Well, we stood up - boths sets of supporters. In the end Norwich's relegation came regardless of the result at The Valley, since Barnsley beat Plymouth away to make our result irrelevant. Before the game there were wicked thoughts that if, somehow, both Norwich and Barnsley went into administration, we'd stay up :->
We're not used to being three goals up in half an hour, but we're certainly no strangers to blowing a lead so when Norwich pulled one back we feared the worst. In the end, it was a heartening display from a young team, with no less than six local lads on the pitch as the game ended.
Even Youga and Butterfield, neither of whom are all that popular with sections of the crowd, did their bit, and Deon Burton scored the first Charlton hat trick since that remarkable and wholly unexpected flurry from Kevin Lisbie against Liverpool over five years ago.
The team did enough on the day to encourage a surprisngly large number of supporters to stay on for a while after the final whistle, and perhaps also enough to persuade a reasonable number of them to renew their season tickets.
So, it's time again to collate the season's match day photos and frame them for display in The Rose of Denmark. We failed to get photos of visiting supporters at six of the twentythree home games, which is disappointing, but there are still enough for a decent display. When I get a moment I'll work out how many photos we've taken so far and of how many clubs - after all, next season we'll be visited by loads of supporters who've never been to the RoD before.
