Results tagged “Charlton Athletic”
There were more points dropped at home as nervy Charlton's bid for automatic promotion starts to run out of steam.
The Addicks, who lost 1-0 at The Valley against Leyton Orient last Monday, saw another lowly League One side leave with a result as they were held by Tranmere.
Kyel Reid will be in the squad for Charlton when they meet Tranmere Rovers tomorrow.
The former West Ham winger joined the Addicks on loan from Sheffield United this week and is in contention as Charlton look to bounce back straight away from Monday's shock home defeat by Leyton Orient.
It's been another exciting sporting year and plenty of big names have appeared in the pages of The Wharf, including West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola, a quartet of England cricket captains and two heroes of the 1966 World Cup win.
We look back at what's been making the headlines locally and nationally over the last 12 months.
It might be the holiday season for most of us but for footballers it's one of the busiest times of the year.
West Ham have a potentially crucial sequence of matches over the festive season, starting with the visit of rock-bottom Portsmouth to Upton Park on Boxing Day. Kick off is at 1pm.
Now doesn't that feel better?
After a recent run which included two cup exits and an away defeat to struggling Carlisle, Charlton battered promotion rivals MK Dons to close the gap on pace-setters Leeds to four points.
Charlton are having one of those months.
The sort of bad-luck month in which you accidentally lock your keys in the car with the handbrake off at the top of a San Francisco street, forcing you to chase the vehicle a mile down a slope into a World Porcelain Convention attended entirely by armed mobsters.
Charlton endured their second cup exit in three days when they crashed out of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy against Southampton.
Last night's 2-1 defeat at St Mary's Stadium follows Sunday's FA Cup first round humiliation at Northwich Victoria.
If Charlton punch their ticket for the Championship at the end of the season, embarrassments like this will whisper away into the back of the mind.
Of course, now they've got all the time in the world to think about the league, unless they're planning on placating their fans with the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
Is it really FA cup time already?
Well, not if you're currently nibbling on your Premier League prawn sandwiches at the Emirates Stadium, but it's been a few years since Charlton stomped around in that division.
Charlton were thankful for Carlisle's Graham Kavanagh at half-time - but they would have preferred not to have seen him come out of the tunnel after the interval.
The player-coach tripped Deon Burton to allow the Addicks to level from the spot in first-half injury time, but responded with two long-range belters in the second to consign the away team to defeat.
The long road to Wembley gets underway for Millwall with a home tie against non-league AFC Wimbledon.
The Lions, Cup finalists in 2004, had to wait until last night to see who they would face in the first round and it was the Dons who won through, beating Crawley 3-1.
Charlton battled the elements, the pitch and a side who have lost only once at home this season, to win a deserved point against Gillingham on Saturday, writes Rob Virtue.
The sell-out away crowd of 2,304 probably thought they could have had more after taking the lead with 10 minutes to go thanks to a bizarre own goal.
High-flying Charlton will be hoping to avoid having their wings clipped when they face Gillingham in tomorrow's "Kent derby".
The Addicks, currently second in League One, could leap-frog table-toppers Leeds if they win and the Yorkshire side lose at Millwall.
It's League One's very own Super Saturday tomorrow, as two mighty promotion challengers bear down on each other at Elland Road.
It's a chance for a pace-setter to emerge, for Leeds to shake off the annoyance of Carlisle's midweek equaliser, and for Charlton to exorcise the demons that saw them explode at Colchester like a rat in a microwave.
Charlton stayed top of League One with a convincing 2-0 win over Brentford on Saturday and secured the future of their brightest young star as well.
Goals from Deon Burton and Lloyd Sam ensured the Addicks maintained their 100 per cent start in the league, while 17-year-old midfielder Jonjo Shelvey signed a contract extension.
Charlton look to extend their 100 per cent start to their League One campaign with a win against Brentford at The Valley tomorrow.
The Addicks have had their best ever start to the season with five wins out of five but face a tricky task against the Bees.
Charlton overcome their first real setback of the season to record their third straight win of the season.
A header from Tamkia Mkandawire gave Leyton Orient the lead in a physical and competitive first-half at Brisbane Road.
Christian Dailly and Miguel Llera both marked their first league appearances for Charlton with goals to set the Addicks on the way to a nervy 3-2 victory at The Valley on Saturday.
The centre-backs opened and closed the scoring for the home side, with new skipper Nicky Bailey adding the second, to give fans optimism for the long season ahead.
Charlton Athletic begin their first campaign in English football's third tier for 27 years and manager Phil Parkinson says his team are ready for the challenge.
The Addicks entertain Wycombe at The Valley tomorrow having endured a difficult close-season overshadowed by ongoing takeover rumours.
West Ham will play Wolverhampton Wanderers in their first game next season.
The Irons travel to Molineux on August 15 in what will be a tough opening fixture against newly promoted Wolves. Three days later the Hammers entertain Aston Villa at Upton Park, followed by Spurs at home on August 22.
