This season, I gave up supporting Charlton Athletic 8 (EIGHT) times. How about you - can you beat that? If you can't, maybe you haven't been visiting this site as often as you should have been...
Steve Allen, that's who. A story that has gone largely unnoticed is the hip operation that Darren Ambrose underwent a couple of weeks back. The club's website elaborated on the details yesterday.
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I've finally managed to wade through our leader's programme notes from last Sunday. A little bit of introspection, a little bit of tub-thumping and plenty of straight talking - but has he got things right?
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Hands-up time. Who thought we'd be back in the Premiership by now? Ketts is brave enough to admit that he did.
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Our Man In The Know has been ruminating, pontificating, and masticating over who's going where in the summer. This is what he reckons...
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Its official. Charlton Athletic's reign as the most politically correct, right-on football club in christendom has come to an end.
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We felt the pain of relegation a year ago so know what the fans of Derby and the other clubs at the bottom of the table are going through. But it's not really the end of the world...
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No - not Charlton. Not just yet anyway. My 'other' team got promoted on Saturday - and in doing so, they demonstrated that maybe Charlton too can one day make a return to better times. We just need to be realistic, and patient.
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Did you see that? Running on the pitch they were - 'ooligans! Not fit for the Prem. Bloody disgrace, I call it....
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An open message from Our Man In The Know, to CAFC's new CEO and Transfer Czar.
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Or is it? Would the big bald battering ram who plays in shirt number 16 be better employed elsewhere than up front?
Well the big bald battering ram who sits in seat number P150 thinks so....
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Our leader's first pronouncement after the final blowing of the whistle yesterday: "I think we need three or four more players."
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Our South East Asian correspondent has gone all soppy over someone who only managed 3 goals in 270 games, two of which were bloody shinners!!
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Charlton Athletic 4 - 1 Coventry City
So Charlton end the season on a high. Proved what we all knew really; if sides gives us time and space, don't try to close us down, we look a half decent side.
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Our board has pulled a fast one on us. They've made a subtle change to that "free season ticket if we go up" offer, the cheeky blighters. And once the Stalwarts spot the change, they are not going to be happy. In fact they're going to be LIVID.
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So here we are at last, the final match of the season. The fireworks, the medals and some posh official handing over the League trophy. Well, that was what was supposed to happen....
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....but a highly valued member of the CAFC support team, that's me!
And these aren't my words. Its not me that's saying that. Mister Pards thinks so too.
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There was I, thinking nobody would turn up on Sunday and feeling slightly guilty about my own non-attendance, when it looks like we're in for a bumper crowd!
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Oh South London is wonderful. Sometimes we forget why South London really is wonderful. The Cutty Sark, Greenwich Park, The Royal Artillery, but most of all its wonderful people.
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Four? Or five? Our Man In The Know doesn't know. Not yet anyway. But you can bet your life he'll have worked it out before anybody else does....
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And shorty. And socky. I've been regaled with numerous tales of fun and frivolity from Addicks who were at the Charlton Kit-Sponsors Annual Do, down at the Valley this week. It sounds like it was a real blast....
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Among other things, Our Man In The Know puts up a strong case in defence of the Rt Hon Francis Lampard QC. So strong in fact that I might even have to consider my own position on the "Fat Frank" debate....
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