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Jan 25

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Do the owners twist?

The owner group known as Global Football Partners (GFP) and made up of a handful of individual investors, mostly stateside, have been widely liked by the Addicks fan base since they collectively bought the club in July 2023.

I mean it is though a very low bar, even Thomas Sandgaard has been proven to be a complete wrong-un. I mean those sparkly white teeth, fake tan, guitar, and sparkly jackets were always going to hide a lot of sins. At least I sold my Zynex shares at break even.

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Jan 25

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My Top Five Favourite Restaurants

🔝5️⃣. Next and last up in my annual listing of Top Fives is Restaurants. I tell people that when I am travelling with work I’m either eating in Michelin starred restaurants, or sitting at an airport gate munching my way through a packet of crisps and overdosing on Haribo.

I did have some great meals last year, and occasionally I took the family! Here are my 2025 Top Five Favourite Restaurants 🍕

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Jan 24

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Millwall 4 Charlton Athletic 0

Humiliated. Again.

It doesn’t really matter who manages, who plays, the result is the same. There has been some tough watches against them in past years, but blimey that was an embarrassment.

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Jan 22

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A few notes from tonight’s fan meeting

I watched the ‘meet the director fan meeting tonight. Not sure how many of you did, certainly the viewer number count on You Tube never got above 500, and we found out tonight that we have 12,500 season ticket holders. It is here if you want to watch the recording.

Charlotte Richardson hosted Board Chair Gavin Carter, Managing Director Jim Rodwell until he had to go, and then CFO Ed Warwick for just over an hour in what has been described as part of the club’s fan engagement framework.

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Jan 21

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Left wing back signed

The Addicks have signed 21-year old Luke Chambers from Liverpool on loan until the end of the season.

This is Chambers fourth loan move from Liverpool, where he’s been since the age of 6.

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Jan 21

My Top Five Favourite Hotels

🔝5️⃣ I stayed in 62 hotels last year. 62. I haven’t worked out the number of nights because it might be debilitating. Many of these hotels represented just a bed and a shower on a work trip. Others however were calming sanctuaries of joy and family time.

I’ve rattled 62 down to 5 plus a couple of honourable mentions. Here are My Top Fives Favourite Hotels from 2025 🏩

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Jan 20

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Charlton Athletic 1 Derby County 2

Very disappointed about that. This should be a winnable home game, at least a game not to lose.

First league defeat of the year, but we have limped to this point, and too often tonight we were loose and ponderous in our play all over the pitch.

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Jan 20

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Edwards suffers injury setback

Word had got out this week that Josh Edwards had suffered a setback in his injury return, and that was confirmed by Nathan Jones tonight.

Edwards had been seen in training, and it was even thought he was within weeks of a return, but stories of him having a breakdown now appear true.

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Jan 20

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Mbick offers received

Brighton & Hove Albion’s algorithmic way of signing young players from across the globe has taken them to young Micah Mbick.

This month Charlton have turned down two bids from the Sussex club, the latest totalling ÂŁ3.5m, ÂŁ2.5million of that being up front.

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Jan 19

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Moving on

Talking Point 🗣️

Hopefully we have all moved on from Saturday. I’ve never been embarrassed to see a Charlton win, not going to start now.

Lucky, fortunate, skittish, fortuitous.. but never embarrassed.

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Jan 17

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Charlton Athletic 1 Sheffield United 0

Well, a few hours have passed allowing me to digest what happened this afternoon. Wine helps too.

We were extremely fortunate of course, but Sheffield United were their own worst enemies, which only they can control and 3 points is 3 points and we really needed them.

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Jan 16

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James Bree returning to Southampton

It sounds as if James Bree will return to Southampton after the weekend as Saints manager Tonda Eckert wants to utilize him in his first team plans.

Nathan Jones said this week that conversations are ongoing, but Bree frozen out by Will Still, is under contract and if Southampton want him back then that is probably the end of that.

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Jan 15

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Lyndon Dykes signs on permanent deal

Scottish international Lyndon Dykes has signed for the Addicks until the end of the season, where I am sure there is an agreement in place to extend that as his Birmingham contract ran until 2027.

Dykes said: “I’m super pleased and I can’t wait to get going. It’s going to be really exciting for myself and my family, and I think there’s going to be good times to come.”

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Jan 12

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Harry Clarke signs on loan

Ipswich Town’s Harry Clarke became Nathan Jones’ first January window signing today. The versatile 24-year-old defender has signed on loan until the end of the season.

Clarke can cover the range of roles at the right of the defence and hopefully signals the beginning of a busy week at Sparrows Lane.

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Jan 11

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Three lined up to join

I understand how difficult the January transfer window is, but we are now day 12 and we have the most important run of games coming up, so come on and hurry up!

