1000 Up -








Being as the creation of this Blog was inspired by charlton.blogspot its only appropriate that the first posting should apply to Charlton Athletic football club.

With the theme of our stats being in the air at the moment I thought I would add some news on that subject. After reading a listing of Charlton´s all-time position on a league basis on cynic athletic where we are placed either 19th in all-time Premiership points or 69th on all games played, I got to thinking that it would be better to find a league table based on how they do it over here where I live out my retirement, in Spain, an all-time table of our performance at the top level only ie First Division/Premier results.

After much searching I´ve managed to find the just such a list on:
here

This Table apparently adds up all the games and points gained in the old First and now Premier division. As you can see the searching was very timely as the listing ends at the end of last season but by adding on this seasons games it appears that our very next game at Newcastle will be Charlton's 1000 game at the top level.

And there´s more - with the three points from the Liverpool result we have moved up a place to 33rd! As not much happens in these tables owing to their timespan its not often that a team moves up.

Perhaps we should take note of that number 33. In the minds of many people Charlton, even with 25 seasons in the top flight, remain a club new to the Premier Division of English football. The table perhaps explains why we are considered by so many to be not very important. If you read the table you will notice that of the 20 teams currently playing premiership football only 2 teams are below Charlton in this all-time table, Fulham and Wigan.

And regarding punching above our weight, its a timely reminder that we are currently 21 places above ourselves in this all-time table. Only Fulham currently in 40th place and Wigan in their first ever season in the top flight can improve on that.