Charlton’s first home match of the season ended with a welcome win for the Addicks. KEVIN NOLAN returned to the press box at a blazing hot Valley.

Having spent almost all of a torrid first half with their backs against the wall, Charlton re-emerged after the interval to carry the fight to ragged-trousered aristocrats Derby, scored midway through the second session and had enough about them to make their single strike count.

County were left to rue missed chances and a fatal lack of killer instinct. They paid a bitter price for failing to crown their effortless superiority with at least one goal because if football teaches us anything, it’s that there’s almost inevitably a price to pay for profligacy. Charlton missed a couple of sitters themselves but when the chips were down, they were sufficiently clinical on one critical occasion. And once was enough.

The momentum was with the Addicks as they broke swiftly after clearing the latest of Conor Hourihane’s numerous, dangerous corners. Picking up possession in his own half, Scott Fraser swept into the Rams’ half before finding Charlie Kirk close to the left touchline. Kirk’s deft flick sent Albie Morgan through to move into shooting range and force a desperate diving save from Joe Wildsmith. Following up alertly, Corey Blackett-Taylor made easy work of planting the rebound into an inviting net and Charlton had a vital lead they proceeded to defend stubbornly.

The early running was made exclusively by Liam Rosenior’s talented side, who had little difficulty in creating opportunities, but they had considerably more difficulty in converting them. To be fair to them, they faced, in new Charlton signing Joe Wollacott, a goalkeeper in outstanding form.

A string of splendid saves began with the instinctive reaction which kept out James Collins’ point-blank effort and was continued by Wollacott’s unorthodox response to a clever backheel from Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, a victim again when the resourceful keeper dived to reach his low drive as it headed towards the bottom right corner. And when Collins finally beat Wollacott a minute before the break, his crisp daisycutter rebounded back off the foot of a post.

Very little had been seen from Ben Garner’s men up front but Kirk was an intermittent threat, alertly but inaccurately trying his luck from distance after a slip from Curtis Davies, then producing the juiciest of crosses from the left which Jayden Stockley, despite making meaty contact, headed straight at Wildsmith.

Outplayed and outclassed, Charlton sheepishly retired for what was surely the rough side of new boss Ben Garner’s tongue. His message, however couched, was probably short but certainly less than sweet. According to Garner, nothing discussed and rehearsed in training had been implemented by his wayward charges – his only consolation being that they could hardly get worse.

But on the half hour, whether or not he realised it, he received a break which had much to do with Charlton’s dramatic second-half recovery. Preferred to George Dobson, last season’s player of the year, Conor McGrandles has shown promise but struggled to get into a game all but totally controlled by the visitors. Coming off worse in a shuddering collision with Korey Smith, the willowy midfielder suffered a head injury which forced his withdrawal and replacement by Dobson.

No criticism of McGrandles is implied in commenting that Dobson’s arrival immediately challenged County’s midfield domination. There was a subtle but noticeable shift in physical superiority that was to turn around the one-way traffic which threatened to engulf the Londoners. And Dobson was at the root of it.

On the right side, meanwhile, Blackett-Taylor began to use his blistering pace and leave hapless defenders in his slipstream. Shortly after the re-start, he ghosted past his marker and supplied Stockley with a precise cross, which the misfiring centre forward again headed straight at Wildsmith.

Rosenior’s East Midlanders had been duly warned that Blackett-Taylor was briefly on fire. Shortly after the hour mark, his speed and anticipation carried him into the perfect position to convert Morgan’s partially saved shot; significantly he was unaccompanied as he did so.

Soaking up pressure but no longer buckling under it, the Addicks were well served by full backs Steven Sessegnon and Sean Clare, a Mutt and Jeff pairing which resisted stubbornly while finding time to turn defence into attack. In front of them, Morgan continued his encouraging improvement, adding another on-target shot before the end, which Wildsmith saved with difficulty.

Late substitute Jack Payne was an energetic influence but it was the romantic introduction of Miles Leaburn which especially delighted the home crowd, Leaburn the Younger provided a keep-ball cameo which saw the Addicks over the line for a belt-and-braces victory. Their cause was boosted by the incredible mess Jason Knight made of Max Bird’s tape-measured cross. With Wollacott’s goal at his mercy, Knight almost deliberately headed yards wide.

