Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.
Let's Give The Lie To Duchatelet's Nonsense
Stig
Posts: 29,021
Roland Duchatelet has dismissed Charlton's Unity Protesters as, “a few hot heads who previously worked directly or indirectly for the club and who were shown the door due to their rebellious and rowdy attitude”. Can we use this thread to show that that is just more of Roly's nonsense. If you are going to Beligium, please post your messages below.
I'm Stig and I have been a Charlton supporter for 46 years (and destined to be one for six years before that). I have never been employed by the club, let alone 'shown the door'.
I'm Stig and I have been a Charlton supporter for 46 years (and destined to be one for six years before that). I have never been employed by the club, let alone 'shown the door'.
24
Comments
-
I'm oohaah , I have been a supporter for 40 years and have never been employed by the club .
Although if Fox can be sold for £1m , at the ripe old age of 46 I'm considering donning my mouldy Puma Kings again and you may wish to consider me in a player / manager type role soon .6 -
Roland - I'm GHF, I'm a few months younger than you and this is my 63rd season as an Addick. I have never been an employee of CAFC. You, sir, have broken my club and broken my heart but you will never break my spirit. See you on the 4th in the Grote Markt, ouwe lul !!
18 -
Roland - I'm Harry, I'm 54 and have never been employed by Charlton, I didn't even take part in The Valley Clear-up as I was in Australia at the time. My acting started and finished at 6 years of age in a nativity play (shepherd). I'll be in the Grote Markt on the 4th.7
-
Sorry everyone, I think Roland is talking about me. I have been a fan for 50 years, but was employed by de clooob as a tray boy in 1972 and 1973, selling wagon wheels, crisps, and kiora to supporters at the front of the terraces. I grew my hair long, and joined a union. I drank copiously and may have dabbled with drugs. I liked punk rock. I followed Charlton over land and sea. I was a member of the barmy army at it's inception. Sadly I can't make this trip to Belgium due to being the epitomy of who Roland thinks is the problem with Charlton fans.24
-
I along with many, many others worked for the club for 2 days back in 1976 when I helped clear the terraces and pitch after The Who concert. I actually got paid around £1.00 a day if I can remember correctly. It certainly beat going to school. I can't remember getting sacked for being rowdy or rebellious.
Since then though Roland, I have just been a mere supporter of the club. I doubt very much that you have got anything to offer that can beat that so why not do us all a massive favour and f-off!
5 -
I have been a supporter of de cloob for over fifty years. Like Robert Lee, although he seems to have forgotten, I worked on the turnstiles at The Valley so I am a former employer. However, rather than being shown the door, I left. I'd struggle to call myself rowdy, although I did use to stand in The Covered End in my younger days and may have burst into song on occasion whilst there.
Sadly, I can't be in Sint Truiden on the 4th because the organisers failed to check my holiday schedule before they picked the date and I will be in sunnier climes. However, I'll be thinking of those that are there and hoping they make your life miserable. After all, you've done that to so many of us.
You are ruining my club - yes, it's my club, not yours, no matter how much debt you burden it with. Just sell, and go, and take your clown of a CEO with you.11 -
My father and both of my grandfathers were Charlton supporters. I attended my first game in February 1964. The nearest I have come to working for the club was trying to convince people who liked football but hadn't attached to a particular club that Charlton was the team they should follow. At least four such people became long term season ticket holders as a result of my efforts. Sadly, because of your ridiculous and harmful stewardship of the club, my conscience now prevents me from recommending Charlton to anybody.9
-
I'm pbs.
I must suffer from amnesia because I can't remember working for cafc.
But you or your CEO would never lie.
I've checked my finances and can confirm I've received no wages from you.
Don't worry, just take it off your asking price for da cloob.7 -
I'm RedChaser Roland a supporter of nearly 60 years keeping up the family tradition of following my football team which my father, sadly no longer with us, began in 1933 as a 15 year old.
I've never worked for the club apart from a bit of voluntary waste clearance nearly 30 years ago but I must confess to standing on the picket line to spread the word about your regime's mindless destruction of a famous old football club.
Unfortunately I have to attend a prior commitment of my other family so won't be able to be in St Truiden on 4 March but lots of my brothers and sisters will be, to dispel the myths and lies about our plight, enjoy the experience you deserve it.
Oh, and none of us have equity cards by the way
. 10 -
I'm dread_pirate_addick. I'm part of the echo boomer generation (so not a vindictive old miserable man); the generation of people that you royally screwed our future and I'll be damned if I'll let you do that to our club.
