Results tagged “Charlton Athletic”
West Ham face a tough start to the new Premier League season after they were given a trip to Aston Villa on the opening day.
The Irons will travel to Villa Park on August 14 to face a team with Champions League ambitions. The Hammers then face their bogey team, Bolton, at home on August 28.
Millwall and Charlton have both been handed away ties in the draw for the first round of the Carling Cup.
The newly-promoted Lions face a trip to Wycombe Wanderers, and will fancy their chances of beating a side relegated from League One last season.
While Fabio Capello agonises over his final World Cup selection football commentator John Motson has no doubt who should be in the England side when they start their campaign on June 12.
Motson wants Capello to field his strongest side against the USA to ensure a better performance than the one against Mexico at Wembley last Monday.
Legendary football commentator John Motson will be close to where it all started for him when he visits Canary Wharf today.
The master of the microphone saw his first ever football match at The Valley in 1952, a 1-1 draw between Charlton and Chelsea. The experience kindled his love of the game that became his life.
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.
