A new season at the snazziest modern stadium in England and something extremely welcome for Tottenham. A home win over domestic opposition. There were only four of them last time out; three in the Premier League with the final one – over Everton on the last day – helping them to avoid relegation. Had they … Read more
Key events 14m ago Wednesday’s Carabao Cup results 16m ago Full-time: Preston 0-4 Everton 18m ago Bradford beat Burnley 4-2 on pens 23m ago Full-time: Tottenham 5-1 Charlton 26m ago Full-time: Newcastle 3-2 West Brom 29m ago Goal! Tottenham 5-1 Charlton (Lloyd-Jones, 88) 32m ago Goal! Tottenham 5-0 Charlton (Davies, 85) 34m ago Goal! Tottenham … Read more
Guardian writers’ predicted position: 14th (NB: this is not necessarily Sophie Downey’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 3rd (WSL2) Prospects Just under 20 years since Charlton’s successful women’s team were disbanded after the men’s team’s relegation from the Premier League, they are finally back in the limelight and ready … Read more
Lloyd Jones struck Charlton’s seventh-minute opener after West Ham allowed a long throw-in to bounce inside their penalty area and Tyreece Campbell put Charlton 2-0 ahead when Konstantinos Mavropanos was dispossessed near his own penalty area after the break. “We created a lot of situations but we weren’t accurate enough in the boxes,” said former … Read more
Charlton’s US owners have put the club up for sale just three years after taking over at the Valley. The ownership group is understood to have engaged Oakwell Sports Advisory to find what would be the club’s fifth owner in the past six years. In a sales deck sent to potential investors, which has been … Read more
Few international teams in modern football history have been able to capture the imagination like Jack Charlton’s Republic of Ireland side of the early 1990s. Under the former Leeds United lynchpin, Ireland qualified for their first ever World Cup in 1990, reaching the quarter-finals in Italy, and soon proved that not to be a one-off, … Read more