Charlton Athletic

It has been an eventful weekend in the Football League with goals aplenty, an abandoned match and much more

Only West Ham's James Ward-Prowse has created more chances from set pieces in the Premier League this season

A health check on the large number of EFL teams that have been invested in by Americans

Carl Jenkinson recalls his time at Arsenal – from his dream of joining club to realising he needed to leave even though he didn't want to

Maddison once held a reputation as the most creative player in the lower leagues but, disgraced and imprisoned, now has a very different one

Former Peterborough United and Charlton Athletic midfielder Marcus Maddison has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after an act of “egregious violence” left a 60-year-old woman with lasting injuries. Maddison, 29, appeared at Teesside Crown Court this morning after previously pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm following the late-night attack in September of last year. The one-time Newcastle United academy player admitted to striking the woman following an altercation at the end of a drunken night out in Darlington, throwing a single punch that the court heard had caused...

A head coach and his new striker reveal the tactical considerations involved in signing a No 9...

Joe Dodoo was part of the Leicester team who won the Premier League but is training by himself as he looks for a club

Chris Bart-Williams wasn't just a superb footballer. As told by former team-mates, he was a wonderful human-being, too

What young winger Rak-Sakyi could bring to Palace in 2023-24 following a successful loan at neighbours Charlton...

The Championship might be the second tier, but there is still plenty of money flowing through the division

A report on club finances in English men’s football has provided a frank assessment of the state of play, finding that most clubs are “heavily reliant” on their owners to provide cash injections on a regular basis. It adds that many sides owe other teams “significant amounts — resulting in a risk of a ‘house of cards’ systemic failure”. The report comes from LCP, a leading business consultancy based in London which developed TransferLab — the player scouting tool used by clubs and agencies — in partnership with football data company Analytics FC. It found that the...

Wrexham have been drawn at home to Wigan Athletic in the first round of the Carabao Cup. Wrexham, promoted from the National League last season, will welcome a Wigan side who suffered relegation to League One last term at the Racecourse Ground in their first League Cup fixture since 2007. Leeds United have been drawn at home to Shrewsbury Town, while Leicester City travel to Burton Albion. In the southern side of the draw, Southampton will travel to Gillingham and there is an all-Championship tie between Queens Park Rangers and Norwich City. The Carabao Cup first-round fixtures will be played...

They have helped fund AFC Wimbledon’s home and Norwich City’s academy - but are football club bond schemes worth the risk for supporters?

Charlton Athletic’s takeover saga is finally drawing to an end after the League One club confirmed they have signed an agreement with SE7 Partners, the Anglo-American group that thought it had a deal to buy the club in December only for it to collapse in February. Put together by former Sunderland director Charlie Methven but financed by two American investors, Gabriel Brener and Joshua Friedman, SE7’s original plan was to buy 90 per cent of the club from current owner Thomas Sandgaard for £8.5million, with the US-based Danish entrepreneur retaining a 10 per cent stake. But Sandgaard...