Saturday was a day in which all days look forward to and when it arrives cherish. I took my son Ben (3) to his first game on Saturday. His hero is Nicky Bailey as well as is also a fan of Rob Elliot.
The missus drove us to the game and got down there nice and early as i wanted Ben to see the players come in to the ground and if possible get to have his photo taken with them.
I must applaud every single one of the players at the club (except one). Nothing was too much for them, and was more than happy to have their photos done with Ben and took time to speak to him.
1.29...........still no sign on Nicky Bailey and ZZ, how hearts were sinking as Ben desperatly wanted to meet Bailey. Then Darren Butterfield came along, in which i asked if he could sign the programme and have his photo taken with my young son, in which he responed that he didnt have time, and walked off, nice bloke.............so there we are thinking that all the players must be in, and that those who do turn up will not have their photo taken, ten minutes later, up walks Bailey, in which he was happy to have his picture taken with Ben, have a chat with him, and really has made his weekend, and finally ZZ, once again he was a gentleman, and signed his programme, had his photo taken.
Mr Butterfield there is something to be learnt from this, after meeting the players we went to the pub, just to show the boy what actually the day does consist of, in which Ben looked through the programme, and pointed out ZZ, as well as during the game was shouting his head off when Nicky Bailey and ZZ got the ball.
The players who done the club proud are as follows:
Kandol
Sam
Youga
Kinsella
Weaver
Elliot
Randolph
Racon
Bailey
Ward
Butterfield............go and crawl back under that stoe you come from, we at our club look after our young un's as they are the future fans that line your pockets
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I also had a really good day on Saturday. The match in the morning went well, we had a nice drink with the Preston lads after our game, walked down the Liberal and met some mates. Back in afterwards and had a good drink and a laugh.
Never known an actual game to be such a periphery feature to my day. Was with three guys off here who live in Cornwall, Hampshire and Queensland. I'm alright, Charlton is on my doorstep so i'm 'living it' all the time. When it becomes an occassional thing you have to make a big effort to travel for, you can understand why people are saying 'what's the point' ?
Hopefully your son will treasure the memory of the players that took the time out for him and in years to come will think Danny who?
All the best to you both as we are a friendly club and no-one can take that away!
Shame on Butterfield. Even if he was running late and about to get in trouble for missing the 1.30pm arrival time he could have said that and still quickly scribbled an autograph.
at least they didn't loose................everyone I know who has seen Charlton for the first time has seen them loose
maybe this is the turning point??????
;-)
Out of interest, you called him Darren in your original post, was that a joke or did you possibly call him that by mistake?
My boy's two. Not sure if he's ready for it just yet.Loves kicking a ball about though ,which is a good sign.