Read what you like into the result

You can read what you like in Charlton's 0-1 defeat at The Valley this afternoon by Athletico Bilbao in a somewhat ill-tempered match. I didn't make the journey down to London on this rather humid day for what was, whem all is said and done, a meaningless fixture. And I'm not sure it tells us anything about the coming season, although no surprise that Jerome Thomas failed to find the back of the net from the penalty spot.

You could say that it wasn't a good start to the revival of all singing, all dancing plucky little Charlton, back to its mixture of journeymen and promising youngsters. Or you could say that it could have been a lot worse. The real test comes next Saturday.