For my 16-year old son, following Charlton recently has not become so joyous. His first Charlton memories were of Paulo DiCanio and Darren Bent. How things have changed, and although I am pretty sure we have gone through the stage where the Addicks might lose him to someone else, he has in the last season or so taken a little shine to his local team Maidstone United.
He has been to a number of matches with his mates, and their relatively new Gallagher Stadium is just around the corner from his school. I have encouraged him to go along and enjoy some grass roots local football as I did at the same age when me and my mates used to nip along to watch Bromley and Welling whenever Charlton were away.
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