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Kevin Nolan signs for The Charlton Champion
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"Hunch-shouldered, urgent and hardly the most elegant player on the pitch, Dobson had a horse of a game"
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/01/23/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-2-0-fleetwood-town/
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"They have pulled themselves together and proved that they are too good to go down"1
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"Charlton’s fabled old ground is more playgroup than fortress these days. And don’t get me started on the Crossbar Challenge when you’re two down at half-time!"
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/02/20/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-0-4-oxford-united/
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"This isn’t the way it was meant to be."
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/02/23/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-0-2-milton-keynes/
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"At least we can embark on our owner's five-year plan from a League One, rather than League Two, starting point"0
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"A word to the owner. You don’t buy a dog and bark yourself. Johnnie Jackson is the right man for the job. Give him the right tools and he’ll do that job."
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/03/16/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-1-0-gillingham/
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“Burton were pretty lightweight…in fact they were awful.”
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/03/20/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-2-0-burton-albion/
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Spot on, as ever. I think we can all relate to the first two paragraphs0
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"The owner's foolhardy 'five-year plan' to reach the Premier League was reduced to a hollow joke"
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/04/03/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-1-2-lincoln-city/
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“To say Jackson’s side has been a massive let-down would be to stretch understatement to unplumbed depths.”
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/04/16/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-2-3-morecambe/
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"There's everything - well, not everything but definitely something - left to play for this season. You just have to know where to look."0
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"Sinking to previously unplumbed depths of ineptitude, not to mention incompetence..."
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/05/01/kevin-nolans-valley-view-ipswich-town-4-0-charlton-athletic/(Kev's back next season, please consider supporting the site if you enjoy his reports!)1 -
InspectorSands said:"Sinking to previously unplumbed depths of ineptitude, not to mention incompetence..."
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/05/01/kevin-nolans-valley-view-ipswich-town-4-0-charlton-athletic/(Kev's back next season, please consider supporting the site if you enjoy his reports!)1 -
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"An electrifying evening"3
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"Passive to the point of inertia, they were as bland on Saturday as they were brilliant on Tuesday."
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/08/21/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-1-1-cambridge-united/
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"The Addicks are an ordinary team who belong in the lower half of the division. It could get better, but don’t bet on it."
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/10/02/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-1-1-oxford-united/
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"An atmosphere more suited to a funeral parlour than the home ground of promotion aspirants"2
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"What played out during those barmy six minutes (which actually stretched to almost ten) defied description"2
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"A needlessly fraught afternoon"
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What's especially noticeable reading through Kevin's report is his mention of young Zach Mitchell - something others have done following yesterday's match.
The 17 year old is an U 23 player I have been impressed by for some time.
He has all the qualities to become a 1st team player with us, following in the footsteps of his older brother, Billy, at Millwall.
Let's hope he's not on TS's radar yet....4 -
Good article, as we've come to expect, but I wonder what did the Coalville fans do to get KN's ire up to the point where he mentioned them not once, but twice: "unfortunately, a few charmless renegades along for the ride" and "no further exposure to those twerps who had attached themselves to the Town loyalists"?
I can't say I noticed them doing anything wrong, though I'd be the first to admit my ears aren't to sharp so they could have sang something I didn't hear. So, what did they do or say? The other question I have is that, whatever it was, how does KN know that it was people who came along for the ride and not Town loyalists?0 -
Kevin makes the point well that Garner should be congratulated for playing strong side, easing our potential discomfort and ultimately giving us an enjoyable F A Cup game to watch for once. With Bowyer's approach we could have had a much more unpleasant day and another stain on the reputation of the club. I agree with him too about the 'Leicester City' contingent with them. All that bitterness directed at us for not having a bigger turn out to see them and not feeling the need to sing about beating them. They should have spent more time supporting their side and celebrating their achievement.0
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Stig said:Good article, as we've come to expect, but I wonder what did the Coalville fans do to get KN's ire up to the point where he mentioned them not once, but twice: "unfortunately, a few charmless renegades along for the ride" and "no further exposure to those twerps who had attached themselves to the Town loyalists"?