The squad is decimated and is running on the fumes and the left side of defence has to be addressed this week.

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Jan 10

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Charlton Athletic 1 Chelsea 5

That was never a 5-1 game. I thought the boys did well tonight, showed good organization, discipline and courage. They even gave us a goal to cheer.

Yet, the second and third goals were poor to concede and the timing a killer.

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Jan 8

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Cup half full

The Charlton youth team beat Watford tonight to progress to the last 16 of this season’s FA Youth Cup.

If that doesn’t get us warmed up for Saturday’s FA Cup night then not much will. Our academy continues to be a source of pride.

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Jan 6

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My Top Five Favourite Sarasota Things

🔝5️⃣ I have said this before, but walking around Sarasota’s downtown you could be forgiven for forgetting that it is in Florida, other than the sandhill cranes flying over Sarasota Bay and the sun high in the sky.

We’ve lived here now for more than two years and there is still so much more to explore, but these were My Top Five Favourite Sarasota Things from last year.🦩

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Jan 4

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Blackburn Rovers 2 Charlton Athletic 2

Just a few lines on today’s game as I’m laid up trying to fight the flu, and losing badly.

Very disappointing to be 2-0 up, and not bring back the three points today. Their first goal was the killer I thought, and both goals conceded were really poor from our point of view.

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Jan 3

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Lyndon Dykes

A lot of fingers are pointing at Birmingham’s Lyndon Dykes as a possible early window signing for Charlton early next week.

The 30-year Scot has mostly been used from the bench by the Blues this season, and has been made available as Birmingham themselves look to spend in the January window.

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Jan 3

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My Top Five 2025 Favourite TV Shows

🔝5️⃣ A lot of planes meant a lot of TV Shows. Plenty of series watched, although many good, there wasn’t I felt a load that were distinguishable.

Five were still hard to pick, but I gave it a go. Below are My Five Favourite TV Shows from 2025 📺

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Jan 2

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Like a new signing

Talking Point 🗣️

Where have they been hiding Joe Rankin-Costello?

Nathan Jones’ 6th summer signing, he arrived from Blackburn just in time to join the summer tour to Slovenia, and was signed for a fee said to be £750,000.

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Jan 1

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Charlton Athletic 1 Coventry City 1

A performance full of character this afternoon as Nathan Jones’ team breathed new life into our hopes and dreams on the first day of a new year.

After Monday night, it was interesting to me at least, that Pompey went down 5-0, but we played like we did today against the runaway leaders with the best away record in the league.

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Dec 31

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Happy New Year

A little chilly here this New Year’s Eve morning in Sarasota. It might be a pyjama day, especially as our daughter has a touch of the flu so any plans, as minimal as they were, will have to be shelved.

I’ve never been a fan of ‘amateur night’ as I used to call it back in the day, so cooking and popping open a nice bottle of red later will be good enough for me.

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Dec 30

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Cody Drameh

Sky Sports have named the Addicks as one of four clubs trailing Hull City’s Cody Drameh.

The 23-year old is comfortable playing left or right wing back, and despite making 12 Championship appearances this season for the high-flying Tigers, he hasn’t played a first team minute since the end of November.

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Dec 30

36 Comments

No one ever said this would be easy

Talking Point 🗣️

I am sure I am not alone, but I feel low and worried about those Addicks this morning, but I am here to attempt to put a positive spin on proceedings.

The overblown foreboding and anti-Jones sentiments in some of my comments and many hundreds on Charlton Life possibly need to press the brake a little.

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Dec 29

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Portsmouth 2 Charlton Athletic 1

That is a dagger through the heart. 9 seconds after Pompey restarted the game they got their second goal. That is absolutely criminal from Charlton.

Probably like me and most of us I suspect the players expected the referee to blow his whistle as they kicked off, but that defending is inexcusable.

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Dec 27

My Top Five 2025 Favourite Places

🔝5️⃣ Another year, another list of my Top Fives. We will begin with Places. This year’s travels were almost entirely work related, and unfortunately a lot the places I visited were on repeat.

We did have one big family holiday, and that was to Qatar as we sought to open our daughter’s mind to another culture. The peninsula on the Arabian Gulf therefore took top spot, and here is a list of My Top Fives Favourite Places 🧳

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Dec 26

23 Comments

Norwich City 1 Charlton Athletic 0

It appears I was lucky to miss watching today’s game. That sounded turgid at best.

A worrying performance after a couple of positive ones. Losing is one thing, but losing in that manner will no doubt raise concerns once again.

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Dec 24

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Harry Gray

The transfer window opens in 8 days time, and typically Charlton rumours are thin on the ground.

Nathan Jones has talked openly about adding Championship quality to his squad. That could be a striker, midfielder and most definitely a left-sided wing back.