Charlton: Wollacott, Clare, Inniss, O’Connell, Sessegnon (Lavelle 90), Morgan, McGrandles (Dobson 31), Kirk (Jaiyesimi 81), Fraser (Payne 81), Blackett-Taylor (Leaburn 80), Stockley (Clayden 90). Not used: MacGillivray. Booked: Sessegnon, Morgan.

Derby: Wildsmith, Cashin, Barkhuizen (Dobbin 70), Bird, Smith (Sibley 55), Roberts (Forsyth 84), Davies, Knight, Mendez-Laing, Hourihane, Collins. Not used: Loach, Thompson, Stearman, Oduroh. Booked: Mendez-Laing.

Referee: Chris Pollard Attendance: 17,046

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A deeply disappointed KEVIN NOLAN saw a 12th place finish in League One cruelly snatched from Charlton’s grasp on the last day of a season of stifling mediocrity. He gamely removed his tongue from his cheek and came up with the following report.

Sinking to previously unplumbed depths of ineptitude, not to mention incompetence, Charlton inflicted on nearly 2,000 followers a performance which should live in club history as a “day of infamy”. They were almost comically bad but were spared a hiding of historic proportions by their hit-or-miss tormentors, who squandered a lorry load of chances on their way to an emphatic 4-0 victory.

To be scrupulously fair, the Addicks might have scored one or two themselves. Town keeper Christian Walton pulled off a superb save to keep out Jayden Stockley’s first half header but should subsequently have been given no chance by Stockley, who managed to hit the bar from two yards in the second session.

And before moving on, we can’t overlook the mess Conor Washington concocted when presented with a gaping net by Walton and his dithering defenders as they treated Chuks Aneke’s lofted ball like a live grenade. Washington helpfully defused the danger by lobbing tamely over the top.

That last paragraph might have left readers with the impression that at some point during this acutely embarrassing exercise, Charlton actually made a decent fight of it. The uncomfortable truth is they were never in with a chance once their hosts sprinted into a two-goal lead within 11 minutes of the start.

Hungrier, sharper, quicker to every ball, the Tractor Boys were superior in every department. Their victims were no more than acquiescent dupes. Or dopes – take your pick.

At the painful end of Town’s opening onslaught was 22 year-old league debutant Nathan Harness, who had good reason to curse his luck. Young Nathan was horribly exposed as Tyreeq Bakinson was allowed time and space to tee up an unencumbered shot from just outside the penalty area and made the most of abysmal marking to find the top right corner.

Still reeling from the nightmare start, Harness, who was deputising for off-colour first choice Craig McGillivray, then left his line to confront Wes Burns, who was sent through the middle by Conor Chaplin’s defence-splitting pass, but was beaten by the lively wide man’s coolly slotted finish. At that exact point in the lopsided proceedings, only the hardest of hearts would have begrudged the novice keeper at least a grain of sympathy. It’s likely that his confidence had already been compromised by the clearance he shanked into touch while dealing with a criminally under-hit back pass before the first goal.

With friends like those he found in front of him, Harness had no need to look far for enemies. He’s young, he’ll get over it.

The instinctive reaction Walton produced to turn aside Stockley’s clever header from Adam Matthews’ perfect cross was the visitors’ only positive contribution to the first half.

Five minutes after the interval, they made a chaotic start to the second period by conceding for the third time. Largely responsible for their downfall was ex-Addick Macauley Bonne, regularly undermined during his stay at The Valley by the harsh criticism of his manager Lee Bowyer.

Possibly with a point to make and a score to settle, Bonne was a lively thorn in Charlton’s flesh and laid on Burns’ second strike with a perfect low ball from the left which gave Burns the easy task of sweeping home from close range. Bonne had already netted similarly in the first half but was ruled offside.

