Unrecognizable that performance. Full of core traits we hold dear – passion, spirit, commitment. Since 1905 it is all you can demand as a Charlton fan.

Sunderland had won every league game at home this season, and then up on the LNER comes this rag tag of bunch Addicks led by a man dressed like the bloke from the Milk Tray advert. They must hate us.

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Oct 19

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Charlton Athletic 2 Accrington Stanley 3

There’s not much else to say is there?

My biggest concern as I get ready for bed, is that when I wake four hours after many of you is that Nigel Adkins will still be the Charlton Athletic manager. I feel sick at that thought.

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Oct 16

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Lincoln City 2 Charlton Athletic 1

Nigel Adkins future must now be untenable.

Enough of the excuses. Twelve games and still no clear system or pattern of play. No energy, horribly unorganized at the back, ponderous going forward and overrun in midfield. 14 days on the training ground and Adkins is patently unable to organize, present a vision or effect how we play. Similarly from the touchline during the games.

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Oct 2

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Fleetwood Town 1 Charlton Athletic 2

Much, much better. A plan, an identity, a hunger, a bit of luck.

I liked the midfield but it needed Harry Arter to be influential and he was. A fitter, calming overlord that Ben Watson never is.

Gilbey and Lee were busy and in sync supporting the mobile and threatening Leko, Kirk and Davison.

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Sep 28

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Charlton Athletic 1 Bolton Wanderers 4

No way back for Nigel Adkins now surely.

After Adkins made his 23rd team change in four games we started well. Davison finished clinically from a Leko cross and those two supported by Blackett-Taylor and Lee actually aroused the senses for 30 minutes, but we ran out of legs and ideas and Bolton equalized just before half-time with another long range pot shot with Matthews again culpable.

Half-time and all to play for, but for the love of god what does Adkins say to them during the break?

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Sep 25

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Charlton Athletic 2 Portsmouth 2

Not really sure how to react to that. The game showed us good, mediocre and bad. There was good character to come back twice from behind, but the 1st half was very poor and Pompey should have been home and hosed by the time we even got going. Yet, even then we had more chances than we’ve had in any home match this season.

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Sep 21

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Gillingham 1 Charlton Athletic 1

Seven more changes from Nigel Adkins tonight, include the dropping of skipper Jayden Stockley, and it really was sh1t or bust for the Addicks manager. By the end what we had was probably our best 45 minutes of the season followed by a reverting to type.

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Sep 18

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Wycombe Wanderers 2 Charlton Athletic 1

Another defeat, but it wasn’t just that, it was another game where we weren’t even in it. One shot on target and completely outplayed. Devoid of ideas, identity and confidence.

Don’t let the injury time goal from Lavelle turn your head or the couple of scrambles that followed. This was terrible, we deserved nothing.

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Sep 11

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Charlton Athletic 1 Cheltenham Town 2

Well that little boost of optimism lasted all of five minutes, in fact Watson couldn’t even get the opening second right when he kicked off when everyone else took the knee. Watson’s afternoon did not get any better.

Our worst start to a season for 15 years and just out of the League One relegation places on goal difference after Cheltenham Town, on their first ever visit to The Valley, gave us a footballing lesson.

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Aug 28

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Charlton Athletic 2 Crewe Alexandra 0

Much better from Charlton today. Great energy at the start, putting a lot of early pressure on them, got the opening goal, then scored a vital second just as Crewe started to have an influence.

2nd half we again started brightest, created chances but couldn’t get a third. Crewe did have their moments and it needed a couple of goal line clearances and MacGillivray saves to keep them at zip, but we should have added to our tally.

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Aug 21

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Charlton Athletic 0 Wigan Athletic 2

A toothless performance today. Was it terrible? No, but as night follows day we were there for the taking as the game moved into the last 20 minutes.

It was however, another display devoid of style, purpose, organization and hope.

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Aug 17

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MK Dons 2 Charlton Athletic 1

Other than the first 15 minutes when we took a deserved lead, that was another shocker. Three games in and one point, our worst start to a season for 8 years, and our worst third tier start since 1928, oh and out of the League Cup.

There has not been one endearing feature thus far with all of us just hoping that we click on the official website and we’ve signed six new players. This hope against a quickly changing tune from our rock n’ roll owner.