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Dec 23

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Flying home for Christmas

How sad it was to hear of Chris Rea’s untimely passing yesterday. His Driving Home For Christmas song is one of my all time favourite’s this time of year, and after years of living away from home it has long captured the Christmas spirit for me.

Rea was a huge Middlesbrough fan, and the Gone Fishing Christmas special with fellow Boro fan Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse has to be worth another watch over the next week.

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Dec 20

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Charlton Athletic 1 Oxford United 0

A huge win.

It was at times a draining game to watch, but there was also plenty to enjoy. Lot’s of positive performances and we showed all the aggression and defensive bravery that heralded our start to the season.

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Dec 14

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Cup games

A couple of bits of Addicks’ stuff that passed me by this weekend.

Firstly, what a tremendous win for our U18’s at Liverpool in the FA Youth Cup, secondly I’ve just seen that our Chelsea FA Cup game will be played at 8pm on a Saturday night.

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Dec 13

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Birmingham City 1 Charlton Athletic 1

A great point halting an awful run of results. We turned up today and navigated tough moments, defended like our lives depended on it, and got the goal when we were on top.

That was something to absolutely get behind from the reds today. More please.

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Dec 10

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Charlton Athletic 1 Middlesbrough 2

An emotional night ended with a fifth consecutive defeat.

The club and supporters as well as the referee, Boro’s team and fans beautifully remembered Headphones Norm, and there was a more spirited 2nd half to cling onto.

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Dec 8

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Chelsea at home

Wow, a proper draw. Chelsea at home in the 3rd Round of the FA Cup. I believe they also call themselves the best team in the World!

An exciting draw, the first for many years. The game will played over the weekend of January 10/11th, and I guess we could be a TV pick.

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Dec 7

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Charlton Athletic A Portsmouth A

This was a big game, with a big build up to a date so important to Addicks’ fans. It ended in tragic circumstances and our number is sadly one less today.

The outpouring of love and affection by those that knew Norman Barker or simply knew of him has been both heartwarming and sad. Yet we should all take solace, and I’m sure his family do, in that when your time is up, what better place to be than in a noisy Covered End surrounded by thousands of your best friends. Many of whom rushed to preserve Norm’s life of course.

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Dec 6

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Headphones Norm RIP

What absolutely devastating news. 💔

On a day which should have been about celebration and memories, we lost one of our own in such tragic circumstances.

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Dec 2

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Godden set back

People that appear to have knowledge of the situation are suggesting that Matt Godden has had another set back to his knee injury.

Remember, Godden had calcification form on tissue around his knee, this stemming from the original surgery in the summer and still gives him discomfort when he trains. His return has kept getting pushed back.

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Dec 1

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Season over

For those that have read these pages regularly they will know that my family and I have regularly been impacted by hurricanes, the last one was in October last year when Milton made landfall just up the street from us, and we had to evacuate.

We chose to live in Bermuda and we chose to live 400 metres from the water here on the gulf coast of Florida, so no pity required, but I also spend a lot of time studying their impacts for work.

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Nov 30

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Not season defining

I’m glad that you guys, at least the ones that commented, had similar feelings to me after yesterday’s game.

I went on Charlton Life post match and there appeared a lot more pessimism, maybe that stemmed from disappointment or a sudden realization that we are sliding down the table, but I try to look for indicators and study body language, and it was a different team to the one that subsided on Tuesday night.

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Nov 29

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Coventry City 3 Charlton Athletic 1

The Addicks went down to a fourth consecutive defeat today, and that’s 11 goals conceded in a week, just one less than in all the 15 games prior.

It was better though, I felt like the spirit was back, and the first half hour lifted hopes that those first 15 games were not an apparition.

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Nov 28

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Bonjour

The Black Friday sale is underway at The Valley.

32-year old left sided French defender JĂŠrĂ´me Roussillon has joined the Addicks on a short-term contract. This tells me that Josh Edwards is going to be missing for some time, but welcome Jerome.

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Nov 27

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Sweet potato mash and marshmallows

I’ve just about finished eating. Been a long day of turkey, mash potato, gravy and mimosa’s. This Thanksgiving thing has some legs. Same again tomorrow, with added online shopping for stuff I don’t need.

Today and tomorrow are a very welcoming break as work literally grinds to a halt as American’s eat, drink and watch (American) Football. I don’t know what American’s watched between 1621, when then the Pilgrims had their first harvest and 1920, when urban legend has it that the Chicago Tigers and Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) challenged each other to a Thanksgiving duel in the league’s inaugural season.

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Nov 25

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Stoke City 3 Charlton Athletic 0

What the hell has happened. That was brutal and the players truly let Nathan Jones down tonight.

