Fleet St is watching

I was on the tube yesterday, and happened to sit down next to a football correspondent from a major Fleet St national newspaper. I took the opportunity to introduce myself, and we quickly fell into conversation about the goings on at Charlton, and more particularly the transfer moves and neutering of the manager post Duchatelet.

I took the opportunity of this excellent 15 min chat (the Victoria line was terrible yesterday) to assure our writer friend that RD was the worst thing to happen to English football since Graham Taylor and "do I not like that".

One thing that pleasantly surprised me was that the said journo reassured me that the "goings on" at Charlton are very much on Fleet St's "radar" at present.

His exact words were "we are all watching what is happening". I assume football journos talk ?

Watch this space I reckon

 

I wonder how near we are to being called a "crisis club", or "Club in crisis"? It seems the press don't have moles inside The Valley any more. Why could that be?

 

It is reassuring if journos are keeping an eye on us.

 

There must be moles under our pitch, though...

Anyway, I didn't think there were any newspaper offices in Fleet Street nowadays. The last serious publisher to remain there was that of the Beano.

 

Yes it is, but I prefer things kept inhouse rather than when certain people would leak at the drop of a hat.

 

You know when things are really bad when the story is run with the club badge having a crack through the middle, Leeds have got one today.

 

The city of Leeds is one giant crack.

 

I was just with a client who is a massive Leeds fan - they are none the wiser as to whats going on. He thought that the takeover was done until I showed him the story on todays website about a new bid coming in.

Conclusion - we are both in the brown as it stands. Though they are in no threat of relegation.

 

No, I assume you refer to the comic, The Daily Mail which left some years ago now

 

Thanks

 

I propose we pump the piss that is being poured into all our pockets directly into the newly discovered 'Mole infestations' underneath the pitch !

 

Amazing,
I walked down Fleet Street on the way to work this morning (the Tube being out courtesy of a Millwall fan) and kept looking around to see who it was that was watching. Then I realised that Fleet Street is now the den of major financial houses such as Goldman Sachs and law firms who specialise in major takeovers and realised that they must have left their glasses at home this morning because they sure as hell weren't looking