Just can’t get my head around being interested at the moment.
For example, Im 1.2k posts behind the bonkers thread, 400 behind the season ending early etc.
Not or sure whether it’s work or the virus backdrop, but since this has all escalated and knowing there’s no football in the next few months, I’ve temporarily lost all interest to even bother reading about it.
am I alone in this or have others been experiencing the same?
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It's a scandal what some have been allowed to get away with, just a farce.
If the club or owners can't control that and there has been no repercussions there never will.
For all that though, Charlton Life is still wonderful, but that's about the sense of community and nothing to do with football at the moment.
fully expect this season to be declared null and void
That said, I'm still enjoying Peter Crouch's podcast and the MOTD podcasts are entertaining.
Totally this. After losing Seb last week and hearing of people I know in real difficulty health wise and others who face a tough time financially in the coming months it has really hit home.
Whilst I miss football and Charlton, I'm not anywhere near as interested about it as I usually would be.
I think we have to stay connected to the club and the detail of what's going on as best we can, more than ever really, or we will lose it before we have realised whatever it is we could do to influence the outcomes. That wouldnt include spouted nutjob conspiracy theories but sticking with the facts and trying to back the right horse at the right time (at the very least!), using the media, and getting in the ear of the EFL when it matters.
Should be good for you though boss, in the current climate people are relying on their IT systems even more, it’s great the work that you’re doing keeping people connected 👍🏻
I tried watching the MOTD thing they've been putting on but finding it hard to focus on much tbh.
The irony is of course, now that I have all this spare time, I am forbidden to get out and about and enjoy it .. me and millions of others.
Puzzles, games, books, TV, Dvds, gardening, exercising as much as possible, keeping more in touch with family and friends are my new fixations .. thing is, I have doubts if football and other sport will ever again hold the same fascination for me after this is all done.
Shankley's maxim has been completely disproved by the virus.
I'm zoned out of the ownership thread, I'm just letting that play itself out. It is what it is...
I am working 5 x days a week from home now in an effort to help the company I "consult" for survive, however I am not sure how long that will last if they scale back to save money. Plus my wife has been sent the "claim pack" for her loss of business insurance and it looks like you need a masters degree in all sorts of things to understand it so that will keep us occupied for a week or two.
Football....nah.
My son has been hitting 300-400 cricket balls a week for the last 6 months to improve himself and in preparation for the new cricket season from over 50 sessions in that time - and the realisation that he might not play a single game this season is a massive disappointment. But it is one that he understands because he is not unique in this respect.
In normal circumstances, sport can be a distraction from day to day issues. But when those issues become bigger and there are no distractions, there is no escape from them for some. That is really sad and also the very reason we need to all pull together.
This has been further amplified by having lost Les Turner and now Seb in the last month, and further back Betty Hutchins in June. 3 absolute amazing human beings who epitomised absolutely everything that is good about Charlton and what the club stands for, having passed away in giving their lives for the club, and we have a bunch of immoral crooks and scheisters presiding over the club that meant so much too them.
It's despicable in my opinion. Lives are going to be lost all over the globe, good people are going through hell at the moment, key workers are risking their lives, and you have this sideshow playing out over ownership of our great, special club that has given us so much and contributed immensely to the community of south east London.
The names and legends that have made everything good about this club over the years, from Jimmy Seed, Sam Bartram, Keith Peacock, Roger Alwen, The Valley Party, The Supporters Trust, the Community Trust, Curbs, Mendonca, Steve Brown, Robinson, Chris Powell, Johnnie Jackson, Lee Bowyer through to the likes of Chris Parkes and Tracey Leaburn, all being undermined by some spivs and criminals who are rinsing what fledgling funds remain from our central pot of EFL money for this season, and whatever other personal gains they are trying to make is quite pathetic and sad.
I already hope that this virus may do some good when we come out the other side of it as a race and how we might think and we might act, but whether or not we will have the football club we know of to return too is questionable. As it stands, with the current immoral and unethical bunch of bottom feed that have attached themselves to the club, I wouldn't mind starting again as and AFC and building a club built on the memory of the likes of Les, Betty and Seb, and all the names I mention above, as opposed to some incarnation of what we have now and the current bunch of tossers we have now and the types we have had running the club in the last few years.
The season may well start in August.............2020.
Really not fussed with it at all at the moment.