From time to time questions are raised about whether Addick is really a corruption of haddock, referring to the fish and chip suppers enjoyed by early Charlton players provided by a fishmonger supporter.
I was recently reading a biography published in 1916 of Will Crooks, the first Labour MP for Woolwich. It contains the following passage in the chapter 'The Haunts of his Boyhood':
'Here,' cried a fish dealer, holding aloft a haddock, 'wot price this 'ere 'addick?'
'Tuppence,' suggested a woman bystander.
'Wot! Tuppence! 'Ow would you like to get a ship, an' go out to sea an' fish for 'addicks to sell for tuppence in foggy weather like this?'
So there you have it.
Let me get this straight, Wyn.
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Pembury Addick
Who gives a monkey's about the origins of the term? It must be the wankiest nickname of all the clubs in English divisions. I'd like to meet the tit the resurrected it. I was quite happy with The Robins or the fabicated sixties marketing man's name The Valliants.
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Swindon are also the Robins, and I think Cheltenham Town. Port Fail call themselves the Valiants. At least it's different.
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