Same old moaning from scally, what he seems to be unable to grasp is a true fan supports a club for life, many of my friends and family who now live in the medway towns already supported Charlton. Charlton did not steal us from Gillingham they just made it easier to get to Charlton, curious to know how many people who use the valley express where actually attending Gillingham games regularly before the introduction of the service.
My grandad was born and bred in Charlton and was a proud Kentishman (and Addick) - because, as Bing says, Charlton is historically a Kentish district that is now also a district of inner London. So by your logic, Mr KIBAW, if a bureaucrat came along and said 'Gillingham is now in the new county of South Essex' you would be OK with that?
And presumably Scally would then start having a go at Southend and Colchester for competing for 'his' Essex fans?
[cite]Posted By: bigstemarra[/cite]Isn't Millwall proper on the Isle of Dogs? In that case it's Middlesex, not Essex (the border is the River Lea I think).
Note the insignia on the Blackwall Tunnel next time you head north from the promised land....
you're right. A few spanners use this fact to make out that they are the east end team and west ham are an essex team.
[cite]Posted By: bingaddick[/cite]Kibaw, you can't have it both ways. Both Charlton and Bromley are in historical Kent. Due to reorganisations of local government administration, one in 1889 and the other in 1964, both were placed in London. Charlton addresses kept the description Kent until London post codes were introduced. Bromley addresses have been allowed, as a sop to those who opposed in at the time, to continue to use Kent in their address. You're just trying to wriggle out of it because you don't like the truth which you deny. Charlton is a Kentish Town which for reasons local government reorganisation finds itself in the London Borough of Greenwich, Bromley is also a Kentish town which now finds itself in London Borough of Bromley. There is no difference it's just that one happened before the other.
But Charlton were formed in 1905 - so Charlton was in London when they were formed even though it was in Kent at one point in history. If you go back in your history books far enough it was probably in the Kingdom of Wessex at some point in the middle ages but that doesn't mean we're the pride of the Kindom of Wessex does it (although we should be!) ?
We're a London club with a large number of Kentish fans due to our proximity to that county.
We are a regional side and that is our catchment area although our roots are in SE7/SE10 and long may that remain.
There is a duality and this is underlined by Kent playing Cricket in recent years both at Beckenham and Blackheath.
We have attracted fans from Dartford, Medway and beyond for decades back to before Gillingham were allowed back in the league after being kicked out in 1938. Most of the fans living in Kent are part of the post-war diaspora from SE London.
Charlton Athletic FC is not in the Administrative area of Kent CC but then neither is Gillingham FC so all talk of county boundaries are pointless.
Oh the Kingdom of Wessex is wonderful
Oh the Kingdom of Wessex is wonderful
It's full Londoners, Kenters and Charlton
Oh the Kingdom of Wessex is wonderful
[cite]Posted By: RalphMilnesgut[/cite]Oh the Kingdom of Wessex is wonderful
Oh the Kingdom of Wessex is wonderful
It's full Londoners, Kenters and Charlton
Oh the Kingdom of Wessex is wonderful
[cite]Posted By: bigstemarra[/cite]They're not as bad as those bleeding Mercians. Talk about uncivilised...
'You're the sh*te of the heptarchy'
'You always pay the Danegeld, you always pay the Danegeld'
'Your mead hall is too big for you'
PMSL at "your mead hall's too big for you"
And "Heptatchy" as well. Comes over all football lad like but he's a bloody intellectual : - )
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[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]"Run from the Vikings, you always run from the Vikings"
Vikings, huh, no chance ... just a bunch of posers with big helmets.
Some of my best mates are Vikings. I'm not anti-viking immigration I'm just worried about the numbers. If we're not careful we'll all be worshipping Woden and Thor soon. : - )
Vikings integrated fine (bar the odd misunderstanding of the general rape/pillage/burn/ mass slaughter variety) coz yer Anglo-Saxons worshipped Woden and they called him Odin. It was yer christians that were the problem... :)
[cite]Posted By: bigstemarra[/cite]Damn, my disguise is slipping...
Vikings integrated fine (bar the odd misunderstanding of the general rape/pillage/burn/ mass slaughter variety) coz yer Anglo-Saxons worshipped Woden and they called him Odin. It was yer christians that were the problem...
yeah, they come here with their funny foreign religion and expect us to follow that.
They'll be banning Yuletide next in case it offends them. : - )
"Your brother is from Wessex
Your sister is from Essex
Your parents were from Mercia
And you talk in an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between the middle of the fifth and twelfth centuries".
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And presumably Scally would then start having a go at Southend and Colchester for competing for 'his' Essex fans?
We may have most of our support from Kent, but that's not the same. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Millwall have just as much claim to being a kent club as Charlton”
Millwall are an Essex team squatting south of the river so they have no claim to Kent supporters and should go back where they came from
Please sink !
Fine you don't care. Some of us do. The comments were specifically a rebuttal of the Gills fan. Shame your not interested in the truth.
Note the insignia on the Blackwall Tunnel next time you head north from the promised land....
you're right. A few spanners use this fact to make out that they are the east end team and west ham are an essex team.
Oh yes, amidst all the fun I forgot....... we stole them all! They didn't have many to begin with!!
But Charlton were formed in 1905 - so Charlton was in London when they were formed even though it was in Kent at one point in history. If you go back in your history books far enough it was probably in the Kingdom of Wessex at some point in the middle ages but that doesn't mean we're the pride of the Kindom of Wessex does it (although we should be!) ?
We're a London club with a large number of Kentish fans due to our proximity to that county.
We are a regional side and that is our catchment area although our roots are in SE7/SE10 and long may that remain.
There is a duality and this is underlined by Kent playing Cricket in recent years both at Beckenham and Blackheath.
We have attracted fans from Dartford, Medway and beyond for decades back to before Gillingham were allowed back in the league after being kicked out in 1938. Most of the fans living in Kent are part of the post-war diaspora from SE London.
Charlton Athletic FC is not in the Administrative area of Kent CC but then neither is Gillingham FC so all talk of county boundaries are pointless.
Oh the Kingdom of Wessex is wonderful
It's full Londoners, Kenters and Charlton
Oh the Kingdom of Wessex is wonderful
Cerdic is our leader lalalalala
"In your Winchester Slums"
"go down mead hall
drink ten pints"
"Run from the Vikings, you always run from the Vikings"
Vikings, huh, no chance ... just a bunch of posers with big helmets.
'You're the sh*te of the heptarchy'
'You always pay the Danegeld, you always pay the Danegeld'
'Your mead hall is too big for you'
PMSL at "your mead hall's too big for you"
And "Heptatchy" as well. Comes over all football lad like but he's a bloody intellectual : - )
Some of my best mates are Vikings. I'm not anti-viking immigration I'm just worried about the numbers. If we're not careful we'll all be worshipping Woden and Thor soon. : - )
Vikings integrated fine (bar the odd misunderstanding of the general rape/pillage/burn/ mass slaughter variety) coz yer Anglo-Saxons worshipped Woden and they called him Odin. It was yer christians that were the problem... :)
yeah, they come here with their funny foreign religion and expect us to follow that.
They'll be banning Yuletide next in case it offends them. : - )
Your sister is from Essex
Your parents were from Mercia
And you talk in an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between the middle of the fifth and twelfth centuries".
Canterbury
London
Norwich
Exeter
Rochester
Ely
York
Chester
Gloucester
Winchester.
charlton kent
When it was Charleton ... yes.
I bet he's got a spread sheet on it :-)