New Charlton book - The Valiant 1000 part 1

SporadicAddick

1 - 500 c. 70 years
500 - 1,000 c. 30 years.

Blackheathen

Wow.  I was given a Valiant 1000 last night - a sort of late Fathers Day celebration - and it’s very difficult to put down.  It is highly readable, comprehensive statistics of course but much much more than that with player descriptions and highlights and what happened to them before and after Charlton.

Just poking around at this stage.  First player I opened up at was Nicky Bailey. - sadly and most unfairly his reputation was tarnished by that missed Swindon Town penalty. The Nicky Bailey entry finishes “despite his parents having run a fruit and vegetable stall, he claimed to have never eaten a salad or vegetable in his life, preferring his regular fare of nine tasty chicken nuggets from McDonalds before every game”.

The book concludes with Hall of Fame, Player of the Year and other notable awards.  Most pleasing though was a warm accolade for our Jean - This lovely lady gives so much of her time and energy to her beloved Charlton Athletic and is the first person to run to the assistance of anyone in need from within the Charlton Family.

guinnessaddick

SporadicAddick said:

1 - 500 c. 70 years
500 - 1,000 c. 30 years.

1001-1500 probably about 15 years are that going rate.

Henry Irving

NOT available in the Castore shop

Available in the Museum shop

LenGlover

Bought this from the Museum a few weeks back and can thoroughly recommend it. Looking forward to the next two volumes.

Blackheathen

Does anyone happen to know if Volume 2 is available yet please?  If not, when’s it due.

Fanny Fanackapan

Likely being worked on as we speak....

@killerjerrylee probably burning the midnight oil again....and again ad infinitum. 

Blackheathen

Thanks Fanny.  It’s worth waiting for.

Henry Irving

Volume 1 on sale in the museum where you will also find the  author and can ask him for an update.

Lots of other Charlton books on sale too.

killerjerrylee

Blackheathen said:

Does anyone happen to know if Volume 2 is available yet please?  If not, when’s it due.

Thanks for the interest. Volume 2 is at an advanced stage and like Volume 1 will contain 333 biogs of Charlton players. It is a completely mad project but very enjoyable, although time confusing to research. So far 281 have been completed so there are 52 more to do. Not sure when it will be ready, but sometime the other side of Christmas.

Ross

Query - as you've already done A-H in volume 1, and I'm assuming I-Z in volume 2, any future numbers will potentially feature those with surnames beginning with letters in volume 1. Will a volume 3 just go for new numbers regardless of surname? 

seth plum

Available on Amazon for £30.

killerjerrylee

Ross said:

Query - as you've already done A-H in volume 1, and I'm assuming I-Z in volume 2, any future numbers will potentially feature those with surnames beginning with letters in volume 1. Will a volume 3 just go for new numbers regardless of surname? 

No. Volume 2 will start with the (at the moment) seven who have played for the first team but would otherwise have featured in Volume 1, namely Egbo, Dench, Asiimwe, Anderson, Edun, Camara and C Campbell. It will then continue alphabetically from where the first book ended. At present that will therefore take us from  Walker Hampson to Cyril Pearce. We will then have covered 666 players and Volume 3 will take us up to 1000. Obviously, every new player who we sign from A to O means that one of the P's gets moved back into Volume 3. They contain a lot of information about each player so it cannot be done in only two books.