Maybe he never really had an ambition to own an English football club, but instead saw an opportunity to create a platform for his ego.
Credit for defeating ESI, no credit for anything else.
Please put it into the archive (next to the Farage stickers ?)
It was COVID, we were absolutely leaking money and were owned by crooks. We were an absolute mess. He has to get massive credit for saving the club. His ego and strange ideas meant he was destined to fail but he passed us on to better owners. I find it a bit of a shame the abuse he gets tbh. Would always be welcome back for me.
Maybe he never really had an ambition to own an English football club, but instead saw an opportunity to create a platform for his ego.
Credit for defeating ESI, no credit for anything else.
Please put it into the archive (next to the Farage stickers ?)
It was COVID, we were absolutely leaking money and were owned by crooks. We were an absolute mess. He has to get massive credit for saving the club. His ego and strange ideas meant he was destined to fail but he passed us on to better owners. I find it a bit of a shame the abuse he gets tbh. Would always be welcome back for me.
I’m not sure many that worked for the club during his tenure would offer such a welcome.
For all his faults and aberrations, where would we be if Tommy had not unravelled all the issues with ESI. Cost him a lot of money for a vanity project.
For all his faults and abberations, where would we be if Tommy had not unravelled all the issues with ESI. Cost him a lot of money for a vanity project.
For all his faults and abberations, where would we be if Tommy had not unravelled all the issues with ESI. Cost him a lot of money for a vanity project.
£19m was TS's own figure of his losses.
Undoubtedly saved us from the ESI crooks but then refused to listen to anyone, hired his own incompetent family while firing good Charlton people.
Much prefer the low profile being kept by our current owners.
1950s OS map / current Open Street map from National Library of Scotland collection here.
Google Satellite View (here) doesn't show any obvious traces.
Along from the Stadium on the left hand side towards Shooter hill road was an Army camp for women in the days before they were integrated with the male soldiers. About where the buses park now.
Not really a new item but something that was donated a while ago by the family of John Rooke that we were looking at again recently.
Scrapbooks like these are an invaluable source of information and photos but unusually John's aren't in chronoligical order or dated so we have, we think, a 1965 Valley fire, a 1955 thrashing of Man City and an as yet undated reserve team triumph on the same page.
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Maybe he never really had an ambition to own an English football club, but instead saw an opportunity to create a platform for his ego.
Credit for defeating ESI, no credit for anything else.
Please put it into the archive (next to the Farage stickers
It was COVID, we were absolutely leaking money and were owned by crooks. We were an absolute mess. He has to get massive credit for saving the club. His ego and strange ideas meant he was destined to fail but he passed us on to better owners. I find it a bit of a shame the abuse he gets tbh. Would always be welcome back for me.
edit: except perhaps Tony.
Undoubtedly saved us from the ESI crooks but then refused to listen to anyone, hired his own incompetent family while firing good Charlton people.
Much prefer the low profile being kept by our current owners.
Scrapbooks like these are an invaluable source of information and photos but unusually John's aren't in chronoligical order or dated so we have, we think, a 1965 Valley fire, a 1955 thrashing of Man City and an as yet undated reserve team triumph on the same page.
Early 90s but undated.