Charlton Athletic Online (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Charlton will be hoping to maintain the recent positive momentum in tonight’s fixture versus Bristol Rovers at The Valley; a thumping of MK Dons in the last home match was replicated in effort if not the result on Saturday in Somerset, where, but for Sam Sodje’s sending off, three points would surely have been won. Phil Parkinson will need to make at least one change to his side, due to...
Charlton Athletic Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
After such a resounding win last weekend in the first ever game against MK Dons, Charlton hope to keep on winning with a visit to Yeovil for the first time in their league history. The Glovers are a nice team, and one that many look out for results due to their famous FA Cup exploits in years gone by. Now they are a league team, and have done very well since joining the league a few years back. Yeovil...
What was the score by Chicago Addic (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Charlton Athletic 5 Franchise FC 1 Wow. What a way to answer the critics. What was becoming a nasty trend can now hopefully be consigned to the blip category after yesterday's terrific performance at home to Milton Keynes' imported football team. I was lucky to be able to watch most of the game on a very good internet feed, which wiped away the memory of last week's fuzzy one, representional of both...
Drinking During the Game (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
After three successive defeats away from the Valley, including the humiliating loss to Northwich Victoria, Phil Parkinson's men had to face the music today. It couldn't really have gone any better as the Addicks hammered out a five goal warning to the challengers. The news that we had signed Akpo Sodje on loan from Sheffield Wednesday set the tone for the day as we attacked the Dons. Fraser Richardson...
Charlton Athletic Online (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Four away games, only a draw to show, and a lucky one at that – not the best form from the Addicks recently then…but now we are back at The Valley, and hopefully, hopefully, things will change. Charlton will play their first ever game against MK Dons on Saturday, and if things had turned out differently, it could have been an MK Athletic team playing Wimbledon: Way back in the early seventies,...
Drinking During the Game (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
We're back at the Valley tomorrow folks where we are unbeaten. We are facing a red hot MK Dons side but they will be without three key players which might even things out a bit in terms of our poor recent form. As long as the boo-boys stay silent and our players realise that all they have left now is the grind of league action, I believe we can get a result here to steady the ship. Our players are...
Charlton Athletic Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Southampton 2 Charlton Athletic 1 Well, that’s any dreams fans may have had of a trip to Wembley over for another season. A 2-1 score-line that may paper over some cracks, but for an hour, Charlton were abysmal yet again. Phil Parkinson made plenty of changes, recalling on-loan Carl Ikeme in favour of Darren Randolph, switching Kelly Youga to right back to accommodate Grant Basey, resting Sam...
Charlton Athletic Online (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The FA Cup loss to Northwich Victoria has left a bad taste in many Charlton fans mouths and, hopefully, that foulness can be taken away with a bounce back win tonight in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. Charlton visit Southampton with it all to prove. It is highly unlikely that the same eleven players who performed so poorly on Sunday will start the game, but many will, due to the rules of this...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It is 29 years since Charlton were last forced to play at this stage of the FA Cup. They will be grateful if they never have to see it again. Wayne Riley, a 20-year-old part-timer freshly sprung from the bench, struck nine minutes from time to give Northwich Victoria, 76 league places below the Addicks, a victory they thoroughly deserved. Riley's ambitions already stretch beyond the second-round tie...
Charlton Athletic Online (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Northwich Victoria 1 Charlton Athletic 0 I doubt this will be a long blog, as I’m sure that I am as upset and angry as many other Charlton fans must be feeling after the Addicks first ever defeat to a non-league club in the FA Cup. Suffice to say that the Addicks simply failed to come to terms with the match against very limited opposition who relied ever so heavily on set-plays to create chances....
Drinking During the Game (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Red faces all around this afternoon as Charlton were outplayed by non-league opposition and dumped out of the F A Cup. The red faces of the manager and players will be down to embarrassment and those of fans to anger. As I said the other day, we needed a performance showing determination and ambition if we were to avoid a humiliating defeat. We saw some determination from the goalkeeper and the centre-halves...
Charlton Athletic Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It’s been one of those weeks; Charlton lose a game and the World is coming to an end! Sure, the result at Carlisle was poor, and the Addicks do currently sit in 18th place in the League One form table, but we aren’t going to get relegated (famous last words!) and we will finish near the top of the table. The defeat at Brunton Park was just the second Charlton have had all season in the...
What was the score by Chicago Addic (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I close my eyes for a minute and a mini injury crisis takes hold. The size of our squad means a mini crisis can easily be a maxi one and I nearly dropped a nappy at Parky's "we might get a loan in before Carlisle" comment today. Do we really need to do that? I can't remember the terms of Moot2kil's loan deal but with him up there and Fleetwood and Dickson out west, the 'emergency' loan of...
Croydon Addick (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The Addicks face another team they should beat quite comfortably this weekend in the form of Carlisle United. Greg Abbott's men won for the first time in eight games last weekend with victory over Southend, a result that elevated them out of the bottom three and eased the pressure on their under-fire boss. I dismissed the Cumbrians in my intro because if Parky's boys get their heads in gear their class...
Drinking During the Game (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
It wasn't so long ago that the Charlton support was split over whether Rob Elliot or Darren Randolph should be the next first choice keeper. It really is something that Elliot's torn abductor muscle injury and six or seven week lay-off should be greeted with doom and gloom from the Addick faithful. I have always been in the pro-Elliot camp and was alarmed by Randolph the first time he got the nod over...
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