Never been employed by the club, but if I did, I'd have seen it as an absolute privilege and honour, not some "right" like your imbecile of a CEO!
Do us a favour, take your fortune, retire and f*** off to some place anywhere but here. I'll list you a few options:
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- North Korea10 - Sponsored links:
-
Hello Roland old chap.
I 'celebrated' 50 years supporting Charlton in January this year. The closest I have come to working for CAFC is when my band was booked for a function in one of the suites about 10 years ago. (Coincidentally by a rugby club. There was much dancing and celebration that you would surely have approved of, marred only by the singing of some rather rude songs by those naughty rugby lads).
Now I'm sure outside of all this nonsense you are a thoroughly likeable bloke. The trouble is, the way you are destroying our club leads a lot of Charlton fans to think you are a bitter, twisted nasty piece of work who thinks he can do what he likes with our club because he has money. Please do the decent thing; perhaps buy a rugby club! Maybe you could use your visionary skills to sort out those who sing such rude songs. Many thanks. IHS5 -
I'm rana. I've never worked for the club. My late mum used to go to Charlton games in the 30s and 40s but I am sorry to say it took me a lot longer before I started to visit The Valley. I wasn't around during the Back to the Valley days, or indeed the Premiership days; I started going consistently the last time we were in League One. That was different, though, there was a good feeling around the club and it was led by a man I was proud to see as our manager, Chris Powell. And he got his team playing wonderfully and many of them are now plying their trade at the top of the Championship. (That's better than most Belgian football, in case you hadn't worked that out yet).
Some of my friends might say I have a rebellious or rowdy attitude. Good. Putting up with crap just because someone more powerful than you says it has to be that way is a one-way ticket to dictatorship. Or was that something else you didn't learn from your failure in politics?
I am pleased to say I will be paying my first proper visit to Belgium soon to show how strongly I feel about this. I hope to meet other CAFC fans and indeed, Belgian fans of STVV, who feel the same way about your sporting failures. Yes, failures. I know Katrien says you don't do failure. But in your heart of hearts you know you do. You've failed at politics. Now you've failed at football. Why not try stamp collecting?
9 -
I'm Neal. I have supported CAFC since 1972. I have had a season ticket since 1980, until this season that is. I have never worked for the Club. Just sell up and go, you are not wanted here. See you in Belgium Roland.8
-
Hi Roland,
I'm Missed It. I first started going to Charlton back in 1992, when we played at Upton Park (RIP) and our crowds were about the same size as it was for that dismal game against Oxford this week. At least we had hope back then.
I've never worked for Charlton. In fact, I try to avoid work whenever possible, a bit like your worthless CEO. Please sell the club to someone who might care about Charlton's success on the pitch.10 -
Hi Roland - I have supported the club for well over 40 years. My son was christened at the Valley and has been a mascot twice, I had Valley Floyd Road played at my wedding, I have Charlton pictures all over the walls of my house, Until last year, my wife son and me were season ticket holders.
I have never worked for Charlton Roland. As well as being a coward, you are a proven liar. You told the Belgian people that the players you brought in were better than Powell's. You said Powell was stupid and the players you brought in kept us up. You know that is a lie. Apart from one player who Powell wanted straight away, the players you brought in were all rubbish failures. You also sold Kermogant and Stephens which speaks for itself! Of course the Belgian people do not have enough interest in Charlton to know the truth, but we know. You and your CEO are LIARS!
I don't mind you calling me stupid - but a club legend like Powell is crossing a line! You are stupid if you don't see that you have to sell now. There is no positive future for you with this club!16 -
I'm Jean.Have supported Charlton for just short of 47 years. My late Dad was out on the terraces before even you were born Roland! I was employed by the club at 15, when I and my school friend sold Golden Goal tickets to the fans. We loved doing this and got free admission to the match and 10% of our takings, usually a whole pound! A lot of money in 1973. We both left at the end of the season to concentrate on our "0" Levels, and neither was shown the door for being rowdy or disruptive. Since then I've continued to support my team through thick and thin, with time off to fight battles against cancer. However, you have finally managed what no-one else could, and made me not enjoy or want to be at the Valley anymore. Do hope you are proud of yourself, as there are many more like me, thousands of us, in fact. One look at the empty stands should confirm this to any idiot, but I suppose you are a special kind. Please go now.22
-
I was ball boy fo a couple of seasons and was Floyd once, does that count as working for the club?6
-
Roland: My parents moved to Charlton in World War Two whilst in the Army and raised a family there and they now rest in Charlton Cemetery. I was baptised, schooled and married in Charlton and it has played a large part in my family's life. Between around 1963 and 2016 I regularly watched Charlton play football and for around the last 20 of these years had a season ticket. I have not been there at all this season because of you and your CEO. No-one in my family has ever been employed by CAFC and I am 'of good character'. I find your remarks offensive and insulting
Roland if you are right, why not name and shame these bitter ex employees. As the saying goes either 'put up or shut up'.20 -
I'm John; started supporting Charlton in 1962 when I lived and grew up in the area.
