Rampant Robins to maul Mighty Owls....?

Init marvellous...?

Only 3 games into the season and we having our first 6-pointer already and, if Charlton play true to form, we'll probably fuck it up big time, lose 1-0 to a soft clart of a goal and then run round like headless Robins trying to do our best not to look like a Premiership team that's just been relegated and haven't got a clue how to play 90 minutes of rough boy football...

Cries of 'You don't know what you're doing...' will echo across the Valley along with other merrysome quips such as 'Pard's Out..' and copious amounts of 'Sack the board..' and 'Bring on the Nigerians..' will bellow out long into the night, we might even get a round or two of 'We want Dowie...' thrown in for good measure (but I doubt it, somehow...)

By the time the Covered End Choir get round to blasting out a wholesome rendition of 'You're not fit to wear the shirt...' messrs Bent and Co will have bolted hastily towards the tunnel, donned their Harmani suits, splashed on the old Brut and made a bee line for TGIF where Reidy will treat everyone to cow pie and muscat squash sandwiches...

After the scoff they'll all get on the karaoke for a drunken rendition of 'Look at my wad...' by Harry Enfield sung to the tune of 'I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts...' Bent will bore everyone shitless on how it only took him 24 years to score 100 goals, ZZ will get lifted for selling dodgy DVD's to the undercover Custom and Exercise officers sitting quitely in the corner enjoying their pints of snakebite and giant packets of beef crisps and Weaver will get barred for life for dropping his guts more times than he drops the frigging ball during the warm up.....

Even the immensly loveable Chrissy Powell, who'll come on for the last ten minutes and give away a penalty, bless him, will suffer the harsh tongue of the thronging masses when he tries to do his now almost famous end of game salute to his adoring fans. Shouts of 'fuck off you useless cunt...' will be left ringing in his ears as he turns sulkily away and bugger off with his sorry tail between his legs....

Doesn't make happy reading I know but you know it'll probably come true, and remember, you heard it here first...

Bring on the Nigerians...

According to Jason Burt, sports writer for the Independent, Charlton may be subject to a 'takeover' by an un-named Nigerian businessman, is this a good idea or not.....?

Hmmmm.....let's look at the facts....

If you want success in today's game you need money, and lots of it and the only current way to get it appears to be from foreign investors. Seems like a good idea and it is, as long you are one of three or four clubs that have it.....

Imagine if every premier club had access to unlimited funds, there would still be only one league champion, one cup winner, at the other end of the table three clubs would still get relegated....

Once everyone starts getting 'invested in' then after a while we all back to square one as it's the clubs with the biggest investors that will continue to win everything and head into Europe consistently....

Problem with Charlton, and other small 'ambitious' clubs, is we've missed the boat, there are already too many 'glamour' clubs with too big a head start and just like the days before foreign investors we've already missed the boat and there's no real chance of ever catching up...

The only positive side to potential investment at this moment is the fact we're are currently in the hokey cokey league and a sudden injection of massive amounts of dosh should mean we would be able to buy our way out of it with little problem, a bit like Sunderland last year.

Once we are back in the prem though it would be back to the 'surrival of the fittest' with cash having little impact as we would once agian be relegated to be one of the league's perriennial struggling minnows as we could not realistically complete on monetry terms with the likes of the Arse or Manures of the footballing world....

So, if we want to get out of the chumpionship pretty quick sharp it's 'bring on the Nigerians' (just don't give them your bank acount details), we certainly don't look like we going to play our way out of it....

Welcome to the Chumpionship...

Well, it happened, surprise, surprise...

We got relegated....

Despite the services of three, yes three, top managers, Charlton Athletic plopped into the fizzy pop league rather unceremoniously and now can look forward to awe inspiring trips to Scunthorpe, Colchester, Plymouth etc....

Good news is that most of the players that got us there are gone, like rats leaving the sinking ship they've done a runner to pastures new, some with ungenerous parting shots, some finally realising they wanted to play for a better club the whole time, some were so shite they just packed their bags and buggered off. I was disappointed to find that none seemed to accept their role in getting us relegated, 'Oh no, Not me guv...'

Mind you, it wasn't all the players, management or directors fault, no, there was those cheating buggers from the East End, using illegal immigrants to save their sorry arses. Then there was the fact that every referee in the had it in for us and ganged up on us by giving dodgy decisions left, right and centre....

Nevermind, the management must be rubbing their grimy little hands at the prospect off loading such a hefty pile of unmotivated money grabbing greedy bastards, mention no names. It's hokey cokey wages now lads, Murray's wallet is tighter than a ducks arse, no more showing off to the big boys by paying ridiculous high wages for ridiculously mediocre players......

Still, whilst I admire Murray for the amount of money he's put into Charlton, I still haven't forgiven him for sticking his nose into the management side of the game which I sincerely believe had the ultimate effect of getting us un-promoted, let's hope the interferring twat has learned his lesson this season....

Thank goodness we got Pards though, he's no mug, he knew the writing was on the corrugated wall some time ago and he had the wisdom and insight to farm out a number of players last season to the fizzy pop teams in order that they gain some valuable experience at that level (just in case we really did get relegated that is, wink, wink...)

Seems strange though that before the season actually starts he should then flog the very same experienced players off to the lowest bidder and then go out and buy some more, funny old game these football transfers. Still, Pards is no fool when it comes to the transfer market and I trust him implicitly in all his decisions, and if he says a player is going nowhere then you can take that as the final word and if he wants to go abroad and buy crap foreign players wearing gloves that have always dreamed of playing for the mighty Addicks then that's his business...

But, like every Charlton supporter that's gone before me, I've got experience in this sort of thing and there isn't anything that can surprise me now, in fact, it's all a bit of a giggle really and it I look forward to the last day of the season so I can say.....

'I knew that was going to happen....'

Chin, chin..