Beach Balls & Coffins: What The F*** Happened At Charlton Athletic?
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2020
- Roland Duchatelet is likely to go down in history as the worst owner that Charlton Athletic football club ever had. This is the story behind his dreadful ‘regime’ and how determined fans fought to get their club back.
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What needs to be done to stop this happening in the future? 🤔
EFL are a joke too corrupt to care about doing checks on owners Duchatelet has a history of killing football clubs the EFL only cares about their money and self interests
National legislation to stop the abuse of club ownership.
I have no idea how this would work in practice. What I do know is this has gone on too long with too many clubs.
FA ownership Rules need to be reformed
Fit & proper tests. Organisations need to step in to an extent but can’t completely payoff the debt of course.
Background checks of protental club owners. If the owner has a club ownership history that is too crooked, he's not welcome at a club of his choosing.
"Taking advice from a 22 years old scout who used Football Manager and CZcams to make decisions"
Literally me : /
nocunoct well, expect interest from him.
I can confirm (9:30) that's exactly how he's regarded in Belgium as(s)well.
Greetings from Belgium, and well done lads.
8:08 my best day ever. Burnley won championship and went 23 undefeated after a 3:0 to charlton. Then we stormed pitch at end of game and protested with them
And trust me its not been forgotten, always look to see how Burnley are doing
@Martin England fkn lol
@@manlikemark9641 mainly doing shit
@Martin England don't think any of them give a damn about that.....
Still remember your fans ripping down the net that was in front of the north lower to help us get on the pitch. Thank you for your support that day I'm sure most at cafc will remember it.
All the best for Charlton from Pompey fan.
PUP
COYR
Fuck off u skate bastard
Cheers mate
As a saints fan, I think we should all stand together against shit owners
From an Orient fan I’m so glad to see Charlton with new owners, we nearly went under and I’m glad to see them *hopefully* stabilising now, also they’re welcome for Macauley Bonne
Thanks pal, I’m glad to see you lot back in the football league it was hard as a football fan to see you in non league but with new owners who care and your club back on the up it’s good to see. Hopefully we have a new start now and stabilise ourselves in the championship and hopefully you never know get back to the premier league soon. Oh yeah and thanks for Macca he’s a baller⚽️
Macauley is quality
@Viz when
Viz you beat us before we could spend any money . Rn we have loans , next season it’s on
I'm a West Ham fan and I feel for Charlton because I know there fans are very passionate and they deserve better.
So do West Ham. It killed the club moving from your home.
Gonna do a Charlton Athletic FIFA Career mode now 👍🏻
FM is better mate
Good luck mate we are dreadful in that game
Nall Watson I did this. Charlton plays now in the Champions League 😂
@@jakobmanga7812 wanna be our new manager? 😂
Mbappe to Charlton confirmed
Can people please not compare this to any of the prem owners like Ashley and Kronke. I’m an orient fan and honestly they’re incomparable to the situations owners put my club and clubs like Charlton Blackpool Macclesfield and so many more in
trust me - i think Newcastle can be put along the same bracket. we suffered way too long.
Alfie Sobell Davis thanks for Bonne 😊
@@calvinlee9252 No you haven't, you're still in the premier league, you've still got money. you've been given a financial base which has kept the club stable if stagnant, It's not ideal making absolutely no progress but at least they aren't *using* your club to feed a bigger one like a vampire
@@calvinlee9252 did you not spend over like 70 million in the summer lol
@@calvinlee9252
Reality you haven't suffered at all, compare yourself to say Bolton or Portsmouth, you've suffered 2 relegations and bounced straight back up first time asking. Playing championship football with strikers on 50k a week in 09/10. If Ashley was half as bad as you make out, he would have absolutely stripped the club. And only this summer you splashed out 40mill or w.e on Joelinton fs look at the state and where your rivals are. You don't have it bad.
I wonder who put the one dislike there cough cough is that you Roland 😂
Possibly a Millwall or Crystal Palace fan
kroenke's time is coming soon as well
My uncle was a Charlton season ticket holder for years, and it's sad to see the club ended up in such a dire position. All the best for the future
Glad to see Charlton have finally gotten rid of that virus. Would like to see a video on my club Coventry next
4 hour video then?