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Aug 14

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Oxford United 2 Charlton Athletic 1

I’m not one for looking at the league table or casting season-long aspersions after three games, but I would like to see a glimmer of possibility, a framework, a promising player, a style of play, but today was again poor.

After a pre-season of much hype of player acquisitions, a defined style of play and rock n’ roll what has been served up so far has been pretty uninspiring. We were a long way second-best today, overrun in midfield, error prone in front of our own goal and bereft of attacking ideas…. the long hoof in the general direction of Stockley’s head will become very tiresome, very soon.

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Aug 7

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Charlton Athletic 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0

That was a bit of a non event at least on the pitch.

It was however a marvellous sight to see fans in the seats, home and away ends. It was a decent attendance for an August what with ambition seemingly being watered down by the owner.

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Aug 7

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Back at The Valley

Good morning Addicks. How are we doing?

What a great feeling it is for Addicks’ fans to be back at The Valley, which other than for the odd Covid trial event, has sat ghost like for the past 17 months. It is been a weird time for everyone but routines will return this afternoon as friends and family gather to wake up this historic football stadium.

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Aug 6

League One 2021/22 Review – Part IV

And the final episode of my pre-season look at the league competition.

Using the bookies as my guide, Part I was the considered promotion favourites, Part II was play-off hopefuls, Part III those in mid-table with ambitions and this final Part V are the teams expected to have a relegation battle on their hands.

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Aug 5

League One 2021/22 Review – Part III

Part III then of my annual spot analysis of our competition.

We’ve done the bookies promotion favourites and play-off contenders now for the mid-tablers, where a surprise challenger might spring from, or alternatively one or more of them will have play-off dream’s crushed and instead get embroiled in a relegation battle.

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Aug 5

League One 2021/22 Review – Part II

Next up Part II of my look at our League One rivals and those sides that the bookies think will be challenging for a play-off spot.

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Aug 4

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League One 2021/22 Review – Part I

The first part of my League One rate the competition review guide
.guide is a massive overstatement by the way, but hopefully you will stick with it.

League One is wide open this coming season, possibly only a handful of teams will have their ambitions fixed solely on survival, everyone else will either have a longing for a play-off place, expect a concerted challenge towards it or will have a vision of top two.

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Aug 2

Toughest looking L1 for over a decade

This season’s L1 line up only underlines what a golden opportunity was missed last season. I thought last year’s league was weak, but that is not the case this time around with the additions of teams such as Rotherham, Sheffield Wednesday and Bolton plus the renewed ambition of Ipswich and Wigan added to sides like us, Sunderland and Portsmouth who each have their own reasons that they ‘should’ be playing at a higher level.

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Jun 24

Massive starter

Large prawns, cocktail sauce and all the trimmings as we were drawn together with our old friends from South Yorkshire for the opening game of the new L1 season to be held at The Valley.

Could be a lot worse. Sheffield Wednesday to kick off the season is a plum game, and hopefully in front of an unrestricted attendance plus some away fans does, for League One, get the juices flowing.

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Jun 3

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Call it a wash

A few words on the play-off’s and the make-up of L1 in 2021/22.

Congratulations to Blackpool, worthy winners and a club that has had more than their fair share of peril and strife in recent times. Many neutrals thought Lincoln’s season would extinguish, but the Imps made it all the way to the final but despite an early own goal (that brought back some memories) they couldn’t climb the final flight.

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May 17

Fans back for the Play-Off’s.

On the eve of the Play-Off’s I took a look back at the L1 season previews** that I wrote before a ball was kicked. Not easy as the transfer window was still in full swing and knowing that the marathon of the season ahead will bring about copious managerial changes – 16 this season, although Wigan, Swindon and Bristol Rovers both ended the campaign on their third manager.

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May 16

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A season high on bizarre, low on highlights

A week without a Charlton game, anyone missing it?

The 2020/21 season was for one way or another a tough season to follow the Addicks. Just three home games actually had fans inside the stadium, and in a nod to the overall season, we only played well for 45 minutes of them.

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May 9

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Charlton Athletic 1 Hull City 0

Happy to see us finish the season on a high. It may have been a sloppy own goal that gave us the win, but it was good to see us keep going at the end looking for another goal.

A very decent return this week, but as expected we just miss out on the Play-Off’s by goal difference with Oxford comfortably seeing off Burton 4-0 whilst down on the south coast Pompey choked at home to Accrington.

