The Charlton Athletic Gazette
Squad7 Mar 2033
David Davis damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match1 Mar 2033
A hiding for Charlton Athletic
Beaten 0‑3 by Middlesbrough, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad7 Mar 2033
A one-man rearguard from Mees Bakker
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad7 Mar 2033
Tobías Mendoza breaks a bone — 31 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout7 Mar 2033
Tommy Dobson-Ventura: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Charlton Athletic have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market7 Mar 2033
Amr El Gazar hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Charlton Athletic can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Mar 2033
Freddie Lane is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Charlton Athletic is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings7 Mar 2033
Jack Shorrock was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Mar 2033
Words at Charlton Athletic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Golding is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Vítor Conceição
- The dugout Bernard Eide gets it from the manager
- Boardroom Doors closed at Charlton Athletic