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WHEN BLACK FRIDAY BECAME PURE GOLD FOR ADDICKS FANS

BLACK Friday? Not for Charlton supporters. The departure of reviled owner Roland Duchatelet is one of the most golden moments in the Addicks’ history.
For the first time in five years, a club routinely subjected to swingeing cuts can dream of progress. For Duchatelet, it is the end of a costly experiment.
Indeed, as the Belgian hands control to the Abu Dhabi-backed East Street, it is worth reflecting on why he failed so spectacularly.
Duchatelet believed that a lower league football club could be run as a profitable business and still achieve success through streamlining and clever re...

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