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More coverage than the Championship final?

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 57,915
edited May 2019 in General Charlton
Anyone else been thinking that the last couple of days?

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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,088
    edited May 2019
    I think a re-run of the most famous playoff final in history has definitely captured a broader imagination than a normal L1 playoff final would manage to. 

    Not it sure if it’s getting more attention than the Championship final, could just seem that way to us.
  • rs340
    rs340 Posts: 52
    First time there's been a rematch of any play off final fixture too.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    I'm surprised more hasn't been made of the Championship final being a Chelsea old boys final
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The story writes itself because of 1998...if you're a rather unimaginative journalist.
    The best journalist will be the one that goes back to the first ever playoffs, there is a compelling story to be (re)-told in that one, and interesting connections and comparisons to be made.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,915
    Half hour highlights of 1998 on Sky Sports Football (403) at 10 tonight.
  • Daddy_Pig
    Daddy_Pig Posts: 496
    Charlton v Sunderland are also big enough clubs at that level to satiate the torture porn appetite amongst the populous
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,031
    Daddy_Pig said:
    Charlton v Sunderland are also big enough clubs at that level to satiate the torture porn appetite amongst the populous
    And 2 clubs who've both been newsworthy due to their failings. The "plastic pig throwers" against the Netflix boys
  • charltonnick
    charltonnick Posts: 3,065
    It does seem strange all this talk of the Charlton v Sunderland game and barely a mention of Leeds v Villa  ;)
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    cafcdave123 said:
    I'm surprised more hasn't been made of the Championship final being a Chelsea old boys final
    Chelsea old boys? 
  • BR3red
    BR3red Posts: 1,715
    John Terry v Frank Lampard

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  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Ah I didn’t realise he was Villa assistant. 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,915
    charltonnick said:
    It does seem strange all this talk of the Charlton v Sunderland game and barely a mention of Leeds v Villa  ;)
    Exactly, Sky and Talksport in particular seem to have gone large on our game
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Hardly mentioned the PO's on R5L...though that will change from today I'd think.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,993
    Hour long play off preview on Sky this evening. 
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    We are a much bigger club than Norwich or Derby
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,513
    smudge7946 said:
    We are a much bigger club than Norwich or Derby


    Not for me. Norwich pretty much sell out every home league game no matter what level they play at and once beat Bayern Munich (we've never even qualified for a proper European competition). Derby have been known to get 30,000 crowds for Championship league games, they won the 1st Division Title...and beat us 4-1 in an FA Cup Final. I've seen us beat both of them plenty of times....but also seen us get beat by them plenty.

  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,027
    Simonsen said:
    smudge7946 said:
    We are a much bigger club than Norwich or Derby


    Not for me. Norwich pretty much sell out every home league game no matter what level they play at and once beat Bayern Munich (we've never even qualified for a proper European competition). Derby have been known to get 30,000 crowds for Championship league games, they won the 1st Division Title...and beat us 4-1 in an FA Cup Final. I've seen us beat both of them plenty of times....but also seen us get beat by them plenty.

    Norwich and Derby have the advantage of being in Cities that dont really have any other League clubs, makes fan decision a lot easier than London

    I'd class them as bigger than us though because we've been fucked around too long now, they're bigger than us because one is a Premier League club now and the other might be!!

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