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This year's official Top 100 Charlton Christmas book list

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  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,849
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Fraye - the true story of how wide the net was cast for the interim coach.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    Canapé Si Bon - en Prenant le Siège Haut
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,089
    Thought the Bible would be on that list. It's what they swear on ain't it?
  • Sensei
    Sensei Posts: 233
    A Christmas Karel - One man's shock that nobody else had nabbed the Dicken's classic
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,411
    Groundhog Day the book,atale of amanager that was unable to leave Charlton (fiction).
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,906
    A man for all seasons - a blockbuster from Belgium following Rolands quest to appoint a different manager for each of Summer, Autumn, winter and spring.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,098
    Goodbye Mr Chips: A greedy Charlton fan says goodbye to a portion in just one mouthful.

    Hunger Games: A distopian nightmare of food vouchers, time limits, outsourced caterers and and general mis-management.

    The Valley of Fear: Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson are summonsed to a country house where they investigate the attempted murder of a football club.

    Freakonomics: A rogue economist uncovers the freaky economic reasoning behind Duchetelet's network.

    Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The story of one young striker's donut addiction and his enforced exile to Cardiff.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,290
    Sword of Honour Trilogy - Evelyn Waugh.

  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,758
    Woman in Black and White ......Diary of under cover Newcastle fanatic, planted in the Valley of the Reds by Anton Dec in a cunning plan to bankrupt a rival Club when the Toons' fall through the trapdoor in May.

    Follow up planned ..

    Bring up the Bodies.....A grisly tale revealing what really happened to those sacked managers when they dared to cross She Who Must Be Obeyed. The excavators at Sparrows Lane uncover untold horror....
  • sm
    sm Posts: 2,960
    Heart of Darkness - a cautionary tale about Belgians establishing overseas empires.

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  • sm
    sm Posts: 2,960
    Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The story of one young striker's donut addiction and his enforced exile to Cardiff.

    I thought that was about Alan Pardew.
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,867
    Million Dollar Naby.....A young French defender arrives at The Valley but can he live up to his transfer fee.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,740
    The Sixth Sense ... Katrien Meire's shocking revulation; I see Football Managers as she stares wide eyed on the front cover
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,740
    Enemy at the Gates ... A short story by Katrien Meire describing how she single handed the Charlton protest, not once did they manage to reach the Protest section because she locked the Car Park Gates

    All Quiet in the Western Stand ... Memoirs from the many Charlton fans in the West Stand and the amount of noise they make, naturally its a very short book because not many wanted to speak other than a constant phrase: SIDDARN!!
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,597
    The Crying Game- a fan's first hand account of the the January transfer window.

    The 49 steps- yes, the disabled lift is out of action again.

    Fever Pitch- a PR genius explains how a cheap video of a couple shagging in the centre-circle puts a family football club in the top tier of international sport.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,253
    To Kill A Mockingbird - one man's plans to execute a CEO that keeps taking the piss.
  • twiggyaddick
    twiggyaddick Posts: 1,565
    edited November 2015
    Gone With The Wind - How the transfers of Yann Kermorgant, Dale Stephens and Tony Watt Transpired, Foreword from Phil Chapple

    The Kat in The Hat

    Katrien takes pictures of a mass gathering of individuals representing 2% of a base all while in a Kangol Hat
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,748
    Trainspotting

    I don't believe any further comment is required
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,740
    edited November 2015
    The Da Roland Code ... Two Charlton fans, digging in the Belgian Countryside come across a mysterious box, inside that box are clues to decipher Roland's business plan for Charlton, are they smart enough... Can they understand it!!
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,842
    About a Bhoy - Tony Watt's autobiographical account of scoring against Barca at 18, being sold for a million, and then being trafficked around European cities by a mad-man owner until nobody loved him anymore

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  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,971
    1984 - One mans crusade on how he reduced match day attendances to 1984
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,144
    10 - The sequel to 1984...
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,273
    This thread nearly cost me my job. I was howling with laughter, which attracts attention in a quiet office.
  • Sam lloyd
    Sam lloyd Posts: 1,083
    This thread is the funniest I've read - EVER. You're all geniuses !!
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    edited November 2015
    Clem_Snide said:

    Trainspotting

    I don't believe any further comment is required

    Admin should flag this one.

    WARNING TO ALL CHARLTON FANS

    I've read this book. There are no trains. False advertising.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,740
    IA said:

    Clem_Snide said:

    Trainspotting

    I don't believe any further comment is required

    Admin should flag this one.

    WARNING TO ALL CHARLTON FANS

    I've read this book. There are no trains. False advertising.
    Argh man!!... Might as well put the tissues away then :(
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,971
    This thread just keeps on giving
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,748
    edited November 2015
    Scheming with a smile

    One man's metoric rise from coach of a Belgian pub teams' reserves to interim coach of a successful, well run English Championship club, who's CE has never made a bad decision.

    Marvel as Carol Fryley wins over the disgruntled 2%
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,253
    One Hundred Years of Solitude - A story of how our project 20,000 failed.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,915
    Welcome Home by Peeters and Lee

    A former Interim Manager collaborates with a former player who s career only started when he joined the Geordies

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