Will Mannion

Goalkeeper - Charlton Athletic
12 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Will Mannion

15 Edition

The Charlton Athletic Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Charlton Athletic out

Out, 0‑3 to Brentford, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

Charlton Athletic are in real trouble now

Position 22, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

The terraces

Charlton Athletic are taken apart by Brentford — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Player ratings

Lloyd Jones pops up at the right end — 7.83

7.83, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Kai Enslin has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Charlton Athletic they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Charlie Kelman signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Charlie Kelman and Charlton Athletic agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Charlton Athletic

Luke Chambers was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Will Mannion

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Charlton Athletic caught on 90 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Sheffield Wednesday scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Charlton Athletic Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

Charlton Athletic supporters have found a favourite in Tyreece Campbell

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Tyreece Campbell has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sonny Carey

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sonny Carey, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Charlton Athletic against Stoke City

0‑2 to Stoke City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

Charlton Athletic find a way past Watford

Watford made Charlton Athletic work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Luke Berry falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Will Mannion lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Player ratings

Kortney Hause was the difference for Charlton Athletic

Marked 7.70. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Jack Mitchell left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Luke Chambers is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Luke Chambers has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief