Charlton have already sold out their allocation of nearly 1,400 tickets for Saturday's fixture at Stevenage which says something about the loyalty of our core support.
Fifty years ago Stevenage were playing my non-league team Leamington, but The Football League Paper was speculating on Sunday that they might go straight up to the Championship, replicating a feat of two successive promotions achieved by Charlton in the 1930s.
The Football League Show showed a 'street artist' hired by Hertfordshire Council painting a wall in what looked like a tunnel with the achievements of the Borough, including a life sized depiction of the current captain,31-year old defender Carl Pietrgianni, which seems a bit of a hostage to fortune.
Charm merchant manager Steve Evans has certainly transformed their fortunes since he took over eighteen months ago and earned a two page spread in Sunday's Football League Paper, admittedly on a slow football news day.
The modest 60-year old supremo claimed that the objective was simply to stay in League One, they didn't have resources to do more than that. 'We've got a good owner, we know what we're doing on and off the pitch,'
Tbe Fan File contributor in Four Four Two said of Evans: 'A few older fans still have a lingering unease with Evans' previous misdemeanours, while his touchline shenanigans aren't exactly acclaimed. The bottom line, though, is that he got us promoted against seemingly enormous odds - everything else is a footnote.'
Four Four Two forecast that Boro would get 50 points and finish 19th. Their fan file contributor only had them at 14th.
Key players include defender Nathan Thompson (29), midfielder Ben Thompson (27)and striker Jamie Reid (29). They 'know the game inside out' unlike Charlton's youngsters. On loan keeper Toye Ashby-Hammond was signed on a permanent deal from Fulham.
Stevenage currently top the table, although they have drawn two of their home games. When I did my Badger League predictions before the season started I had this down as a Charlton defeat and it could be a case of men against boys on Saturday, but Charlton can win the most unlikely contests.
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