Jackson Scored for #CAFC on Saturday

No you read the title correctly, he did really score on Saturday.  Let me explain.  For those of you who don’t use twitter #CAFC is the moniker that Charlton fans use to follow the trials and tribulations of our football club. 

While we are ferociously defensive about its use we are not the only ones to use it.

First is Crick Athletic Football Club, (www.clubwebsite.co.uk/crickathleticfc), who ply their trade in the Coventry Alliance Football League.  Their man of the match, Loz Jackson (rather than Charlton’s injured skipper Johnny Jackson) actually scored two goals for them on Saturday to give them a 4-1 hammering over local rivals Rugby FC.

Secondly, Crewe Alexander football club also use the same  hash tag, much to the chagrin of their southern counterparts in the Championship.  However yesterday I am sure that many of us Addicks would have forgiven them.  In an act that I am sure any follower of English football would like to see, they used a full side of players who had graduated from their academy to record an historic 2-0 victory over Walsall (www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22278754).  We are very proud of our academy set up at Charlton and it was pleasing to see another team grow and nurture their home grown players and they should be congratulated for the achievement.

Finally, and I bet you didn't see this one coming, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also use the hashtag #CAFC.  This court deals with appeals on patents and publish links to their judgements on Twitter.  Their findings don’t normally appear on many Charlton fan’s searches as they tend to post around 3pm UK time on a weekday when most of us are hard at work and not necessarily thinking about football (as if!).  Thank goodness for that I hear you say, but just imagine those who do want to find them having to trawl through football tweets such as “We’re going to get slaughtered without Hughes and Jackson”, and "I'm an animal lover, except Millwall of course"

Well back to Saturday’s game, and while I know at 2-0 up we were all desperately willing for a playoff place.  Alas it was not to be but in our heart of hearts we should all very pleased with what by any stretch of the imagination has been a fine performance at the back end of the season ands we are all proud of what the club has achieved on a limited budget.

Finally, while we can’t beat the 100 odd fans from Hartlepool who turned up as penguins for the match against Crawley, I have to salute all those fans who donned Chris Powell masks for our last away match of the season and would like to share the marvellous picture below from @benjicafc



Anyone look familiar?


Update
Crick were kind enough to point out to me that their captain is actually James Smith rather than Los Jackson as the article previously stated.