This is from a Chris Powell article in 2006;
Charlton Athletic defender, Chris Powell, first played for England in the 3-0 win over Spain in 2001, he went on to win 5 England caps. His faith in Jesus Christ helps him to cope with pressures of playing football at the highest level:
It gives me a sort of inner-peace, a sort of well-being. I live my life for this way, and that’s because of the Lord and what has happened, and what he done to save me, and save everyone.
It gives me a great joy to know that the Lord is around me at all times, and I can pray for things whether it is good or bad that’s happened in my football career, because that does happen; you have a good game, you have a bad game. But having that Christian faith just helps me along with the good and the bad times, I know he is there at all times.
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One thing the assures me is that we now have in bwp a goal scorer we have been lacking for some time. All teams that win promation tend to have a 20+ plus forward and thats we we can use to build on, we are nly a few points and plyers of putting a run together at the right time.
If we dont go up this year, lets give CP our full support to build his own team with a bit more money. CAFC
Gavin Peacock's life revolves around his faith and I suspect many more people in the game are influenced by religion.
In the words of Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park): That is one big pile of sh...
Absolutely. Richard Rufus is now a minister. And there are quite a few of us on CL who are bell-ringers at our local churches. I mentioned bell-ringing in passing once before and to my surprise got two messages from Charlton Lifers saying ''me too'' !
Perhaps we should form a new clique. The Holier Than Thou Possee has a certain class, don't you think? And we could install a huge bell at the Valley and ring it whenever the North End goes a bit quiet...
Start praying, Ormy!
I stopped praying for Charlton a long time ago, probably around 1990 when God - who had never let me down previously - got us relegated from the old Division One in truly abject fashion.
Devout Atheist these days but to be fair to the big man he did pull in some great wins for us back in the day, especially Leeds in the PO's back in 1987 when as a spotty 15-year old I made Him all sorts of promises regarding my nocturnal habits if only he would let us win that game!
....unless he is a Carlisle United fan, or Exeter City, Walsall, Swindon Town........
Sorry mate, I tried so hard but I think it was losing three times to Palace at Selhurst in 1989/90 that finally pushed me over the edge.
Getting relegated by Wimbledon at Smelhurst finished me off.
???? AC asked a question and Saga answered it, sort of. He just said THIS but nothing else. Did you miss off a link Saga? I'd love to know the answer to AC's question. Don't keep it to yourself fella.
Please don't talk about Millwall players on here!
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I was just agreeing with AC. So, I should have maybe said "I agree with what AC said". When I've seen a single "This" before or after a quote in threads before, that is what I have assumed was the meaning.
How disappointing.
I'm glad you said that - for a moment I thought you were going to say we should ring the bell whenever we scored - we'd hardly ever hear it!
Seek guidance from the Lord to get over your disappointment
I stopped praying for us last season. I was at home when we were away at Exeter and I was listening to Soccer Saturday. It was one of the last games of the season and we scored and it meant that due to Millwall, Leeds and Nowich's results we were promoted as it stood. I panicked and turned the tv off, literally got down on my knees in the middle of the living room floor and for 5 solid minutes prayed quite possibly harder than I had ever done before that we would go up and if we did Id be a better person, call my mum more and help pensioners across the road.
Took a deep breath, dusted myself off and turned the TV back on.....We'd let one in and Millwall had scored and we were back out of the mix.
I felt like going out to mug an old lady and after doing something similar prior to the England Germany game in the WC I haven't prayed about football since.