I can't say I noticed them doing anything wrong, though I'd be the first to admit my ears aren't to sharp so they could have sang something I didn't hear. So, what did they do or say? The other question I have is that, whatever it was, how does KN know that it was people who came along for the ride and not Town loyalists?
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"A sentry guarding the post might have cleared the danger comfortably but that's so very yesterday, don't you think?4
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InspectorSands said:"A sentry guarding the post might have cleared the danger comfortably but that's so very yesterday, don't you think?
Let's hope Garner experiences some sort of Damascus road enlightenment. Much as I enjoy Kevin's creativity in recounting the self harm played out by Charlton's motley rabble, I'd much prefer he had simpler happier stories to tell.
Kevin Nolan: premier league writing on 3rd division action. With no intended disrespect to Darryl, Mr Nolan's output is worthy of a far wider readership.4 -
Billy_Mix said:
Kevin Nolan: premier league writing on 3rd division action. With no intended disrespect to Darryl, Mr Nolan's output is worthy of a far wider readership.
Trouble is, there's really no other platform for traditional match reports any more - there is no local newspaper left in the area any more, although the SLP has moved into this role for football coverage because they're savvy enough to see it's a niche that'll deliver for them (if you look at the page views on the SLP website their football coverage gets 4-5 times the page views the news gets). Louis and Rich Cawley do a brilliant job there and Kev has occasionally filled in on match report duty.
That said - as with local news - you get the coverage you're prepared to pay for. Kev's reports are on the Champion because readers, many of whom aren't there for the football, pay into it (and if you'd like to join them: https://www.presspatron.com/charltonchampion.html).
And as I've said a few times before, the SLP's position is precarious because the market is broken - it survives on local authority advertising from TfL, Lambeth and Lewisham because it has a monopoly in those areas and can charge huge sums, and gets much of its news from a free wire paid for by the BBC (which then justifies it getting those ads). When the SLP goes pop, fans are going to have to ask themselves whether they are willing to crowdfund a fat five-figure sum each year to cover match reports, press conferences and day to day news about the club. Because nobody else is going to stump up for it.1 -
InspectorSands said:Billy_Mix said:
Kevin Nolan: premier league writing on 3rd division action. With no intended disrespect to Darryl, Mr Nolan's output is worthy of a far wider readership.
Trouble is, there's really no other platform for traditional match reports any more - there is no local newspaper left in the area any more, although the SLP has moved into this role for football coverage because they're savvy enough to see it's a niche that'll deliver for them (if you look at the page views on the SLP website their football coverage gets 4-5 times the page views the news gets). Louis and Rich Cawley do a brilliant job there and Kev has occasionally filled in on match report duty.
That said - as with local news - you get the coverage you're prepared to pay for. Kev's reports are on the Champion because readers, many of whom aren't there for the football, pay into it (and if you'd like to join them: https://www.presspatron.com/charltonchampion.html).
And as I've said a few times before, the SLP's position is precarious because the market is broken - it survives on local authority advertising from TfL, Lambeth and Lewisham because it has a monopoly in those areas and can charge huge sums, and gets much of its news from a free wire paid for by the BBC (which then justifies it getting those ads). When the SLP goes pop, fans are going to have to ask themselves whether they are willing to crowdfund a fat five-figure sum each year to cover match reports, press conferences and day to day news about the club. Because nobody else is going to stump up for it.4 -
"The smart money was on another draw, most likely of the scoreless variety, and that's where it was heading until Ben Garner's men reached down into their repertoire of ineptitude."
https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2022/12/03/kevin-nolans-valley-view-charlton-athletic-0-1-cheltenham-town/
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"The Addicks’ steady decline is no longer merely embarrassing. It has become a deeply worrying process, which needs to be urgently addressed before the threat of relegation becomes not so much a threat as a grim, stark reality."0