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A HUGELY impressive 20,470 supporters turned up to see bottom-of-the-table Charlton Athletic lose at home to Coventry City in midweek. Except, it seems, they didn’t. Indeed, when the ‘attendance’ figure was announced during the game it provided a rare moment of levity for the home fans – according to a couple of authoritative sources, there were actually 13,000 people inside the ground. Charlton, apparently, have pioneered a morale-boosting approach that involves them counting not only the people who turn up to watch the game, but those who briefly thought about it and then decided that they couldn’t be arsed and went down to the pub instead, or hung out on London Bridge station with their little notebooks and Thermos flasks. Good idea, chaps.
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Anyone else having a recurring nightmare that we'll be swapping divisions with Millwall next season, thus not even getting to beat them twice?
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Spanner or not, Liddle's one of the best political journos around.
And Season Tickets are all counted in per match, as tickets sold.
Just another example of not letting the facts get in the way of a good story.
The only reference I've seen of 13,000 actually present, is when AFKA said so on here the morning after the Cov match.
Does that mean the Spanner twat is ghosting on this board to get his stories ....?
He's probably the identity of that wind-up poster Yung1234 or whatever his username was, lol
To Mr liddle face facts, even if Charlton were guilty of skullduggery and the attendance was only 13,000 its still a good 6,000 more than the populace of the rusting meccano set.
It rather appears that most weeks spanners "can't be arsed" to go and watch the 'wall judging by their attendances even though they are bucking the trend and for a change having a good season(up to now), Millwall rarely ever sustain it anyway.
As those above, ignore the c*nt - when was the last time Smallwall got 17,000 at home for any fixture
Does their ground even hold that number?
A few years ago, he wouldn't have been able to do a joke about Charlton, because of the position of the club, both financially and in terms of the league. Now he can put it in a column in the Sunday Times in the safe knowledge that all sports fans will get the joke because all of them know how badly we have stumbled and how far we have fallen.
He might be a 'sad man' as Inspector Sands said, a "spanner pr*ck" as Leroy says or even a "c*nt" as Kinveachy says, but they're all missing the point.
Our club is in such a terrible, desperate state, that a journalist can make a joke at our expense in a column not purely aimed at football fans, and know that they'll understand it. That's how far the news of our chaos has stretched, and that's how widely it's known. The point here isn't Rod Liddle, although if calling him names makes you feel better, then good luck to you, but how far we've fallen and how willing people are, all of a sudden, to laugh at us.
We don't help ourselves - within hours of a defeat, the website has found some second-rate story to relegate the report of another defeat down the page a bit. We're falling to pieces on the pitch, we pay 100% of our turnover on players salaries, next season we'll sell about 8,000 season tickets (if that) and the parachute payments have gone. We're bad on the pitch and bad with the banks and the general public now see us as enough of a figure of fun, that when someone makes a joke about us, they associate us with footballing failure, and laugh along.
Sod Rod Liddle - that's the real story.
What makes his story weaker is that he is unwilling to back up the "facts" with anything other than the typical crap Journo comment of having an "authoritative source". Its hugely transparent to anyone with an IQ higher than 90 (so that counts out 9/10 Millsmall fans and George W Bush) that he has picked this figure up from a website. Most probably here.
The same as it ever was - Rodney Charlton Trotter, Jim "Charlton nil" Davidson, the bloke in Fossdene Youth Club in the 80s laughing because I supported "Charlton Pathetic", etc.
Whether that is a measure of how far we have fallen as a club or that fans would much prefer to do something else rather than go to the match is something we need to ask ourselves.
That person is now describing a journalist on a forum available to read by everyone and anyone as a "bearded triple-chinned nob".
Apart from anything else, Liddle hasn't got a beard. Do they mean Martin Samuel? Are they confused?
Either way, it explains why our club get such bad publicity. Because the press office is staffed by chippy little people, who borrow log ins which then get used to have a pop at people with widely read newspaper columns, having made a mistake about who they actually are.
You couldn't make it up (to steal a newspaper phrase). And they wonder why the world seems ready to have a go at us?
...and he pretends to be a jounalist to boot.