Left London in 1969 and from 1972 to 2011 studied and worked as an archaeologist on sites in England, Italy and the Middle East and thereafter as an ancient historian currently based in the West Country.
I have never worked for Charlton.
I was appalled by your 'work-experience' appointment into a senior management CEO role, of Katrien Meire........
Her dismissal of the history of the Club with the words Je m'en fous (I really don't care) touched a particular nerve with me and must go down as one of her most insulting comments among a plethora of such offerings.12 -
Dear Roland.
I know that a football club is a business. But how does somebody "work indirectly" for a business, anyway?. Do you perhaps mean, doing loads of stuff which helps the business, without being paid? If so, OK, I am one of them. 27 years ago I persuaded the boss of arguably the UK's best advertising agency at the time to run a campaign which helped the Club get back home. Failure would have led to the club withering and dying. The agency did all this work for free. Funny enough, Roland, my boss's name was Chris Powell.
The week after we returned home, I started my new life and work in Prague, where I remain now, so obviously it wasn't practical to continue to be "employed", even for nothing. So I tried to continue my support by buying the VIP, buying the shares, and most bizarrely, buying a season ticket even though I could never use it more than 5 times a season. What a business, Roland, customers so loyal they spend shed loads of disposable income on something they can hardly consume!
I expect, Roland, that because the campaign appears in Rick's book, and when I am at the Valley I sit where he and others from that campaign sit, I have been identified to you as one of "them". Maybe not as an employee, but as one of the "hotheads?" Well people tried to describe us that way (or worse) in 1990, but we were just citizens who succeeded in starting a conversation which led those in power to change their minds. Far from being a "hothead", Roland, I've tried to get the conversation going with you through 'correct' channels. You've rebuffed us. You rebuffed us, when we tried to reach you via Richard Murray, via direct approaches, via Belgian journalists, via your Melexis board, via your son and his partner in Budapest.
When we were at Selhurst, people were drifting away. Our campaign then re-energised people reminded them of what Charlton means to them. Now, this last year, I too wondered if there was any point. It didn't feel like the Charlton I was so proud to be part of, any more. But now there is a new generation of fans who are not prepared to let it die. They want a conversation with you, that's all. To persuade you it isn't working for any of us. I don't even know these people. But I recognise them. They are showing the same spirit we did in 1990. They are intelligent, creative and determined. They've gained the respect of the football world and the media both here and in Belgium. Nothing about my club makes me proud to be a Charlton fan. But these people make me feel proud.
So I'm none of the things you think I am Roland. I am not coming back to the UK to live. I am winding down my working life. I'm just an old git now. But loads of old gits supported us in 1990, because we reminded them what it meant to be a Charlton fan. When these new guys ask for support, in numbers,when all else has failed, as we did back then, how could I fail to answer that call?
See you next week, Roland.51 - Sponsored links:
-
I'm Dave an idiot who has spent thousands watching my beloved club for 48 years ie since the age of six.
I have never worked for the club and look forward to meeting you next Saturday where I shall respectfully ask you to sell our great club to someone who is ambitious and wants to regularly watch their team play at the Valley .13 -
Unfortunately I have worked at Charlton (but not employed by them or paid by them) as I manned the Players Ambulance many times. But that stopped many years ago when the club paid a local private company instead of the London Ambulance Service.
So Roland, I am not connected to the club other than being a former season ticket holder in your time here.
The protest is taking part on my behalf and will represent myself, my two sons, my father and younger sister.
So please empty you head of these stupid lies. Look at the real reasons or at least look at the reasons that we are protesting and (even if you don't agree with them) try to answer them honestly and explain your plans.15 -
My name is Bob and I'm an alc.... (oops wrong forum).
I have supported the club since attending my first game as a six year old in 1963. I've given my services to the club but have never been paid, rather the other way around. I'm not a bitter ex-employee who was shown the door for being a naughty boy - but I am devastated at what you have done and continue to do to my beloved Charlton for which you and your sidekick should be ashamed.