Blundering from one mini-crisis to the next, meanwhile, Charlton were woeful. Second balls were passively conceded, clearances were panicky and passing was, shall we say, less than precise. Substitutes Jake Forster-Caskey and Aneke replaced ineffectual midfielders Albie Morgan and Alex Gilbey to marginally positive effect but nothing really worked.

So devastating while rampaging down the left flank recently, Corey Blackett-Taylor was re-deployed at right wingback and, apart from delivering the delicious cross which Stockley wastefully headed against the bar, got nowhere. On an afternoon when none of Johnnie Jackson’s troops stood out, neither Akin Famewo nor Ryan Inniss put a foot right.

Skipper Jason Pearce at least cleared heroically off the goalline from Luke Woolfenden, whose talented skipper Sam Morsy contrived to scuff wide from 10 yards when neatly set up by Burns. Not that Ipswich were denied a fourth goal.

Blameless for the first three goals, poor Harness carried some of the blame for the shot which Bonne’s 85th minute replacement, James Norwood, squeezed home off the far post from a seemingly impossible position on the right byline. In mitigation, Charlton’s beleaguered debutant had received less than sturdy support from Famewo.

Norwood’s coup-de-grace provided a fitting end, not only to this dismal game, but to an equally dismal season.

Except to gratuitously single out Elkan Baggott. Youthful Tractor Boy Elkan put in a steady shift at the back but admittedly did nothing to warrant special recognition. But come on… Elkan Baggott – how often do you come across a magnificent name like that? So in he goes, lump it or like it.

Anyway, that’s me about done until we pick it up again in July. So unless you have something to add… that’s all folks!

Ipswich: Walton, Penney, Woolfenden, Burns, Bakinson, Bonne (Norwood 85), Chaplin (Humphrys 76), Celina, Donacien (Vincent-Young 56), Baggott, Morsy. Not used: Hladky, Pigott, El Mizouni, Aluko.

Charlton: Harness, Blackett-Taylor, Pearce, Famewo, Inniss, Morgan (Forster-Caskey 68), Gilbey (Aneke 54), Matthews, Dobson, Stockley, Washington (Lee 75). Not used: Henderson, Jaiyesimi, Burstow, Elerewe. Booked: Dobson.

Referee: Charles Breakspear. Att: 26,002 (1,972 visiting).

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Thanks to Kevin for his reports this season. We’re glad to say he’ll be back next season, which begins on July 30.

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The Addicks sent their visitors from down the North Kent Line packing on a nervous night at The Valley. KEVIN NOLAN was there.

On a chilly evening when the result was all that mattered, an opportunistic strike by Alex Gilbey – his second goal of a stop-start season – was enough to settle this scruffy game and all but dismiss Charlton’s lingering fears of relegation to the unspeakable horrors of League Two.

Unable to exploit the Addicks’ alarming second-half disintegration, Gillingham were at least favoured by other results, leaving them a precarious fourth from bottom and still under severe pressure to survive the drop.

To be brutally frank, this downmarket clash between substandard teams went largely unnoticed elsewhere. But at The Valley, the nerves were palpable, mistakes rife and the mood tetchy.

A disappointing home crowd, bolstered by a lively contingent from the Orchard of England, saw Charlton start brightly, control much of the first half and take a deserved lead into their dressing room at half-time. The second half told a different story as the Addicks, increasingly aware of the stakes on offer, appeared to freeze. The visitors sensed their vulnerability, grew in confidence but lacked the quality to press home their growing advantage.

As the tension affected Johnnie Jackson’s men, their ability to hold on to the ball disappeared. Clearances were inconclusive and their pre-interval grip on the game loosened. An equaliser seemed, if not inevitable, then more than likely.

As they battled to hang on to their lead, Charlton rediscovered the spirit so frequently lacking during a seven-game winless streak. They ran, pressed and covered for each other with almost manic enthusiasm.

Up front, Conor Washington and Jayden Stockley set an example of unstinting effort, while Corey Blackett-Taylor’s frequent bursts of pace pinned the Gills back and provided respite for his nerve-shredded side. Behind them, George Dobson supplied his usual energy, the often unfairly maligned Gilbey did his bit and Scott Fraser showed enough to suggest there’s more to come from this talented playmaker. His 66th minute substitute, Elliot Lee, shook off a shaky start before providing a masterclass in how to run down the clock with several cameos, of which the storied Tony Watt would have approved.

