Off Topic How Are You Celebrating Brexit Day ?

Staggering comment here from a Senior Football reporter ex Fleet St.
Sums up what's wrong with football

 

Maybe he means paying £6 for a hot dog.

 

Pleased for Brighton and their fans, also Chris Hughton. Pity Big Sam has sorted Palace out, it would have been good to see them and Brighton change places.

 

Yeah, congratulations to Brighton - their fans definitely deserve some good times.

As for big Sam - it was always going to happen.

 

Thoroughly nice guy Chris Hughton, and that's a good job he has done at 4 different clubs now.

I hope the Brighton chairman repays him with loyalty next season, realistically they are going to struggle.

Premier League away fans are in for a surprise on their first visit to the Amex.

 

Alcorcon made a minor headline in Marca, probably the leading Spanish sports newspaper, for the sort of reasons most Charlton fans can identify with. I'm not going to translate the whole article, but Roland Duchatalet gets a passing mention.
Basically, they have now spent four matches in relegation places and the article goes on to mention the 'ten keys to their critical situation'. They were near the play offs last season, but they lost various key players, and the summer signings were not up to scratch (sound familiar?) in many cases. Their new manager, who spent a previous year jobless after being sacked by a Chinese club, acheved neither results nor decent football, and was sacked after a nine match winless run saw them drift into relegation. They failed to sign a striker in the Winter window, the team were exhausted by a good cup run (no semblance of us :-( ), they sold off some of their most faithful players, they can't buy a win away from home, and even their second eleven and youth teams are in relegation battles. Finally, point ten mentions owner Roland Duchatalet and president Ignacio Legido , have taken some unpopular decisions that a large sector of the fan bae disliked, such as changing the club badge last summer, and renewing the contract of coach Julio Vazquez until summer 2019 despite there being no grounds for doing so, and relegation by no means averted.
In the comments column, one poster says Marca have finally hit the nail on the head, especially with the points referring to the sale of favourite players (the Alcorcon versión of Stevens and Kermo ?) by a bunch of owners who live in the world of marketing and have no clue about the club and it's history.
Basically, I cannot for the life of me see why Roland remains involved in football - he is a serial failure. loses money hand over fist, and exhibits little or no interest in the clubs he owns. This guy is a real problem, and the sooner he sells Charlton the better for us (I couldn't give a flying f**k if a sale is beneficial for him, he needs to lose as much money as posible for what he has willfully done to us.

 

Neil Ruddock has told a story about Pards - apparently when he went to West Ham, he walked in to the changing room and said ''you had Ronnie and Reggie, and now you've got me''

 

Sad news about Ehiogu - good defender!

RIP

 

Also by all accounts a very good man

RIP Ugo

Condolences to his family

 

Cryptic comment from @DickPlumb on another site-

"I think Phillips wants to leave"

Dicky ?

 

Well connected Dr Kish
http://www.cafcpicks.com/cgi-bin/drkish/display.pl?month=201704&date=20170421&time=1712

has said that we are after two new keepers over the summer so it sounds as if the relationship between Dillon and Gobinson is not good .... Dillon may have been upset that he was dropped as soon as Rudd was fit again rather than Rudd having to earn his recall?

 

Clearly he is more highly rated else where. Pity, I don't agree with KR.

 

I haven't read what Ketts has said. Phillips wanted to stay at Cheltenham and was not happy to be brought back. He is also on a very small salary which he is not happy about. He is a very good goalkeeper and I feel he has been treated shabbily. I would be quite happy to have him as first choice but can see him moving on.

 

David Martin is leaving MK Dons at the end of the season...

 

SSN reporting that West Ham and Newcastle are being raided by the police.

 

Police are believed (so they claim) to be on the verge of a breakthrough on Madeleine McCann, and are pursuing a serious line of enquiry ?

Just another ruse to extend their overtime budget ?

Kate & Gerry have not another book coming out ?

Or genuine - thoughts on this circus ?

 

They know far more than they are letting on, methinks.

One of my staff lives in Shoreham, and she has told me that there is a 'have you seen maddie' poster on the local flower shop window

 

Get the f,,,,g police out there catching burglars & real criminals

 

Too busy wasting their time on complaints from charlton fans having screen shots of fellow CAFC fans being "mean".

 

Did Gerry & Kate really do it ?