Just piss-off.13 -
I had a similar idea Stig. Perhaps someone with a camera can record as many protesters as possible saying "I am -----, and I have never been employed by the club" or "I am ----- and I was employed by the club, I was not shown the door, I left of my own volition" as part of a future CARD video. Is there actually anyone at all who was dismissed for being rowdy or rebellious? The three people I know who have left, resigned.11
-
Hi Roland! I’m N01R4M – you may remember the message I sent you in a Christmas card last year. It was a bit longer than the recent Valentine’s Day message you must surely have seen in your local paper, but similarly motivated.
I was born in Charlton, and first visited The Valley in around 1965, standing on the East Terrace. My adult life has been lived away from S.E. England, so I have been a casual attender, rather than a season ticket holder, for 50+ years.
I have never been an employee of the club. I can be assertive, and tenacious, and at the moment I am a rebel with a cause – to reclaim my club from the hands of a regime which is not fit for purpose. Sadly, you won’t be able to judge my rowdiness in person in Sint Truiden – a long-awaited operation next week means I will not be fit to travel to Belgium and join the Unity March. But I will certainly be there in spirit with my fellow Addicks, calling for you to SELL Charlton and GO, taking your inept and incompetent regime with you.10 -
My grandfather was employed by the club for more than 23 years.
I'm quite sure if he was here today he would despise your ownership; your interference in transfer dealings, your lack of ambition, your treatment of former Charlton legend Chris Powell, your feeble attempt to market Charlton as place of entertainment for the uncommitted. And I'm quite sure he would have despised you duct tape wrapped shoes.
I have never been an employee of the club, but a family commitment means I won't be able to make the trip to Belgium.
But the family will be there in spirit.30 -
As most people know, I was dismissed in 2012. I have a large file of documents from the club which the then ownership was unwilling to put before an employment tribunal judge because they knew they would lose and look ridiculous in the process. Hence they settled my claim for unfair dismissal. Regardless of that, their arguments are very specific and would not fit that description at all. Indeed they go to some lengths to state the opposite case. There is no one else involved, to my knowledge, who has been dismissed by the club.Algarveaddick said:I had a similar idea Stig. Perhaps someone with a camera can record as many protesters as possible saying "I am -----, and I have never been employed by the club" or "I am ----- and I was employed by the club, I was not shown the door, I left of my own volition" as part of a future CARD video. Is there actually anyone at all who was dismissed for being rowdy or rebellious? The three people I know who have left, resigned.
Could there be anything more ridiculous than RD trying to argue the spivs' flawed case nearly five years later - or for that matter me harbouring a grudge from it against him? I suppose there could - the idea that the thousands of people involved in protests over the last 18 months are motivated or influenced by it in any way whatsoever.31 -
Dear Roland
My Names Will and I've been a Charlton fan for nearly all my life. My dad took to my first game vs Ipswich Town on a Tuesday night for a Coca-Coca Cup (League Cup) and I was hooked.
I have experienced highs of unbridled joy and the lowest of lows, but never gave up belief in my team. Until you came along and poisoned my beloved football club. I used to be proud of the club I supported and would defend them. Now there's no point as under your ownership we jump from one embarrassment to the next be it on the pitch or from the board room.
I have 2 children who want to follow Cafc and I'll encourage them to do this, but until you have gone I won't be bringing them to the Valley. Pbear has been to 6 Charlton away games in her short life, that's double (possibly triple) what you have done. Roops is half her age and already been to one, so he's catching up to you.
I won't be in Belgium on March 4th as I'm looking after my ill fiancé, but I, like thousands of others, will be there in spirit. (and my banners). You claim all the protesters are "bitter ex-employees" yet I have never worked for Cafc in my entire life. {...}
I'll end with this, Just sell our club, our famous football club. We don't really want you here. We want you gone, we hate Katrien Meire. We don't really want you here. Stop poisoning our club and sell.
Will10 -
Roland I'm Dave (now aged 70). Have followed the club since 1958.
Has a season ticket from 1986 until last season.
I will never go to the Valley whilst you own the club.
You have blatantly destroyed Charlton since your arrival.
Please sell up so that an old man can go and enjoy his football again.
You have never employed me or indeed have Charlton.
We were warned of you by the Standard Liege supporters.
If only the 'Spivs' had carried on or sold to someone else!
I am not a hothead just a Charlton fan!¬8 -
Roland- I have supported Charlton since 1975, through thick and thin, at Selhurst, through several relegations without losing the faith. I have also avidly followed the U-18's until recently, when it became clear that the Academy was a means to financing your flawed plan. It appears that promising youngsters see first-team football as a stepping-stone to a better club now.
I have never ever worked for Charlton. I did not renew my S/T this season, and will not until you sell up for the good of our club.6
