I assume the people filming and taking photographs from the stairs to the left of the protest after the game on Saturday were club employees. I find this really insulting.
Somewhere in my house I've got an old supplement from a Sunday newspaper. I think it goes back to our first taste of the Premiership a few months after Wembley and promotion. The main article in the supplement was about Charlton and they called us The Supporters' Club. The article talked about how unique we were; a Premiership club where everyone from the directors to the catering people and shop staff were fans and even the head groundsman was a popular ex-player. The manager and the directors had a close working relationship and everyone was pulling in the same direction.
Now we are generating publicity for the opposite reason. Results have been terrible and managers come and go every few months. The club is owned and managed by people who care nothing for its' history, traditions or identity and the CEO obviously doesn't understand football or even know what a supporter is. KM would probably like to rename us as The Customers' Club.
Do they think that we are now like the enemy at the gates, so menacing that we need to be spied on and recorded? I wonder what they hope to achieve by filming / photographing. Do they intend to identify people and ban them? Hopefully not for their sake or they will have even fewer 'customers'.
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I thought they were press at first but the stewards had finished their sweep so could only have been staff to still be in that part of the ground.
Found them in a photo i took.
Below is the photo and zoomed in crop
In any case if you go on a demo these days you'll be filmed anywhere.
As Ibsen said "when you fight for justice don't wear your best trousers"
So, I read nothing much into it really. It makes sense for the proceedings to have been filmed in the (unlikely, I know) event that any criminal damage to property or vehicles happened.
I'm so proud of the 99.9%
I'm so proud that so many people found their voice.
(even thou i lost mine on Saturday Evening; for a good cause)
I'm so Proud that CAFC supporters are prepared to die on their soapboxes,
And not live on their knees.
I know it's only football, but in so many countries around the world, still in 2016,
People of all ages would be locked up and beaten for finding their voice.
Democracy rules OK.
That says the video was put up at 5:11.
If memory serves me correctly the guys filming us in blue didn't get there until about twenty to six.
Just one more question.
Surely you understand they may have taken the footage for personal reasons, maybe so they could share it with their mates/family?Note to self read the detail 'Stairs'
Maybe the club wanted to ensure it ramained peaceful, and wanted good footage to feed back to Roland so he can see the need for further funding/sale of the club?
Bit odd to assume it's for the worst possible reason still. But the Valley is an odd place these days.