64. Following his infamous outburst, Brian Cole was marched to the centre of the pitch after the match and stood in front of the assembled staff and players. His announcer's microphone and clipboard were ceremonially taken from him and broken in two. Cole was then banished to Devil's Island or the East Stand as it is known locally.
65. When Brian Cole was banished to the east stand it took 4 whole weeks to reinforce the stand and Charlton had to re apply for a safety certificate....
67. Johnny Jackson doesn't train on thursdays. He is embroiled in a court battle with his brothers and sisters in america, on who should get custody of a recently orphaned chimp called bubbles.
Thursdays are Johnnies days for access.
68. Cleaning staff at the club during the period Curbishley was in charge were constantly amazed at the amount of toilet roll the the first team players used. It turned out Alan was stealing rolls on a regular basis as he was using them to construct a life sized replica of the leaning tower of pisa.
69. When Charlton played at Selhurst park , Lennie Lawrence stummbled upon the original plans for the main stand. he discovered that there was a major design fault - The seats were facing the pitch.
71. In 1979, following a detailed analysis by club statistician Colin Cameron, it was noticed that Colin Powell's reach (whilst standing on a flat surface, from the floor to the tips of his fingers, with his hands were outstretched vertically) is exactly 96 inches. It was decided at that time, in order to save the cost of expensive measuring devices, that Powell would be used to determine the height of the goals at The Valley and the training ground. Powell was then fast-tracked into a groundsman's position.
Subsequently, further measurements have been taken and proven that Powell has a stride of exactly 36 inches (thus avoiding the need to measure any distances on the pitch) and a lung capacity of between 8.5 and 15.6 psi at sea level (meaning he can blow up footballs unaided).
72. Rob Elliott believes that when he wears his cap back to front he becomes invisible. The rest of the squad play up to it and pretend to look amazed when their shots at an 'empty' goal get miraculously saved.
81. Andy Jones was released from Charlton because he believed that the rest of his team mates were reptilian . This only came about after a camping holiday in Bogota with David Ike.
Jose Semedo will eat nothing but the Portuguese national dish bacalhau (salted cod) from his home village. His brother Jorge brings it every fortnight but he refuses to fly and can only bring as much as he can carry on the back of his motorbike. Jose tried traditional English cod and chips once but he suffered an allergic reaction and thought he was a chicken.
86. Ex youth team player Jlloyd Samuel was supposed to be named Floyd Samuel after Floyd Road. The mistake on his birth certificate wasn't noticed until a couple of years later, and his parents decided not to change it.
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Thursdays are Johnnies days for access.
Subsequently, further measurements have been taken and proven that Powell has a stride of exactly 36 inches (thus avoiding the need to measure any distances on the pitch) and a lung capacity of between 8.5 and 15.6 psi at sea level (meaning he can blow up footballs unaided).
It's come to light that he also turned down Southampton as they couldn't match his wage demands of 10 bottles of factor 75 suncream every week.
This is due to the current demands of Pardew, who gets 10 bottles of tanning lotion per week instead
Several key players were drowned but it was all hushed up...