Any Addicks floating about?
Probably going to be the only post here. To be honest I don't blame you for not standing up to be counted on this one. Not the worthiest of addicktions to be hooked on and the football's not been terribly inspiring...in fact it's been rather terrible.
You're better off siding with West Brom, or drop down a division or two and support the Vale...good honest clubs unencumbered by large wage drawing, benchwarmers, teapots and injured show ponies.
But if you do want to rant about life in the Valley here's the place to do it.
Thankfully, Portsmouth aren't like that........yet/
Thankfully, Portsmouth aren't like that........yet/
Thankfully, Portsmouth aren't like that........yet/
Thankfully, Portsmouth aren't like that........yet/
Thankfully there's no chance of any of that bandwagoning happening to my little club in South London!
Thankfully there's no chance of any of that bandwagoning happening to my little club in South London!
Thankfully there's no chance of any of that bandwagoning happening to my little club in South London!
Thankfully, Portsmouth aren't like that........yet/
Thankfully, Portsmouth aren't like that........yet/
Thankfully, Portsmouth aren't like that........yet/
as a pre-abramovich era chelsea supporter, i have to agree with you on that. well soon be as bad as man united in terms of glory hunting supporters, the ones who dont there peter osgoods from there gianfranco zolas.
as for pompey, i think them and everton are the teams with a great chance of breaking the top 4 affair,
An August 2008 post on this thread! Oh, dear....funny how history proves us rather wrong sometimes...."mighty Pompey".....
Now when Pompey fans talk about "breaking the top four affair" they mean Oxford, Chesterfield, Rochdale and Fleetwood...
and even that would seem an impossible dream for them stuck currently in 16th in League 2....
Been looking for an Addicks thread & just found this one after a long time searching on page 25 of the English football category.
Just not a popular club these days I guess. Still at least they're back in the Championship. Very average season so far though.
Was nice to see them on the tele here for the first time in years a month ago on Sommet Sports - and in that game were mediocre and lost AT HOME to Millwall of all people (blaaaarrrrrgh!!!)
Actually I have rellies from Charlton AND Millwall...
My mum's from Charlton SE7 (Elliscombe Road) and my grand dad was at both Charlton's post-war FA Cup Finals.
I'm still trying to get over the disappointment of relegation from the Premier League not long after Charlton's centennial year....anyway, I've got the Centennial DVD which is great....
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Some fascinating details on "great English football comebacks" in the Herald this week before the All Whites game:
I had never heard of this one involving Charlton but isn't it incredible? One player scored four times in the last 27 mins (& created two others):
2.Charlton Athletic 7 v Huddersfield Town 6, 1957:
With Huddersfield leading 5 to 1 with just 27 minutes remaining in their second division clash, Charlton fans on the terraces saw little reason to see the game out and left in droves. Cue Charlton left winger Johnny Summers, who pulls off an absolute blinder, adding four goals to the one he bagged in the first half. Summers also assists with two others to lead Charlton to victory.
(This match has its own fascinating detailed Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Athletic_F.C._7%E2%80%936_Huddersfield_Town_F.C.
Amazingly Charlton were down to ten men when they fought back too!
More interesting detail from Wiki: Huddersfield were managed by Bill Shankly pre- Liverpool glory days...
Magic boots were involved: At half-time "Summers also replaced his old boots, which were on the verge of falling apart, with some new ones."
Within three years, Charlton were involved in another match in which their opponents scored six goals at The Valley but failed to win. On 22 October 1960, they hosted Middlesbrough in a Second Division match that finished 6–6,[1] one of only two Football League matches in history to finish thus.
Summers also scored five goals in a Second Division game against Portsmouth in October 1960, but died of cancer in June 1962, aged just 34.
The match is remembered over 50 years later, and was chosen by The Observer in 2001 as the sole football representative in its list of the 10 greatest comebacks of all time in any sport, calling this match "the most remarkable comeback in football history".
I faintly remember this Tranmere comeback under John Aldridge:
3.Tranmere Rovers 4 v Southampton 3, FA Cup, 2001:
John Aldridge's first division team of journeymen and honest triers were 3-nil down at the break against favourites Southampton in the 2001 FA Cup showdown fifth round replay at Prenton Park. But after 83 minutes, the Rovers somehow take the lead, netting four goals, and then hold on to win. "I was there, it was emotional," said Herald chief reporter Stuart Dye.
Charlton's 20 greatest games (click on "more" for each game for details):
http://cafc.digital-ink.co.uk/GreatestGames.ink
As decided by the club and the Valley Review fanzine.
My folks are in London this weekend and my dear ol' mum has a bit of crush on old 'arry Redknapp, so I am taking them to see QPR vs Charlton.
