Drying out

I haven't been posting this week as we took a few days break on the 'English Riviera'.   It's over fifty years since I lived in Devon and I had forgotten how persistent and penetrating the rain can be.  However, we did enjoy two excellent meals from recently caught fish and the hotel could not be more unlike Fawlty Towers.

Now I have to face up to tomorrow's fixture which Í always find it difficult to be optimistic about.  Richard Cawley has taken a few days to benefit from the rain in Cornwall so I do not know what Nathan Jones said at his press conference.

The CAS Trust preview for the match points out that statistics can be misleading: https://www.castrust.org/2025/09/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics-of-the-awkward-derby/

Greenwich Police have rather belatedly announced the arrangements for dispersal after tomorrow's game. I remember the last time we played Millwall at home it took me a considerable time to get away from the ground, Millwall fans have been allowed to disperse first.

CAS Trust have commented on what seem to be similar arrangements: 'It’s disappointing to see this announced at short notice and without explaining why the away fans aren’t being held back.'

Mind you, I can think of a few reasons.

I have just donated a considerable collection of memorabilia to the Charlton museum.  Understandably they did not want the programmes from the Curbs era onwards (including away programmes).   Some are in Charlton folders, others in boxes so they would have to be collected from Leamington (I am about two miles from the M40 junction).

I will also try the local Freecycle, but ultimately they will have to be recycled.