It was Gilbey, restored to the starting line-up after being dropped for the last two games, who provided the 40th minute breakthrough. He had already gone close by capping a blistering run with a shot which whistled narrowly wide and was clearly in the mood to try his luck. In support as Blackett-Taylor’s drive was spilled by Pontus Dahlberg, he pounced on the rebound when the keeper bravely parried Stockley’s follow-up, and netted on the turn from 14 yards. His goal ended Charlton’s failure to score from open play since Lee headed the Addicks in front at Wigan on February 12th – a barren run of five games.

Though they beavered away industriously, Neil Harris’ men created little of note to bother Craig McGillivray. Top scorer Vadaine Oliver headed Ben Thompson’s first half cross tamely into McGillivray’s hands and Conor Masterson sent a 25-yard snapshot whistling wide after the break.

His keeper’s relative inactivity didn’t dissuade Jackson from singling out McGillivray for special mention. “I thought Craig was excellent. I’m pleased because obviously we’ve conceded a few goals and I know he took that pretty hard so he deserved that clean sheet. And the win came from hard work and heart and they showed that in abundance today.”

It’s been a rough ride recently for Charlton’s popular boss – ringing the changes as his depleted team hit the skids. Seven games without winning sent them into dangerous freefall and Jackson spoke for everyone in stressing the overriding importance of this result.

It hadn’t been about the elegance of the performance – which was just as well – but winning, however ugly it was. “We’ve had important players missing and that’s impacted on results,” he remarked. “We’ve had to try another way and it’s been difficult but I think you saw tonight when we get those guys on the pitch, we’re going to win football matches.” Amen to that, boss.

And 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.

Just make sure those tools can play 90 minutes and can turn out regularly. We have more than enough part-time players as it is. We’re lucky to have this bloke in charge. So don’t screw it up.

Charlton: McGillivray, Clare, Lavelle, Purrington, Matthews, Dobson, Gilbey, Fraser (Lee 66), Blackett-Taylor (Pearce 88), Washington, Stockley. Booked: Gilbey, Stockley. Not used: Harness, Gunter, Jaiyesimi, Leko, Burstow.

Gillingham: Dahlberg, Tutonda (Dickson-Peters 81), O’Keefe, Ehmer, Tucker, Thompson, Lee, McKenzie (Lintott 59), Masterson, Oliver, Kelman. Booked: O’Keefe. Not used: Chapman, Maghoma, Akehurst, Chambers.

Referee: Will Finnie. Attendance: 9,728 (1,559 visiting).

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After the turmoil of recent weeks, a goalless draw with Sunderland came as a relief for The Charlton Champion‘s KEVIN NOLAN…

No doubt you’ll have noticed that Charlton never lose any of those past games they show on the big screen before kick-off. They win ’em all.

It must rankle among fans in the adjoining Jimmy Seed Stand to be force-fed so much failure. Having said that, it was hard to identify what games they picked when Millwall were the visitors a couple of years ago; those grainy pre-war pictures are tough to make out.

Be fair though, what brings a glow of pleasurable nostalgia to SE7 is still a bitter pill to swallow on Wearside; no wonder Sunderland live and breathe vengeance, with those play-off finals sticking in their craw.

They came south on Saturday, confident that revenge was there for the taking against their nemesis but instead met a side prepared to dig in and redeem themselves after a miserable run of results; a modest side (with much to be modest about recently) but one with their backs to the wall and spoiling for a fight. The point they took from this dour but competitive encounter will be of more satisfaction to Charlton than the one taken home by Sunderland, who slipped from sixth to no-account seventh in the table.

Heartened by the return from injury of Jayden Stockley and by the eagerly anticipated full debut of Scott Fraser, worried manager Johnnie Jackson will draw quiet encouragement from the excellent contribution made by Diallang Jaiyesimi. The mercurial No 7 only rarely crossed the halfway line but tackled, intercepted and read the game like a seasoned defender. His was an unselfish, disciplined, performance which placed his team’s needs above his natural impulse to go forward.