In the past I have been to the Valley to see Di Canio smash in an equaliser for West Ham in a 1-1 draw, and to see Charlton play a play-off game. I think it was about the mid 80's, and Carl LeBurn (or something like that) came off the bench. He was like an 80's version of Peter Crouch (about 8 foot 6) and all limbs - the whole crowd laughed at him whenever he went near the ball.
That is all I have to say about Charlton.
My folks are in London this weekend and my dear ol' mum has a bit of crush on old 'arry Redknapp, so I am taking them to see QPR vs Charlton.
In the past I have been to the Valley to see Di Canio smash in an equaliser for West Ham in a 1-1 draw, and to see Charlton play a play-off game. I think it was about the mid 80's, and Carl LeBurn (or something like that) came off the bench. He was like an 80's version of Peter Crouch (about 8 foot 6) and all limbs - the whole crowd laughed at him whenever he went near the ball.
That is all I have to say about Charlton.
Bet you didn't see Carl Leaburn score though - few did !!!! One of the tallest strikers to grace English football -and one of the least prolific. More a target man. Charlton 1987-98 (344 apps, 53 goals) & then transferred to Wimbledon in the EPL where he scored an unexpected brace v Crystal Palace weeks after signing - but turned out to be half the four goals he scored for the Wombles in 58 apps !!!
Funny you're going to QPR v Charlton, as Leaburn finished his pro career at QPR in 2002.
And he is often seen at Hammers games these days as media liaison.
Still using his height to good effect as a security guard on Canary Wharf & in TV series cameos such as a bouncer in East Enders.
"A security guard? Not the best job considering the trouble he had controlling passes!"
Has been spotted at Upton Park recently too as he works mostly as a "fixer" for foreign TV wanting player interviews etc.:
"When I interviewed Carl for charltonlive before Crimbo he said he does extra work on East Enders quite a lot - has a mate who works there, has done a few films too. I think he does some security work but his main job now is as a 'fixer' for foreign TV, mainly at West Ham or other London clubs, when say one of the foreign channels wants to interview a player or a manager if the foreign host approached them 9 times out of 10 they would get ignored or bumped down the list, but Carl as an ex pro has some credability to approach the players and managers and arrange the interviews, you can often see him behind the dugout at Upton Park."
http://www.itsroundanditswhite.co.uk/2012/01/24/charlton-athletic-heroes-carl-leaburn/
by: Stuart Loversidge January 24, 2012
The cult hero. Every club has one. For Charlton Athletic during the early to mid nineties, it was a striker by the name of Carl Leaburn.
Your normal run of the mill cult hero tends to be a goal scorer, maybe an enigmatic winger or perhaps even a heart on the sleeve midfield man. ‘Big Carl’ was none of these things. His goalscoring record was poor at best, so poor that there were t-shirts available on match-day outside the ground reading ‘I SAW LEABURN SCORE!’ His record reads 344 games, 53 goals! But this doesn’t tell the whole story of his career.
Carl who? I hear the non-Charlton fans saying. Who is he? Well I’ll tell you, he’s only the player Peter Crouch wishes he was! He blazed a trail hand in hand with ‘bambi on ice’ Kevin Francis for the clumsy gangly target-man. Standing well over 6 feet tall and with as the commentators would say ‘a good touch for a big man’, Carl was the ultimate unselfish striker. ‘Super’ Clive Mendonca rated him as his favourite ever strike partner! Flick ons, lay-offs, you name it, he could do it (as long as it was one of these two things of course). When he was in front of goal with the ball at his feet, the outcome was often less successful. The ball could quite literally go anywhere, anywhere but in the net that is. Put the ball on his head however and it was a different story! The back post bullet header into the far corner was one of his trademarks. If only the ball was crossed to him at the back post more!
i have been a long term Chelsea fan, well before this era started, because i didn't want to support a big team like Liverpool, or Man Utd. i hate being called a bandwagoner. i know there are lots but don't brush all of us with the same brush.
my real love is Wrexham fc though.. we've had much better times....
Charlton have been taken over this week by a prominent Belgian businessman and politician Roland Duchâtelet - classiest name of any English club owner I reckon.
Sounds a bit like the Gareth Morgan of Belgium and has founded his own progressive liberla political party "Vivant" which advocates sustainable development. Writes books with titles like "Beter Alternatieven Nastreven Als Apathisch Nietsdoen" (Better seeking for alternatives than doing nothing in apathy") Not sure about his views on cats - but he's a little wealthier than Our Gareth:
"In 2011, he is the eighteenth richest man of Belgium with a fortune of 502 million euros. [829 million NZ dollars]
He's the chairman of five football clubs : K. Sint-Truidense V.V.(D2), Újpest Football Club(D1), Standard de Liège(D1) and FC Carl Zeiss Jena(D4) and Charlton Athletic F.C. (FLC)."