You lot went through years of bad times, hope things are better now.
@@goonerman6370 lmao it would probs take 4 hours, unfortunately things are still shit, we are ground sharing again, that's right, again.. second ground share within a decade, this time in Birmingham at St. Andrews, however we have been going through a decent season atm, currently 3rd in league 1 and the team is top notch.
Robins has been doing a good job with us and has stuck with us through thick and thin, just not playing in Coventry again, SISU (our owners) still running rampant but our corrupt council and the wasps are to blame aswell, so its currently 3 on 1 here, just hoping we can get back to our ground and get rid of our backward owners.. I could go on...
virus you say?
What happened to Charlton and continues to happen to Coventry City with unfit and disgraceful owners only shows the FA and EFL are failing supporters and their communities.
Glad to see Charlton have got rid of that parasite.
Wouldn't mind playing them again
I'm a Blackpool fan and I've been up and down the country following them. I very fond memories of Charlton, as an away day it was one of my favourites. I studied down South and we played them just after Christmas. Thought I'd take the supporters coach down to London as it was cheaper than getting the train back to University. Had quite a few pub stops on the way and by the time the game kicked off I was way past tipsy. I remember getting out of the ground at the end of the game and not having any idea how to get to Kings Cross so I could get my train to Cambridge. A few Charlton fans went out of their way to make sure I got to the station safely. I have a lot of respect for that, London is a scary place for a Northerner, especially one too drunk to know his way. We lost the game but I still hold it as one of the best away trips I've done. Fans make the difference. From a club that has also suffered awful owners, I wish you all the luck in getting back to your best. Top fans, good luck with your fight!
As a charlton fan, This makes me happy to see that not only us seen this as a turn of an era.
We’ve come so far. We did it we won like we always do. Wouldn’t wish the last fives years on any football club. We got Roland out! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Lucky 😓
And we got Sangard in!!!!
West Brom fan here. Yeah I wondered what was going on for yous all this time. Thanks for explaining.
Best of luck sorting yourselves out. Hope good times lie ahead.
G Rid cheers, good luck on Saturday 🔴⚪️
We are going through it all again at the moment. It's never ending!
Well done Charlton, from Chelsea fan 🍻
Charlton fans have a sense of pride like no other. Our fans raised over £1m in the early 90's to contribute to the rebuild of the Valley, a time when people were struggling to pay their mortgages. Charlton fans ARE the club and always will be, no matter what owners come and go.
Loving these kind of videos when you guys go in depth behind the scenes of a club.
My first match at Charlton I was 4 and we were (if I remember correctly) in our last season in the prem we went through some hard times ( at the age of 16 I was one of the many to go to Sint Truiden in Belgium) but now we are back and it can only go up from here! Come on you Reds!
Respect from denmark 💪😀 you are true fans ❤🤍🇩🇰
As a man united fan, you have my utmost respect ✊
@No Yes Leave him alone mate. He's paying respect.
@No Yes manchester cannot house ever united fan, you would have a immigration crisis
@No Yes show us on the doll where man united touched you.
All the best to Charlton as a Genk fan, the biggest rivals of Sint-Truiden
we got our charlton back🔴⚪️
Lol ur 19th
@@mitchyard7153 new owners only just came in
WE GOT OUR CHARLTON BACK!
That aged well
@@benmountfield1901 just like milk
Arsenal Fans need to learn from this and take decisive action against the Kroenkes. It's inspiring to see fans organising themselves and fighting back in a era where clubs are losing their souls to big money capitalists.
Lol good luck. Im a gooner but could you ever imagine such a thing happening? Arsenal has long been a money club, with no ties to the local community, most fans aren't from the surrounding area having moved out of Finsbury park and Highbury due to insane house prices. The days of Highbury are long gone, nowadays our plastic support is more interested in internet fame than about creating and protecting a solid identity around a club. Saddens me but it's what money and social media does to the world. Erosion of local values and a solid identity.
