CARD is calling on as many Charlton fans as possible to assemble 90 minutes before tomorrow’s final home game of the season against Burnley kicks off to stage a massive sit-in protest behind The Valley’s west stand.
The Coalition Against Roland Duchatelet is aware that the club has hired an army of around 100 additional security staff to help them frisk every supporter entering the ground for anything that can be thrown during the match. There will also be a significant police presence.
So we are aiming to give the club a different kind of headache by occupying the whole concourse in front of the ticket office, main reception and VIP entrances from 11am onwards.
If the club responds by restricting admission to the west stand area to ticket holders, which on previous experience we don’t expect, we intend to block access completely using weight of numbers. But to make this work, we need your help. If you can’t get there by 11am, please join us when you can. And bring along any placards or banners that you already have.
CARD will again be carrying out a major distribution exercise and there will be plenty for volunteers to do from 10.30 onwards.
We’ll be protesting during the game in order to get our message across to the wider football world via the Sky cameras.
And we are also urging fans to return their season tickets to the club, either during the game or by leaving them at the Sam Bartram statue after the final whistle. CARD is not leading a post-match protest.
No matter how heavy the security operation tomorrow, it’s important that we end the season with a massive show of solidarity to show that the only plan Charlton fans are now willing to hear from Duchatelet is his exit one.
If you are able to help with distribution before tomorrow’s game and have not already been in touch, please email charlton.card@yahoo.co.uk
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However if some get comfortable...
Key thing is about getting numbers out pre game.
Robbo - I've paid to come to London to watch Charlton, and it is my right to enter the stadium whenever I feel like it and not be blocked whilst trying to do so.
Bring your placards all those that took them home!
Please.
We'll pass you over the top of the people like the end of Crocodile Dundee
It sounds the same as the normal stand outside the West Stand and protest gig. What, if anything, makes this different?
I do my bit in the East but come on you in the West and East... no more just casually watching, put down ur prawn sandwiches and cups of tea and actually do something, throw balls, tickets or whatever.
The whole ground needs to make a statement. I seem to surrounded by fans who seem happy to moan and accept how shit this regime is but are too scared to do anything.
This is your last chance to show your anger. No more apathy please.