Just read Nick Szczepanik's report in The Times, and think it was a decent piece:
You know that you are a team to be taken seriously when other decent sides come to your ground hoping to hold you to a draw and celebrate after doing so as if they had just won a title. So Saturday’s result at The Valley was a compliment of sorts to Charlton Athletic and a warning that plenty of other clubs will be attempting to do what Oldham Athletic did, and that they will have to find a way to overcome it.
Their supporters would like that to happen quickly. This was Charlton’s third successive match without scoring, but the first time they have failed to find the net at home. It meant that they failed to draw level on points with Leeds United, the Coca-Cola League One leaders.
There was no lack of good football, but Oldham defended diligently to prevent Charlton translating theirs into goals and stretched their unbeaten run to five games into the bargain.
“No disrespect to ourselves, but if we had come to try to give Charlton a game of football, we were going to come off second-best,” Sean Gregan, the Oldham captain who marshalled his defence impressively, said.
“So we had a plan to frustrate them and narrow the space for Jonjo Shelvey, because he’s going to be a top player.
“They’ve got a lot of footballers that they’ve kept from last year. At times they probably could have got it forward a bit quicker and tried to get down the sides of us a bit more, but they’re sitting second top and that’s the way they’ve played all season, so you can’t really argue with it — and give us a bit of credit for frustrating them. They ran out of ideas a bit at the end, which was good for us.”
Charlton did attempt to change their style in the final quarter of the match, sending on Izale McLeod and Leon McKenzie, but came closest through defenders. Miguel Ángel Llera’s header skimmed the crossbar and Kelly Youga’s overhead kick made more solid contact with the same piece of woodwork. McLeod failed badly with two good chances, the second laid on by McKenzie on his debut for the club after signing as a free agent after being released by Coventry City in the summer.
“I whispered a few words to him because he obviously will have been feeling quite distraught about it,” McKenzie said. “I feel there are goals in this team, but it’s going to be frustrating because other teams always want to beat the teams at the top. So you maybe have to take the draws sometimes.
“On another day we could have won this, we had the chances.”
That paragraph from Leon is confusing jabber. Other teams are trying to beat you so you have to accept draws? Wonder what few words he whispered to Shiz?
[cite]Hypothetically Whispered By: Leon Mac[/cite]
How did you fking miss that, son?
Take no notice of MC, he's probably still smarting from the kick in the nads he got after the piss poor takeover article that got everyone so riled up...
I don't recall any such inspirational journalism when we won six on the trot, he's been waiting in the wings for this moment so he can have a pop at Parky, ignore him, he won't go away, but it'll help...
[cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]RedZed......I find it hard not to agree with you on all you've said though it pains me to say so...after all, Mick is an Addick of long standing.
Does that mean we're friends now...:)
We all know MC's a dyed in the wool Addict and power to his elbow and all that, but that doesn't give him carte blanche to have a pop at us every now and then just because he gets a semi on and feels the urge to do so..
If he does feel the need to slag the team off then that's fair enough, he should do it on places like this though, not usurp his reporting priviledge by having his own personal and private opinions emblazoned in some wishy washy rag where the recipients of his uninvited and overley biased diatribe don't get a fair right of reply...
[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]Relax...no one reads the Daily Mail for its football coverage, it's a paper aimed at bossy middle-class women and right-wing reactionaries.
I only get it to wipe my arse so the wife can do the crossword in bed...
[cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]I do fear that the wheels are beginning to fall off the bus
Can you expand on that?
It went into 4x4 territory and due to old axels, loose bearings and a rusty undercarriage some creeky noises were said to be heard on turning sharp corners.
[cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]RedZed......I find it hard not to agree with you on all you've said though it pains me to say so...after all, Mick is an Addick of long standing.
Does that mean we're friends now...:)
We all know MC's a dyed in the wool Addict and power to his elbow and all that, but that doesn't give him carte blanche to have a pop at us every now and then just because he gets a semi on and feels the urge to do so..
If he does feel the need to slag the team off then that's fair enough, he should do it on places like this though, not usurp his reporting priviledge by having his own personal and private opinions emblazoned in some wishy washy rag where the recipients of his uninvited and overley biased diatribe don't get a fair right of reply...
Surely that's got to win 'October Post of The Month' award.
[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]Relax...no one reads the Daily Mail for its football coverage, it's a paper aimed at bossy middle-class women and right-wing reactionaries.
I only get it to wipe my arse so the wife can do the crossword in bed...
What? So your wife can't do a crossword until you've wiped your arse. What kind of household do you live in?
[cite]Posted By: oohaahmortimer[/cite]he says it how he sees it ...imo the truth hurts and no one likes to hear it when it doesn't smell of roses...
we're still[strike]5th[/strike]2nd ... DON'T PANIC
yep everything is beautiful in la la charlton land and please don't say otherwise ..we love the premiershipchampionship league one it is the place to be and how dare anyone feel/say anything negative.... these are great days to be a charlton fan and if you don't like it then don't express your dissatisfaction on here because you can't be a true fan even if you go to the games or not.... if you fail to get as eqaully excited over a victory against walsall as you did over arsenal then you can't be real charlton ....