@@Quincycle this
As long as Arsenal turns in a profit, which it does due to its massive fanbase, Kroenke won't give a fuck about what happens on the pitch. The only way you'll ever get rid of him is if you decided to boycott games, not buy any merch and so on, but if the real fans won't buy the tickets, Chinese tourists will and Kroenke won't even be able to tell the difference. Doubt that yank even knows the rules of the game, or of any game, for that matter, given the fact that he runs his American franchises in pretty much the same way. Football isn't business, the Bundesliga 50+1 rule should be applied in every league
Giulesteanul As an American my self, yeah, he is incompetent. He stole his team from my city too. We loved our Rams, and he moved them from St. Louis to LA (across the nation) because his profits weren’t big enough, as he put it. He’s a monster, but Quincycle is right. He doesn’t care about his teams. His team basically plays all road games, but his seats are still being filled, just by everyone else. We were not even aware he was going to move us. He did this all under the table. God help Arsenal fans, even though he forgot to help St. Louis.
No. I'm an Arsenal fan and my dad is a Charlton fan. They do not compare. Roland was 10x worse than the Kroenkes are.
25th of May 1998 Wembley Stadium...... I was a 14 year old school boy...... My dad, born a stones throw from the ground, Charlton through and through. I never really knew what it meant to have a club in your blood... but that day I learnt it. Standing on the seat behind Saša Ilić’s Goal when Clive Mendonca scored in extra time to take it to penalties..... no feeling like it. Still remember it like it was yesterday... My father sill has Mendonca on his car key ring.... not his 3 grandchildren... hahaha. I sincerely wish the Addicks all the best for the future. Thanks for the memories. Hopefully Wembley isn’t to far off once again..... I owe my dad a ticket.
Stephen A watched the game in Spain with my two young sons,that’s your team playing I told them ,years later was at Wembley with with them,when second goal went in ,just unbelievable
Good luck Charlton
Burnley fan
Charlton has been my club for years, and it will stay that way, but Roland ripped the heart of our football club.
Thanks for this, COPA90! Hopefully the nightmare is over, we can stay in the Championship this season and better times can return. Great to see fans of many other clubs commenting positively, especially those who have been or are still in similar dire straits (Pompey, Brighton, Blackpool, Bury etc). COYA!
All of a sudden, Roland Duchatelet and Katrien Miere don't look so bad, do they?
Charlton is literally Harchester United from Dream Team
I went to the Valley to watch my club (villa) play Charlton in the late 90s and I have to say it did have some atmosphere!!
At RodaJC Kerkrade we had an owner named Mauricio Garcia de la Vega. He didnt pay for the club and used the clubs money to go to hotels and fancy diners. Our Ultras shut a grandstand down and at halftime went to the owners seat and they kicked him out of the stadium (Literally picked him up and pushed him out).
Content like this makes me want to watch your channel again after Poet & Vikas left you. Great stuff!
Great video. This didn't get much coverage up here in Scotland. I'm visiting London in February so I'm going to head to The Valley to lend my support in a small way.
Congrats and respect from Újpest!
Good luck with getting rid of him
Hopefully soon our club is the only one never been relegated from Hungarian first division 💜 I also lived in Charlton area for 3years and been a regular supporter at the Valley . I moved back but Charlton will be forever in my heart ✌️
Great mini-doc, thanks for this! Make sure you do a 'Buried alive' one for us as well 😂😭
Sounds like it’s mike Ashley long lost brother
Mike Ashley is weak tea compared to Duchatalet
Mike Ashley is a god send when you compare him to a majority of owners in English football
Roland is way worse
COPA90 is genuinely one of the most entertaining channels ever, the derby days etc. love it, just need to do a derby day for Devon next ;)
Cambridge fan here. Hard to imagine we stand above Charlton in the league
Watched the COPA90 Leyton Orient documentary a few years ago and it still sends shivers down my spine. But I also feel for Charlton fans as well. Just goes to show that everything starts from the top when it comes to professional teams.
Man Utd going that way. Well done Charlton Athletic true supporters getting your club back ! 👍
I really respect and admire these fans!