Also worthy of special mention in a generally solid display were Jason Pearce and Craig McGillivray. You know what’s on offer from the redoubtable skipper and he invariably delivers. There’s nothing he relishes more than a no quarter-asked-or given encounter with a physical opponent and, in prolific Scot Ross Stewart, he was evenly matched.

With 22 goals already this season, Stewart was unable to add to his tally but posed a constant threat. Several chances were either directed wide or saved by McGillivray. But Pearce kept him relatively quiet, something few centre backs have achieved this season.

McGillivray’s excellent statistics took a battering in February, during which Charlton shipped 14 goals in six games, the last three of which yielded 8 of those goals. Those statistics, however, don’t register the often stunning saves he made to make the margin of defeat manageable.

Against free-scoring Sunderland, he made a string of defiant stops to keep the Addicks level. The best of them was the athletic tip-over which kept out Bradley Pritchard’s swerving first half free kick, though the full length dive he made to tip Stewart’s corner-bound shot to safety had its admirers.

In between the spectacular was the competence he showed in repelling Patrick Roberts’s one-on-one effort and the sound positioning which made Elliot Embleton’s crisp daisycutter a matter of routine to handle.

The Addicks’ chances were fewer, though they came close to collaring all three points in a hectic finish to an otherwise attritional struggle. Stronger than their visitors during the closing minutes, they forced a series of setpieces which had the Black Cats wilting. Elliot Lee’s much-improved performance culminated in a salvo of late free kicks conceded by the tiring Wearsiders.

Following Roberts’ foul on substitute Jonathan Leko, Lee’s inswinging delivery from the left was headed narrowly wide by an unmarked Sam Lavelle. A mere minute later, Bailey Wright wearily impeded Stockley in the same area and Lee’s free kick picked out the blond centre forward wide of the far post. A venomous volley whistled across the six-yard area, left Anthony Patterson helpless, but eluded the sliding Lavelle by agonising inches. “Would have been harsh on Sunderland,” admitted Jackson. Be honest, John, would you have cared? Or shown a grain of sympathy?

Jackson was easier to believe in his comments about his side’s performance. “It came from hard work and heart”, he remarked, “and they showed that in abundance.” They did indeed, boss, none more so than Pearce, whose defiance inspired Chris Gunter to resourcefully clear off the goalline from Dennis Cirkin during a period of Sunderland pressure early in the second half. Also, George Dobson kept hustling, as did Lee and Ben Purrington.

This was a worthy point, with Mason Burstow’s extreme youth mitigating the tame finish he applied to Stockley’s deftly headed flick. Mason’s not the finished article but he put in the same effort as his more experienced colleagues.

Anyway, I think we can safely say this point – and other results – remove any possibility of relegation. That’s not something we should be celebrating but it’s some sort of relief.

At least we can embark on our owner’s five-year plan from a League One, rather than League Two, starting point, something he hasn’t mentioned lately. Probably in the recording studio. Anyone know if we’re still on?

Charlton: McGillivray, Gunter, Lavelle, Pearce, Purrington, Jaiyesimi, Dobson, Lee, Fraser (Gilbey 66), Stockley, Burstow (Leko 73). Not used: Harness, Famewo, Morgan, John, Matthews. Booked: Purrington, Dobson, Lavelle, Lee.

Sunderland: Patterson, Evans, Broadhead (Clarke 70), Gooch (Roberts 81), Stewart, Winchester, Cirkin, Xhemajli, Pritchard (Embleton 75), Wright, Matete. Not used: Hoffmann, Doyle, Neil, Hume. Booked: Clarke, Cirkin, Wright

Referee: Anthony Backhouse Attendance: 13,716 (2,702 visiting).

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The Addicks sank to another defeat last night as their slide down the League One table continued. KEVIN NOLAN reports.

Bang in form and full of themselves, Milton Keynes swept into The Valley on Tuesday evening, intent on proving that whatever Oxford United could do, they could do better.

