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It won't be Chris Powell. He has gone to Derby to be Nigel Pearson's assistant. Not sure where that leaves Alex Dyer.

Only through a misunderstanding. KM asked RD who he wanted for Chief Scout. RD's mind was on other things and he said "I want head".

When I was a kid, my friend's dad used to pass our house every Saturday and Sunday, and on many light evenings, on his way to his allotment. My mother always loudly compared him favorably to my father, who preferred to go dog racing, or sit on his arse reading the Greyhound Express. This...

"Like painting the Forth Bridge' has been a common saying for the seventy-plus years of my life, and probably a lot longer than that. It was well-established long before the new road bridge was constructed in 1964. Why would a proud Scot amend the saying to "Forth Road Bridge"? Is there some...

Thanks Billy. Vol and others who have digs at Ahearne-Grant ignore the fact he is still an under-18 and has plenty of time to improve his game.

A load of cobblers!

The BBC website states that Charlton are the only club in the top four tiers not to have been awarded a penalty this season. Makes sense when you consider we have probably been fewest times in threatening positions in the opponents' penalty area. Who is our penalty taker if Jackson is not playing?

He was not Russian, but Azeri. If he was Russian then Robert Burns was English.

You guys are deluded. Leaving the EU means that there will be no restrictions on English clubs signing players from where they can get best value for money, namely Africa and Latin America. Clubs in many Continental countries already do this, as their regulations are slacker. English clubs then...

I have to admit he was poor. Maybe the captaincy affected him. Not the only one though.

This. England managers are entirely at the mercy of the clubs, which is the main reason we never achieve anything. With the season run-in and tens (for some clubs hundreds) of millions at stake, there will have been an understanding not to play anyone for two whole matches in the friendlies...

From BBC report on Ukraine 1 Wales 0: Coleman may have been disappointed by the failure of fringe players such as ... Simon Church to make the most of [his] opportunities. This was [his] last chance to impress boss Chris Coleman before he names his squad for the summer finals in France. A...

Watched the England u21s draw 1-1 with Switzerland. England dominated but conceded a soft goal through complacency. I noticed the Swiss team did not contain one player with a "Swiss" surname (that is, German, French, or Italian). They were all of African, Spanish/Portuguese, or East European...

Interesting factual read, although of little application to Charlton for the foreseeable future: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gametheory/2016/03/surviving-drop

On the other hand, he had very sound views on Sheffield firemen.