Dear potential new owners, 20,000 wonderful, loyal salt-of-the-Earth Charlton supporters are excitedly preparing to make their way to the Valley this evening to get behind Bow and the lads as they take on the exciting Swansea Academy all-stars in the EFL Checkatade Trophy this evening. Many fans are even hoping (as they always do) to catch a glimpse of beloved owner Roland Duchatelet, if his relentless international business schedule will allow him to fly across the Channel to in SE7 himself, where a seat of honour among the fans in the famous 'covered end' is always reserved for him. This magnificent competition is renowned for football of the highest quality, and only this season was witness to Charlton Athletic's all time greatest first team victory. In decades to come those who were there will be telling their great grandchildren about the legendary demolition of Stevenage Town; an epic confrontation that will live forever in the annuls of football. Everybody will be clapping their clappers and cheering on their heroes tonight as a sea of red and white bobble hats and scarves brings the Valley to glorious life, raising the roof when the goals go raining in. It will be a night never to be forgotten as the Mighty Addicks take another giant step towards climbing those famous old Wembley steps and raising the gleaming Checkatrade Trophy high into the air. COYR!
^^^^^^^^^ A heartfelt plea Lardi You should have added one sentence though - about no more time wasters.
19,997 loyal salt of the earth fans, plus one welcher, one weirdo in shorts, and a flip flopping raff.
What a wonderful friendly Club CAFC really is. Everybody gets on so well it's not only first name terms all round from the board room to the boiler room, it's nickname terms. In the finest tradition of working class grass roots honest-to-goodness footy camaraderie, every cherished member of the Charlton familee is known by a nickname ending in -o or -zza Roland Duchatelet is effecionately known as Rozza Our ex-CEO Katrien Meire (bless her) was Kazza (she'll always be the CEO of my heart ) Richard Murray is of course universally known as Muzza Tony Keohane ... Tozza (mind your pronounciation there boys, ladies present!) Lee Bowyer is of course Bow ... with a silent W (as in Bo Selecta) JJ is Jacko (obviously) Karl Robinson was always Gobbo Even Karel Fraeye loved his nickname of Frayo (as in the famous terrace chant "Boom Boom Boom, let me hear you say Frayo - Frayo!") Lyle Taylor answers to Tazza Karlan Grant is Grazza Naby Sarr is Nazza etc... Even the grandson of Charlton's most illustrious manager ever loves to join in the banter, and goes by the handle Jizza
If Scotland were to eventually vote for independence, there would obviously have to be a hard boarder north of Carlisle... so why not a hard boarder between North and the Republic of Ireland? A nuisance yes but why such a massive problem? The Good Friday Agreement is an agreement not a contract... it can be changed.
When you remember how long it took to put the Good Friday Agreement together it's not so easy. It's a unique situation really. Feelings run very high on both sides, otherwise we'd have a united Ireland. Their rugby team isn't too shabby.
A hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic is the symbolic division of the Island once again. The undoing of everything achieved since the Good Friday agreement. An unstoppable slide back towards the troubles. Proof yet again that the lives of common people don't matter as much to most of the ruling classes as their own petty political ambitions.
To go back to the original title of the thread, if anyone is serious about buying us, as de Turkey claims, please do it now before roland sells Bauer, Aribo and whoever else can fetch a bob or two.
