Thierry Small worries unfounded

A little bit of pre-transfer window season angst amongst some Addicks surrounding Thierry Small.

Nathan Jones was 100% behind Small having his contract mutually cancelled by Southampton and being offered a short term deal at The Valley just as he was signing his own deal with the club.

TC’s 2 year contract

We have been told the length of Tyreece Campbell’s new contract.

“The 20-year-old winger, who joined the Addicks at U9 level, has signed a two-year deal, with a club option of an additional year.” (more)

The new Sky Sports+ deal

We are all creatures of habit, but about the only good thing about being stranded in the lower reaches of the league pyramid is that Charlton fans have mostly been able to hang onto the traditional Saturday at 3pm kick off.

3pm on Saturday is in every football fan’s DNA, especially if you are attending the game itself, but even if you aren’t.

20 years young

A month from today this Blog celebrates its 20th birthday, for which I have a binary sense of immense pride as well as complete amazement.

I was 30 something when I started penning these pages in June 2004, living on my own in an apartment in Chicago, and England were about to have another ignominious exit from a major championship on penalties.

Scraps of positivity in lost season

I’m not normally one to dwell on season’s past, especially crap ones, but I had ten minutes and was toying with some thoughts around if there was actually anything positive to say at all about the last nine months.

We began the season being fed the tag line of ‘new team, new era’ which coupled with Andy Scott pushing the mantra of ‘action not words’ told us in hindsight all we needed to know of what a cycle of incompetence we were to expect.

Bromley FC memories

The Glades would’ve been quiet today.

Congratulations to Bromley on their promotion to join the 92 football league clubs this afternoon after beating Solihull Moors on penalties.

Blues’ nose dive

I had no doubt that Birmingham would win today. I was at St. Andrew’s for the last game of the 1992/93 season when the Blues had to beat Charlton to stay up.

Saying the atmosphere was hostile does not do it justice and if Peter Garland’s shot had gone in instead of hitting the post I feared we would not got out alive.

Jones takes cleaver to squad

Charlton have issued the names of players that will leave and stay for next season.

The only player offered a new deal was Tyreece Campbell, who has signed a new unknown length contract.

Chris Solly

Only Chris himself and Lee Bowyer will know what happened during a conversation at the end of the COVID delayed 2019/20 season.

Lyle Taylor has since gone on to be loathed by Addicks for declaring that he would not play, instead waiting to run his contract down before he got his big money move to Nottingham Forest.

London Calling

For the second year in a row SE7’s Charlton Athletic was engraved on the London Senior Cup after beating Hendon 2-1 tonight at Champion Hill, home to Dulwich Hamlet.

Young hot prospect Patrick Casey scored both goals in the first half, his 37th and 38th goals of the season.

Alfie crowned POTY

With a record breaking 82% of the vote 27-goal Alfie May won Sunday’s POTY award voted for by supporter’s.

In 2nd place was George Dobson and 3rd was Terell Thomas, somewhat surprisingly but I bet that the top two made up about 98% of the vote and the rest was shared amongst a number of players.

Alfie May

Congratulations to Alfie May on his League One Golden Boot win. He truly is a very nice bloke. Lovely interview with him here.

May’s 23 goals are the most by an Addick in a league season since Andy Hunt who scored one more 24 season’s ago.

Only Bradley Wright-Phillips and Lyle Taylor have scored 20 or more goals for us in those intervening years.

Wycombe Wanderers 1 Charlton Athletic 0

And the season finally slams shut, and locked and thrown in the river tied to a concrete slab!

More defensive clumsiness followed by a gift of what was the decisive penalty was an apt way to finish the season ending a 14-game unbeaten run.

New Valley pitch investment

More evidence of investment by the club’s owners in that today they have announced the installation of a new Valley pitch this summer.

“Work begins on the pitch in May to ensure everything is in place for the men’s first-team’s final pre-season friendly on Saturday, August 3rd.” (more)

Sell out

Wycombe has all but sold out for Saturday’s early kick off – remember it’s a 12.30 start (7.30am here in Florida).

It’s another fantastic effort by Addicks for a dead rubber that closes down a season which will end with our worst league placing since 1926.