Great video. Been a Charlton fan for 10 years and the Roland era has to been the worst. Hope this owner will care about this amazing club they we all know and love
Respect from Green Boys #Morocco
They linked up with another fans of a different team to do a protest, that said alot about the incompetency of the owner running these clubs.
Also, that funeral and the taxi...thats gold!
Always had a soft spot for Charlton Great respect to you and hope you get your club back. Spurs fan.
Well played Charlton I hope that the new owner cares about the club and the fans that support the club through thick and thin and gets you the results and enjoyment of watching football you deserve 👍👍
Dude English football has had a lot of bad owners ruin some very historic clubs and it keeps happening. Its the worst ive ever seen in sports period. Leyton Orient, Bury, Bolton, Wimbledon, Charlton, Hull City, Coventry, etc. Just so many, EFL has got to do more so this wont happen. I think they should really look at how German clubs are ran with the fans being directly part of the club, pretty much how AFC Wimbledon came to be as the only fan ran club in England going off the German model. I think it can really stop this mess going on. Hopefully Bury fans do what Wimbledon did and one day come back as a new club.
German model? Like Hamburg or Kaiserslautern? LOL
It’s really depressing to see how these people can just walk into a club without anyone knowing that they are just gonna ruin it
Great vid...from a Leeds fan
@copa90 there’s got to be another on the drama of matt southall surely. The charlton story in the last 5 years has been incredible
Got our club back, CAFC
It's saddening to see what happened to Charlton. It's also good to have this inside view because I had been admiring Duchatelet as a business man and politician. He's a very smart man and has bright, novel ideas, which worked in the micro-electronics business, which could work in politics if the system had not protected itself and which I thought were not completely daft in football. But as we've seen many times before, football is a very particular area of socio-economics, where even lots of money don't always buy success: look at what's happening to Man United despite the Glazer's money.
His downfall in football - he stepped out of all the clubs he owned - is due to an incredible hybris, failing to adapt to the particularities of football and clubs, appointing caretaker managers and coaching staff at random, unexperienced and foreign to the country, and thinking he could simply shift people around until the puzzle fell into place. He disregarded the identity of all the clubs he owned, reducing them to pawns on his chessboard. It didn't work and it didn't go down very well.
But, in essence, the idea itself is not stupid. Red Bull has grown a similar holding, buying and rebranding local clubs, moving around staff and players, building a system that combines financial success with technical development. The owners of Brighton, Leicester, ... have also been buying clubs - notably Belgium - to stall players which need some experience or exposure, however much less interfering with the day-by-day management. Duchatelet's idea has shown to work but he failed to engage competent leaders to execute upon it and gain the necessary buy-in from every local faction. He was either micromanaging or having things done by hand puppets like Meire. It remains baffling how a smart man like him turned into a total failure at managing clubs.
This is something United fans can learn from, but we’re too busy fighting each other.
Lmao XD
As a Liverpool fan this is hilarious 😆
iwantgoals 15 Glazers are nothing compared to most of these cases
Aidan Toner Are they not? Don’t mean to sound arrogant but let’s not forget that they’re running arguably the worlds biggest club into the ground.
@@iwantgoals1566 No they're not. The club is profitable. Stop living in fantasy land just because things on the pitch aren't ideal right now.
limericklad2000 I’m not though. Go all the way back to 2009 and you can see how the club has been in decline from then. Replacing Ronaldo with Valencia, Obertan and Owen and forcing Fergie to lie to the fans. Replacing David Gill with Woodward, being more obsessed about money than the club or the fans. Lack of repair to the stadium. Do I need to spell it out for you? It’s like taking a club the size of Barca and Madrid and running them into the ground, what part of that do you not understand?
EVERY SATURDAY WE FOLLOW THE BOYS IN RED AND WHITE
Umm you mean: “claret and blue” 😂 just kidding UTV and UTC
Cm News charlton has a special place in my heart and so does West Ham
Henry Osmani Yeah the valley is a true arena one of the greats real tension and compassion in the air
And now we got lee BOWYER
Jude Ashmore CAFC Vlogs and Rants Were fucking dynamite
Absolutely class video
Very similar to what's happening at my club Oldham Athletic, dire times indeed.