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May 8

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Massive

A big final day all around us in League One and in The Championship. Unsure to why we get Sunday all to ourselves.

Sheffield Wednesday were relegated a year after they really should have been as Wayne Rooney’s Derby County survived by the skin of their teeth thanks to a heartbreaking late goal for Cardiff that meant that Rotherham also dropped despite leading in Wales for so much of the game.

I had Soccer Saturday on and Paul Merson spent the whole of the first half complaining. I don’t know what sort of game he was expecting at Pride Park, but he was a little bit more present in the 2nd half, after a word from the director I guess.

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May 4

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Charlton Athletic 3 Lincoln City 1

So in this most forlorn of all season’s, when our home record resembles desperate relegation years, tonight the Addicks stretched out the fun and anticipation to the final game of the season by managing to beat 3rd placed Lincoln City 3-1.

Charlton Athletic, the grandmasters of kicking you in the teeth, now face champions Hull on Sunday when a win combined with not a win for both Portsmouth or Oxford will take us into the play-off’s.

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May 1

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Accrington Stanley 1 Charlton Athletic 1

Just the two games left before the curtains can close on this ghastly season. It was an ugly game, which suited the majority of all that had gone before it.

We were terrible, undeserving of a last kick equaliser. A fuddled game plan in which the only plan appeared to play like them and just hoof up into the air at every oppportunity. More upsetting was the lack of determination and mettle to try to win the game, which we had to.

There is abolutely nothing to cling onto with this team. They, all of them, truly give you nothing to believe in.

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Apr 27

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Charlton Athletic 2 Crewe Alexandra 2

That was terrible wasn’t it. Massive must-win game and we flunked it. I can’t help but thinking of the Birmingham game at the end of last season.

It was Crewe Alexandra we were playing wasn’t it? They were so much better than us – just like Doncaster, MK Dons, Accrington, Rochdale, Swindon etc. No need to go on.

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Apr 24

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Charlton Athletic 0 Peterborough United 1

Can we not play away every week? Another home defeat, six wins all season, and just two since before Christmas.

For all of our possession I thought it was clear where the two teams sit in the table. Hard to be too disappointed, we played alright just lacked that bit of quality and final ball in and around their box. They were happy to soak up the pressure, and our set-plays were not like they have been under Adkins. Perhaps we should have saved a goal from Tuesday!

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Apr 20

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Plymouth Argyle 0 Charlton Athletic 6

Well if there was ever a day to hide bad news, then today was it, but there was nothing bad about tonight’s result.

Laughably, we can now, we didn’t get out of our own half in the first ten minutes as Plymouth pressed from the off and forced corner after corner.

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Apr 17

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Charlton Athletic 0 Ipswich Town 0

That was pretty powderpuff wasn’t it.

The game had a bit of an ‘end of season nothing to play’ for feel to it. From us there was no acute cutting edge and we were unable to sustain any kind of passages of play involving more than three passes. Equally we weathered an unsure start where Ipswich fresh from a flea in the ear from Paul Cook started impressively.

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Apr 12

Ipswich game moved to 12.30

Saturday’s home game against Ipswich will be played at 12.30pm on the same day to avoid HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.

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Apr 10

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Sunderland 1 Charlton Athletic 2

A proper result that.

Huge defensive effort, lots of second ball wins, and we were quick to get forward to create chances. All without that sense of inevitability at the end, although that last ten plus six add-ons did seem like a lifetime.

We were slow out of the gate though and had to thank Amos for keeping us on level terms in the early exchanges. One save from Wyke in particular prevented a sure goal. Pratley at fault, but this was not a trademark error-prone display.

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Apr 2

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Doncaster Rovers 0 Charlton Athletic 1

This time of the season it is not about style and substance, it is about winning. The summer will be the time for Nigel Adkins to develop methods, systems and hopefully a missing identity, but for now it’s about keeping the season alive.

The performance was a little stodgy, and there was the occasional bit of routine sloppiness but overall we were more cohesive, tighter at the back and worthy winners.

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Mar 21

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AFC Wimbledon 2 Charlton Athletic 2

And repeat.

That was different wasn’t it? Let me just put this here —

“Plenty of huff and puff, the occasional bum off the seat moment, more hands over the eyes moments, saw plenty of the ball, but were sloppy and showed no real goal threat, and then there was another defensive lapse costing a goal.”

That’s what I wrote last Saturday.

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