Four days previously, Oxford had barely broken sweat in cutting Charlton to ribbons; MK confidently expected to mop up the debris left by Saturday’s conquerors and bank three similarly easy points. They didn’t quite emulate their predecessors but their victory was achieved with the same casual swagger.

Liam Manning’s promotion hopefuls were followed down from the Buckinghamshire boondocks by just over 600 fans. They were cocky, entitled and relished the reversal of roles which made them the warmest of favourites, with the bedraggled Addicks prohibitive underdogs.

They huddled together in the Jimmy Seed Stand, and, without any sense of irony, confirmed their club’s reputation as football cuckoos by shamelessly adopting Millwall’s “no-one likes us” anthem as their own. This bunch of empty-headed arrivistes hardly deserve the fluent, gifted side that Manning dexterously manages.

Bereft of three experienced strikers and riddled with weaknesses elsewhere, meanwhile, Johnnie Jackson made several changes from the shambolic side with which Oxford had toyed. A full debut was handed to Juan Castillo – a dubious honour in such discouraging circumstances – and Sam Lavelle made a welcome return from injury.

Chris Gunter resumed at right-back with Sean Clare beginning a three-game suspension after being sent off against Oxford. Adam Matthews operated at right wingback, while Mason Burstow was partnered with Jonathan Leko up front.

Jackson’s frustration was easy to imagine when Burstow limped off in the second half with what looked ominously like hamstring trouble. And there was still little sign of Covid victim Scott Fraser, so briefly impressive at Bolton.

Jackson had every right to be pleased with the first-half performance of his sorely depleted side. They held their own, made one or two chances and apart from an early scare when Troy Parrott’s poor control allowed Craig McGillivray to pounce on Conor Coventry’s pinpoint pass over the top, were comfortable defensively.

At the other end, Matthews’ hard, low cross proceeded untouched through a crowded goal area before being blasted over the bar by George Dobson; then Lavelle’s sprawling header sent Albie Morgan’s right wing corner spinning wide, with Jamie Cumming a concerned spectator When Akin Famewo’s last-ditch tackle foiled Scott Twine’s attempt to exploit a precise through ball from Harry Darling, Charlton seemed to have emerged unscathed from a low-key first half.

Dressing-room sanctuary was but four minutes away when the visitors struck. A quickfire raid through the middle featured another fine ball from Coventry, which left wingback Tennai Watson slipped deftly into the bottom left corner. The first goal is important in any game. Given Charlton’s chronic lack of firepower, it loomed even larger in this context.

Relaxed and expertly organised, Milton Keynes showed little anxiety in seeking a second goal to settle the issue. Twine’s 20-yard free kick beat the wall but missed its target by mere inches; and McGillivray produced a marvellous save to keep out Conor Wickham’s header from Josh McEachran’s corner.

MK’s understandable complacency should have been punished by an unmarked Burstow, who made an awkward hash of driving Morgan’s perfect cross into the ground and harmlessly over Cumming’s bar. It was a bad miss and was promptly punished by an overdue coup-de-grace.

McGillivray’s brilliance seemed to have got his side off the hook when his instinctive save kept out Wickham’s vicious low drive. He was still grounded as Kaine Kesler-Hayden reacted first to convert the rebound. With half an hour still remaining, this result was already guaranteed.

And it leaves Charlton still nervously aware of the relegation battle bubbling beneath them. This isn’t the way it was meant to be. But it is, as they say, what it is. It ain’t over yet.

Charlton: McGillivray, Gunter, Lavelle, Famewo, Dobson (Campbell 88), Morgan, Gilbey, Matthews, Leko (Jaiyesimi 64), Castillo, Burstow (Lee 71). Not used: Harness, Purrington, Pearce, Kanu. Booked: Gilbey.

Milton Keynes: Cumming, Watson, Lewington, O’Hora, Darling, Twine (Corbeanu 80), Coventry, McEachran (Kasumu 80), Wickham (Eisa 64), Parrott, Kesler-Hayden. Not used: Ravizzoli, Smith, Kemp, Boateng.

Referee: Sam Purkiss. Att: 8,807 (605 visiting).

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