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Out of the frying pan and into the crossfire

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The LeaguePaper Team
15 March 2020

Chris Dunlavy

CHARLTON Athletic are rarely far from a crisis. Never, though, has optimism dissolved into despair so rapidly. Hailed as saviours when they deposed the reviled Roland Duchatelet in November, owners Tahnoon Nimer and Matt Southall are already making Addicks fans feel nostalgic for the Belgian miser.
Duchatelet, whilst reluctant to put his hand in his pocket, was at least demonstrably loaded. As Nimer and Southall’s spectacular public spat demonstrates, it is increasingly unclear whether the new owners have any cash at all. And that could be far worse. Positivity ran...

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