[cite]Posted By: oohaahmortimer[/cite]yep everything is beautiful in la la charlton land and please don't say otherwise ..we love the[strike]premiership[/strike][strike]championship[/strike]league one it is the place to be and how dare anyone feel/say anything negative.... these are great days to be a charlton fan and if you don't like it then don't express your dissatisfaction on here because you can't be a true fan even if you go to the games or not.... if you fail to get as eqaully excited over a victory against walsall as you did over arsenal then you can't be real charlton ....
[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]Relax...no one reads the Daily Mail for its football coverage, it's a paper aimed at bossy middle-class women and right-wing reactionaries.
I only get it to wipe my arse so the wife can do the crossword in bed...
What? So your wife can't do a crossword until you've wiped your arse. What kind of household do you live in?
And what's worse, she's got to wait until Sunday to do it...
[cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]Nah, not touched a drop for 6 years, so must be something in the water.
Anyway, still waiting on the Curbs love in quote from you for a full house.
just for you 6 years ago when curbs was in charge
Sun Sep 28 Liverpool 15:00 H W 3-2 Premiership
Sat Oct 04 Portsmouth 15:00 A W 2-1 Premiership
Mon Oct 20 Blackburn Rovers 20:00 A W 1-0 Premiership
Sun Oct 26 Arsenal 14:00 H D 1-1 Premiership
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You know that you are a team to be taken seriously when other decent sides come to your ground hoping to hold you to a draw and celebrate after doing so as if they had just won a title. So Saturday’s result at The Valley was a compliment of sorts to Charlton Athletic and a warning that plenty of other clubs will be attempting to do what Oldham Athletic did, and that they will have to find a way to overcome it.
Their supporters would like that to happen quickly. This was Charlton’s third successive match without scoring, but the first time they have failed to find the net at home. It meant that they failed to draw level on points with Leeds United, the Coca-Cola League One leaders.
There was no lack of good football, but Oldham defended diligently to prevent Charlton translating theirs into goals and stretched their unbeaten run to five games into the bargain.
“No disrespect to ourselves, but if we had come to try to give Charlton a game of football, we were going to come off second-best,” Sean Gregan, the Oldham captain who marshalled his defence impressively, said.
“So we had a plan to frustrate them and narrow the space for Jonjo Shelvey, because he’s going to be a top player.
“They’ve got a lot of footballers that they’ve kept from last year. At times they probably could have got it forward a bit quicker and tried to get down the sides of us a bit more, but they’re sitting second top and that’s the way they’ve played all season, so you can’t really argue with it — and give us a bit of credit for frustrating them. They ran out of ideas a bit at the end, which was good for us.”
Charlton did attempt to change their style in the final quarter of the match, sending on Izale McLeod and Leon McKenzie, but came closest through defenders. Miguel Ángel Llera’s header skimmed the crossbar and Kelly Youga’s overhead kick made more solid contact with the same piece of woodwork. McLeod failed badly with two good chances, the second laid on by McKenzie on his debut for the club after signing as a free agent after being released by Coventry City in the summer.
“I whispered a few words to him because he obviously will have been feeling quite distraught about it,” McKenzie said. “I feel there are goals in this team, but it’s going to be frustrating because other teams always want to beat the teams at the top. So you maybe have to take the draws sometimes.
“On another day we could have won this, we had the chances.”
I don't recall any such inspirational journalism when we won six on the trot, he's been waiting in the wings for this moment so he can have a pop at Parky, ignore him, he won't go away, but it'll help...
Mail on Sunday = Fail on Sunday...
We all know MC's a dyed in the wool Addict and power to his elbow and all that, but that doesn't give him carte blanche to have a pop at us every now and then just because he gets a semi on and feels the urge to do so..
If he does feel the need to slag the team off then that's fair enough, he should do it on places like this though, not usurp his reporting priviledge by having his own personal and private opinions emblazoned in some wishy washy rag where the recipients of his uninvited and overley biased diatribe don't get a fair right of reply...
I can't help but think Andrex and a dedicated crossword book might be better for everybody.
Rip yer piles to pieces...
It went into 4x4 territory and due to old axels, loose bearings and a rusty undercarriage some creeky noises were said to be heard on turning sharp corners.
Surely that's got to win 'October Post of The Month' award.
What? So your wife can't do a crossword until you've wiped your arse. What kind of household do you live in?
we're still 5th 2nd ... DON'T PANIC
BINGO!
NEARLY A FULL HOUSE!
Nope, just playing Ooh Aah Bingo
ok as long as you are happy
Yeah, I'm happy with my life, shame you ain't, but then I don't live it through a football club position like you do
YEAH DEFINITELY DRUNK
i think he must be drunk or stalking me , just gonna have a look out the window??
btw i'm happy with your life if you are happy with it
Anyway, still waiting on the Curbs love in quote from you for a full house.
Oh, and the Curbs love only gives you another line, surely? For the full house you need the bemoaning the poor away attendances too.
just for you 6 years ago when curbs was in charge
Sun Sep 28 Liverpool 15:00 H W 3-2 Premiership
Sat Oct 04 Portsmouth 15:00 A W 2-1 Premiership
Mon Oct 20 Blackburn Rovers 20:00 A W 1-0 Premiership
Sun Oct 26 Arsenal 14:00 H D 1-1 Premiership
great memories