This guy wanted to "invest" in my club in 2012, Im happy that didnt go trough.
We are now in top devision of the Netherlands, after 16 years of nearly bankruptcy and heartbreaks.
Im happy to hear hes out of the club!
Good luck Charlton!
A club is just as big as their fans are, without "us" no club can prevail!
Welke club?
I'm Belgian , and i say go ahead , you have my support to protest owners like him out who are not there to help or progress clubs , their fans and community.
As a Newcastle Fan....i am very concern on what will happen to my club in the future😥
good luck charlton hope it works out for you steve whufc
Fascinating - not a Charlton fan so I only knew the outline of what went on. This is very informative.
I miss clubs like Charlton in the prem :(
amazzing content from copa90 once again, but very sad to see charlton athletic in this state.
Great vid.
Great to see Charlton with new owners. Good luck for the future Regards Steve, Derby.
All the best from a terriers fan💙 as much as we may all be ‘rivals’ we should all be standing together as we all have a roll in English football & all have that history that’s made what we are today⚽️⚽️
4:04 Blimey! John Barnes has changed since his playing days!
Great research and depth to this. The worrying thing is just how more of this mad ownership and their calamitous tenure could have been included to this video! Katrien Meire has got off lightly here. UP THE CHARLTON!
6:10 that kid with Glasses is me 🔴⚪🔴
THE BEST SUPPORTERS IN LONDON!! ♥
What an unexpected year that was!
Brilliant video
As a chelsea fan, charlton shouldn't deserve this it's the owner's fault that the club is going under in the EFL
#SaveTheAddicks
Awesome good luck in the future with new management
When we went down to charlton it was like nothing I’ve ever seen both sides joined together against their owners
loved it
well done Charlton lads! all the best from Denmark.
Albion fan loved Charlton away few years back!!
Can you do one of these videos on Coventry city
Risha was smoking hot 🔥🔥🔥🤷🏽♂️
All Charlton fans are. 😉😉
What’s her Instagram?
Xx AltDiv she an above average looking girl. Internet hasn’t changed in 30 year. Still full of virgins.
Newtus minder the internet has only been available to the public for 20 years lmao
@@t2p Year 2000?
1992 was when I heard about it.
well done charlton for grabbing yourself a new owner. now it's up to west ham to do the same.#GSBOUT
Manchester United fan here. I look forward to seeing Charlton Athletic back in the top flight again. Hope all works out for you guys
Update: it looks good now
I started going to Charlton in 1975 and we have basically been fighting for our very survival ever since apart from the 7 years of top flight football. It's never ending! February 2023 and we are going through it all again.
Being a lifelong STVV-fan myself, it all sounds very familiar. Attendances dwindling, atmosphere gone, good players being sold below market prices mid-season. After Duchatelet the club has been bought by Japanese owners who continue to make the same mistakes. Result: even lower attendances, even less atmosphere, this club has no soul left. I'd rather have them relegated to the lower leagues and start fresh than to have this circus go on.
That was shocking, after this team was in the EPL when I was introduced to soccer back in '06 now virtually invisible in the English football scene.
Had some class run ins with the addicks over the last few years as a luton fan and I hope you guys get your club back.
''be careful what you wish for'' Sep 2023, how true this was.
Wish we would do something like this, good on you charlton
Do one about Red Star FC in France
Charlton fans making me proud to be an English football fan.
I'm not a Charlton fan but I hope the new owners and the fans will bring their club back
This wretched story is happening with ever increasing frequency. The problem is, what is a workable alternative other than winding up or merging clubs in an over-saturated live football marketplace?
We played there with Feyenoord,about 15 years ago...never give up!
WE GOT ARE CHARLTON BACK
WE GOT ARE CHARLTON BACK
That is not the Upjest symbol. Even the fans don't want it
I find it sad that it does not come to the mind of these fine people that the normal thing is to own your own club.
We need to bring back power to the normal fans!
Jesus Christ, yoooooo, some club owners are taking the piss!!! What the hell is this Roland guy doing, he's out here taking the piss out of all Charlton fans.
Up the Addicks
Good to see 1 of London's greatest club back in a good state again!