Congratulations in advance mate!
One silver lining to these playoffs is that I genuinely like Charlton and Orient as clubs (and don’t really mind Stockport) so we don’t have to lose to someone I dislike.
In case you are not up to speed, here is a summary of our season:
- Our legendary most-capped player of league era turns out to be an excellent manager, and has us top of the league playing champagne football.
- Behind the scenes, our new billionaire overlords had told him he was not wanted before a ball was kicked, but wanted a bad run of form to sack him (I assume for the “fan optics”).
- He never had that bad run, but with his employees being sacked from under him and him being told he was not wanted repeatedly, he applied for any Champo jobs that came along.
- After he left, we bought loads of new players (most of whom we didn’t actually need), breaking our transfer fee twice for Danes who have barely played a minute.
- We remembered we needed someone to coach them, and saw a picture of Mike Dodds hugging Jude Bellingham (evidently) and did not look at how awful he was as an interim at Sunderland.
- Dodds turned out to be a nice chap who believes in not just parking the bus, but buying a bus depot and placing the goal carefully exactly behind it.
- We go from smashing teams to 0-0, 1-0, 0-1 and 1-1s for most of the rest of the season.
- Somehow we play you with it still in our own hands. Spoiler: None of the scorelines above came into play.
- We lose our final two games to the other two playoff teams, just in case Orient or Stockport are struggling for any confidence too.
- On top of all this, our fanbase is divided because some know how badly our club legend was treated (it goes way beyond the summary above) whereas others think he deserted us.
Hopefully you can see why our gruntle has been so thoroughly dissed!