[Amelia Chaffinch]

 

The Addicks v The Terriers

Saturday 28th February 2015

3 PM

at The Valley

Charlton played at The Valley from 1919, apart from one year in the 20s when they played in Catford, until 1985 when they had to leave due to ground restrictions following the Bradford fire. They ground-shared with Crystal Palace from then on until 1992 when they returned to a reconstructed Valley.

The Valley in the 80s

Of our League meetings, Charlton have 34 wins to our 29 and 18 draws. We took the lead in our last match in August with a goal from Nahki Wells only for Igor Vetokele to equalise in the 90th minute.   Also, Murray Wallace was sent off that day.

The only celebrity fan I can find is Jim Davidson. 

Gemma Gibbons was born in Charlton who you may remember as someone we followed the fortunes of in the Olympics. She competes in Judo. She would make a much more respectable celebrity fan but can't find any leanings that way!

That's our feisty Brit on the left

Charlton's former manager (and I believe the football league's longest running manager at the time) was our own Chris Powell. Our last meeting was just before he was appointed Town manager. Hopefully he will have something to prove to the owners. Charlton is managed by Guy Luzon these days, perhaps a more bizarre appointment than David Hockaday was at Leeds???!! 

Anyway, as you'll have gathered, this is an emergency thread due to lack of interest. 

I trust you will find it as uninteresting as you did my last one.   

Hence the lack of effort on my part.