More than 2,400 Addicks fans are heading to Selhurst Park and, in the wake of the Eagles' court case against former Charlton head coach Iain Dowie over the summer, Varney has appealed for everyone, including officials at both clubs, to concentrate on matters on the pitch this weekend. "I know our matches against Crystal Palace are among our most eagerly awaited fixtures of the current season, and I also have no doubt there will be more focus on matters off the pitch than on it over the next few days," he said.
"This will doubtless be fuelled by further foul-mouthed personal attacks on our board of directors that eager tabloid sports editors will be only too keen to give maximum exposure.
"But those of us involved at a senior level in the game have a responsibility to ensure we say or do nothing to cause problems for the police and other agencies by inciting trouble off the pitch."
He added: "During the summer, there was plenty of publicity when Iain Dowie lost his High Court action against Palace, but very little, if indeed any, reporting of the fact that Palace were ordered to reimburse our legal costs.
"You can be certain that football's governing bodies will be nowhere to be seen when these stories appear, and yet, as a club, we are determined not to respond and inflame the situation.
"The last time we played Palace at The Valley, there was a huge police presence inside and outside the ground, and there were a number of serious incidents in Greenwich and Lewisham in particular.
"This is something everyone should consider before making any comments that could increase the possibility of disorder."
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"Varney has appealed for everyone, including officials at both clubs, to concentrate on matters on the pitch this weekend"
and then
"This will doubtless be fuelled by further foul-mouthed personal attacks on our board of directors"
Slightly OTT really.
I'd much rather we just kept our mouths shut from a club point of view unless we are being attacked directly.
The club shouldnt even be getting involved at all, if Jordan wants to mouth off in the papers and act like a 10 year old, let him, be the better people and stay well out of it.
Must be hard to bite your tongue about that pricky little orange bastard. 90% of the animosity surrounding this game has been built up by Jordan - will there be any comeback on him? FA disciplinary charges? Letter of warning from the police? No. Didn't think so.
He's far more of a threat to the peace than Off-It's mate and I wouldn't be surprised to see him further inflaming the situation before the day is out. We already know he can give it out but can't take it back (he cried when Brian Cole called them 'Crystal Palarse') and uses a medium of communication with no right of reply to launch his pathetic attacks on us. The best thing we can possibly do though is beat them on the pitch and laugh all the way back to SE7. Then continue laughing as they languish below us in the league.
God, I hope we win!
Me too. I havent felt this nervous since the Playoff Final!!
Especially if you're being hypocritical as i think that article reads.
i think he's just pointing out that we have taken a large amount of mudslinging from the Orange One and basically any trouble that happens on saturday is that fooker's fault.
Simon Jordan and his arrogant Nigels have seen to that!
I get the impression that if he wasnt a director of the club, he's be there runnign with the b-mob for this one!
(I agree by the way).
(And I'd probably say I did even if I didn't!).
If TTM comes out tomorrow and says "I don't know what PV is talking about, we havent mentioned anything about this game this week but then he comes out accusing us of insulting them after saying matters should remain on the pitch......" etc etc.
We're the one's who look stupid.
Will you stop whinging about people whinging for God's sake!! ;-)
everything that simon jordan has done since that day that we relegated them has brought us to the present and the panic of the police sending out stupid letters.
he has never been warned once by any of the footalling authorities and has been let to vent his spleen at us through the media on many occasion.
God i hope we beat them.
ha ha, just kidding. everyone loves a whinge, even me.
A-fookin-men to that - top post!
Spot on.