Certainly follows his passions...
The benefits have instantly been felt with Charlton taking on loan this week from Standard Liege, Swedish player Astrit Ajdarević who has links with clubs Kiwis have been playing for - was a youth player at Dan Keat's Falkenbergs in Sweden and played for Leicester City in the Championship a couple of years ago. He was also a youth team player at Liverpool.
Nice to see an Addicks thread in NZ - been here for 7 years, but 20 years supporting Charlton home and away.
Plumstead born - I have seen Leaburn score, and was at the Den when we beat Millwall in the snow
Blades in the quarter finals - bound to be on telly,
COYR
Nice to see an Addicks thread in NZ - been here for 7 years, but 20 years supporting Charlton home and away.
Plumstead born - I have seen Leaburn score, and was at the Den when we beat Millwall in the snow
Blades in the quarter finals - bound to be on telly,
COYR
Biggest Charlton game in years - FA Cup quarter-final Monday am:
Live on ESPN: MONDAY 12.55 am Sheffield United v Charlton
Must have a good chance of making the semis vs. Sheffield, tenth in League One behind MK Dons!!!!
(although Sheffield have knocked out Villa, Fulham and Forest)
Charlton last in the quarters in 2006 with manager Chris Powell playing (4-2 replay win to Boro after 0-0 at the Valley).
Arsenal v Charlton final with the Addicks winning!!!!
Last time Charlton played at Wembley in 1998 things went rather well!
Previews:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26404262
Diego Poyet keen to emulate his famous dad's Cup success:
"CHARLTON ATHLETIC TO BECOME THE AC MILAN OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL"
(Well, they do occupy a similar league position this season with AC Milan in the bottom half of Serie A)
But funnily enough the new Charlton manager Jose Riga is the ex-technical director of AC Milan's academy (and before that, Standard Liege's manager).
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26524831
"Charlton Athletic have sacked manager Chris Powell with the club bottom of the Championship and have replaced him with ex-Standard Liege boss Jose Riga.
Powell, 44, had been in talks with new owner Roland Duchatelet over a contract extension, but they have not agreed on a number of key issues in recent weeks.
Riga, 56, had been technical director of AC Milan's academy and is known to Duchatelet, who also owns Standard."
Riga took Liege to the last 16 of the Europa League in the 2011/12 season, winning their group before eventually being knocked out of the competition by Hannover 96 over two legs.
Earlier in this career, Riga won the Belgian second division with R.A.E.C. Mons for the first time in the club’s history in his first year in charge.
In the following season he led the side to a respectable ninth-place finish in the Jupiler Pro League before eventually parting company with the club in 2008.
In recent years Riga also spent time as technical director of Cercle Sportif Vise in Belgium and worked at the Aspire Academy in Qatar.
"NEW CHARLTON BOSS RIGA WAS INVITED TO TRAIN REAL MADRID BY MOURINHO, HAS SCOUTED FOR BELGIUM AND BEEN AT AC MILAN.... BUT IS HE QUALIFIED TO KEEP THE ADDICKS UP?"
Sounds like the kind of guy who knows a few magic tricks, a bit of sleight of hand, hypnotize the opposition, mesmerize them...
"He has a UEFA Pro Licence and teaches coaching courses for the Belgian FA...
Most recently Riga has been working with AC Milan’s youngsters, implementing the CogiTraining technique he helped develop. Here goes the spiel: ‘Modern football goes all about rhythm, timing, spacing and exceptional technical and mental skills. The CogiTraining Method allows initially “normal” players to internalise the essential ingredient of modern football, that is: speed of vision, speed of decision-making, speed of execution.’ To help you with this process expect to see Charlton’s players making use of the ‘Sense Ball’, which essentially looks like a football in a net bag.
Good luck in your fight with relegation. Barnsley are not giving up without a fight either.
The new Belgian owner's millions and contacts in his home country which lead to Reza Ghoochannejhad, Iran's star striker at the World Cup, being signed from Standard Liege at the tail-end of last season, has snared a former Belgian international as the new manger - Bob Peeters who has been managing top flight Belgian clubs in recent years such as Cercle Brugge.
High-profile signing announced this morning of Angola international striker Igor Venteke from FC Copenhagen. A former Belgian youth international and Cercle Brugge player.
Other signings include:
- French u-20 World Cup 2011 semi-finalist right-back Loic Nego ex-Roma and Nantes.
- Current Polish u-21 international striker Piotr Parzyszek from De Graafschap in the Netherlands (29 goals in 53 games)