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BACKGROUND
Last year Charlton supporters flooded the phone lines to help the Community Trust’s CHARLTON UPBEATS initiative win a national competition to receive funding.
CHARLTON UPBEATS is a weekly multi-activity programme organised by the Trust, which helps provide activities for local children with Down’s Syndrome. More than 100 youngsters have participated and benefited in the last year.
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Charlton v Oldham – Fan Interview
Ahead of our home game with Oldham a fortnight ago, Latics fan Dave Butterworth gave us the lowdown on the Latics.
Dave, two out of two and a top of the table clash. Has the strong start to the season come as a surprise to Oldham fans ?
Before the start of pre-season the answer would...
Exeter v Charlton – Preview and Poll
WSS looks ahead to Saturday’s trip to Devon
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Although my predictions of new signings before the Huddersfield game proved incorrect, we are likely to see at least one of Parky’s hat-trick of signings in some capacity when we venture down to Oggy Land.
Exeter are yet to win this season in the league although they are still...
Home and Away……you still got to pay
RodneyCharltonTrotta looks in greater detail at why its more difficult nowadays following your club away from home.
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“Your support is f****** s**t”, “Your ground’s too big for you” and even the introspective “Where were you when we were s**t?” are some of the familiar songs belted out at grounds up and down the country every weekend...
Charlton v Bournemouth – Interview with Bournemouth fan
New regular feature for 10/11, every week we’ll be chatting with an opposing fan to try and get a greater insight into their club. Starting the season is Cherries fan Mark Shergold. Our thanks to Mark for his time…
Q. Mark, its been an amazing rollercoaster for AFCB since going into administration in Feb 2008. Could...
The Curious Case of Jonjo Shelvey
The soap opera that is Charlton Athletic threw up another episode this week to rival all the joy of an Eastenders’ Christmas Special, with the decision taken to cut short the season of our most talented youngster, Jonjo Shelvey, in favour of an immediate cash injection.
Not for the first time in recent years, the decision...
Charlton Life Competition: Win a signed copy of Lennie Lawrence’s autobiography
Lennie Lawrence has been working in football for over 30 years, but it was his nine turbulent years in charge of Charlton, whilst dealing with the fall-out of the move from The Valley amid limited resources that ‘Houdini’ will ultimately be remembered.
Lennie has now penned the story of his rise from school teacher to football...
Lennie Lawrence – Book Review
With a plethora of football books about to hit the shops ahead of the Christmas season, Scotty Kingsley reviews the offerings of the man they called ‘Houdini’.
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Many years ago Lennie Lawrence threatened to write a book about his time a Charlton. There was certainly enough packed into his nine year spell at the club, including...
Solid start, but squad frailties highlighted
There are some things in life that are nigh on guaranteed, and Charlton limping out of the League Cup to a Division Four team is certainly one of them. The defeat sadly came as no surprise to seasoned Addicks, particularly given the weakened nature of our starting eleven.
However, unless you were one of the 323...
