Charlton fans are busy slagging off each other on social media on the usual topics: views of Jones and whether we will be relegated. It might be a good idea in these circumstances just to calm down get behind the team.
Of course we constantly told it's all about opinions whereas the world I live is one where evidence counts for more.
I have tried to keep clear of the Peter Mandelson affair. After all, unlike top Super Hoops fan and Charlton critic Lord Young of Acton, I was not named in the Epstein files.*
Unfortunately, trying to keep my head down has not worked and I have been contacted by the integrity and ethics branch of the Cabinet Office. They certainly won't want opinions from me next week.
We do have a lot more evidence these days about football finances and how they affect performance, but the fact that Charlton has one of the lowest playing budgets in the Championship rarely features in the discussion.
BTW, I'm not saying I like Michael Gove but he was an effective minister in the sense that he managed to get two departments to change policy direction and that is not easy. So why as editor of the Spectator is he encouraging his columnists to have a go at Charlton?
If he is thinking of adding subscribers, I am told that getting any magazines into a prison is not easy so not much luck with Spanners. And if he is thinking of the Nigels, they are too busy pretending to be ultras to be seen reading a magazine.
*It should be pointed out that the noble Lord has explained that he was inadvertently included in Epstein's contacts book because of a tenuous acquaintance with G Maxwell. He has denied visiting 'Paedo Island' (his terminology), travelling on the so-called Lolita Express aircraft or visiting Epstein in one of his homes or at a correctional facility.
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