After Saturday I was expecting an aggressive, in your face, defend at all costs start and there we were 2-0 down after five minutes, and even the most optimistic knew then that it was game over.

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Nov 24

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Tomorrow

I have just checked the weather. 0° at kick off tomorrow night. Can we do it on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke?

My brother and I once went to the Potteries leaving the warmth of London Euston in our t-shirts to be met with snow when we got off the train at Stoke-on-Trent.

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Nov 23

19 Comments

Yesterday

A few comments on yesterday before we consign it to room 101.

That wasn’t us yesterday, it hasn’t been us, and now we have to make sure it doesn’t become us.

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Nov 22

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Charlton Athletic 1 Southampton 5

I haven’t watched a first half performance that horrible for a long time. It was startling how easy they dismantled our defence and rolled us around all over the shop in midfield.

It was only thanks to Kaminski and luck that it took them 14 minutes to score their first, and by the time they scored the 5th half an hour later, it had become like a very bad dream.

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Nov 19

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Curaçao in, Jamaica into play-off’s

Unlike the Scots, wow that was an incredible match, the Jamaican’s failed to win last night and move into the Intercontinental World Cup play-off’s instead.

Jamaican drew 0-0 in Kingston with the 171 square-mile island of Curaçao and it will be them that go onto next year’s finals.

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Nov 17

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When the samba rhythm starts to play

I think I am ununusual in wanting the home nations to join England at major tournament finals, so I found myself drawn to them this weekend where I actually watched a fair few of the qualifiers, and I will be tuning in tomorrow night to watch the Scots take on the Danes to see if they can qualify for their first World Cup since the Krankies were on our screens.

The Irish had a tremenduous result, any football fan unless you were Hungarian had to have enjoyed that on Sunday. I loved seeing Conor Coventry leading the chase of Troy Parrott down the pitch.

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Nov 16

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50 years an Addick

50 years ago yesterday, half an actual century ago, my Dad did something unwittingly that would go onto change the course of my life and for that matter my family.

Saturday, 15th November, 1975 was a day I will never forget. It was my first ever Charlton Athletic game that I went to.

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Nov 15

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International break

Synesthesia. Today’s word.

Mixed senses of disappointment this weekend as we have no game, and not waking with that nervous excitement stomach churn of what lies ahead, but also quite thankful that the day will be more relaxing.

The sometimes-enigmatic-other-half will be happier that she won’t have to attempt to read my mood tonight before we go out for dinner!

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Nov 11

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Snowbirds

It’s that time of year in these parts that we we receive the mass migration of snowbirds.

The Oxford Dictionary definition of a snowbird is: “a person who spends the winter in a warmer climate, especially an old person from the north of the US, or from Canada, who spends the winter in the south.”

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Nov 9

14 Comments

Injuries mount

Nathan Jones does like to run with a smaller squad, a unified group where every player feels part of it, and believe they will have their chance. This season he’s running with 25 players.

As of today we have Godden, Burke, Bell and Edwards at various stages of recovery. Ramsey and Lloyd Jones have had an illness, likely the same and had to isolate before playing under the weather on Saturday.

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Nov 8

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Wrexham 1 Charlton Athletic 0

I am old enough to remember the 6-0 FA Cup shellacking at the Racecourse, and other than a league win at The Valley in the early 1980’s, Wrexham game’s have rarely provided us much if any good fortune.

Equally three of our four losses this season have come in the games coming before the international break, so the omens weren’t good especially with whispers of further injuries and illness to the squad.

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Nov 5

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Improvements in The Valley experience

The owners should take a lot of credit for supporting Nathan Jones during the summer and spent money on players like we hadn’t seen for a long time.

However, investment in players, if done right, is buying an asset, unlike investing in a piece of property you don’t actually own, which could be like throwing money down the drain.

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Nov 4

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Charlton Athletic 1 West Bromwich Albion 0

Who doesn’t love a last minute winner.

Euphoric scenes again at The Valley tonight as Sonny Carey scored the winning goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time to make it 23 points from 14 games. We sit 5th in the table as we go to bed tonight.

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Nov 2

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Energy levels

Talking Point 🗣️

Last week was the first for five weeks that Nathan Jones had his full squad available and on the training ground. We know that Jones and his team run an intensive regime, but I was a little bit taken back by how lethargic they were on Saturday.

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Nov 1

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Charlton Athletic 1 Swansea City 1

That was a point won today and not two lost. Despite taking the lead we were unable to take hold of the game and in the end were baying for the final whistle.

We weren’t ourselves today, definitely not the best version of ourselves, but we didn’t lose and move onto another busy week.

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Oct 31

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Addicks’ hurricane support

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.

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Oct 25

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Hull City 1 Charlton Athletic 1

7 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.

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Oct 24

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Massive woes

Sheffield 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.

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