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Charlton Athletic is the nearest football league club to the Grenwich Meridian and subsequently is always blessed by the Pope when he visits the UK.

charlton athletic were originally nicknamed the addicts in honour of the good folk of saaf london, they rebranded themselves in 1994.

Greenwich has more transgendered people per capita than any other area of the UK.

The old Valley had the highest terracing at any ground in England.

from the top of that terracing on a sunny day you could see france, fact.

Charlton supporters have the uk's smallest penises, this is due to an insular type of evolution, which has seen their arses grow double the normal size, due to the amount of talking done out of them.

Bert Jackman, who is Charlton's oldest supporter at 102 years old, still masturbates twice before every home game and is too afraid break this superstition.

Greenwich, due to its time allegiances is twinned with Hill valley, California the setting of the documentary trilogy Back to the Future. Fact.

The first ever McDonalds to open in the UK was in Woolwich.

FACT!!

The first match played at the old Valley was in September 1919. In 1923 Charlton moved to The Mount Stadium in Catford as part of a proposed merger with Catford Southend Football Club.

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A recent poll of fans of the 91 Premiership and League clubs (the filthy Franchise doesn't count, so their 'fans' were not asked) awarded the title of Most Pain in the Arse Ground to Get To to the Valley.  A trip there by public transport from anywhere outside the M25 requires at least 7 changes and 5 different modes of transport.  And it's worse for car drivers.  One group that set off from Leicester in 1992 is reported still to be negotiating the Blackwall Tunnel Approach.

Another accolade that Charlton vies for, along with Crystal Palace, is Most Nondescript London Suburb.  This is always a closely fought contest.

Charlton Athletic were originally a ditch pole vault team that only switched to football when the Thames got too wide.  
The Baldicoot family from Ashington in Northumberland were so impressed with Charlton winning Division 3 in 1929 they changed their name by deed poll - both Bobby and Jackie went on to win world cup winning medals with England in 1966 - FACT

According to a football league survey, Charlton are the most family of all the family clubs, and have banned any fans who do not have facepaint on from attending the home leg of the Play-offs - FACT

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Every time a Charlton fan claps a child dies in Rwanda. This is known as the Valiant Recurrence

Charlton was founded in 1997, replacing a former identical settlement which was, coincidentally, also named Charlton.

Re-arranging the letters in Charlton gives you Talc Horn which, coincidentally, is what their players get after they've pampered themselves post match.

Due to a bizzare timeline issue in the vicinity of the Greenwich meridian, half of the ground at the Valley occupies a different time zone to that of the other half. This phenomonon is only seen here and at Old Trafford, where the time is always ten minutes behind when Man Utd are in the opposition half. The quirk of the Valley is that the line bends around the stands, meaning that the home fans are all sat in 1956, while away fans and the pitch take place in the present day. FACT.

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In the 80's Charlton had a major crime problem 90% of wich can be attributed to Fenella the Kettle Witch.

Beat me to it Batch!  Their fans are known as the Wheelies!

According to sources at Millwall football club, all Charlton fans are from Kent!

Did't they used to bus them in from kent years ago ?

Yes, and From Gillingham wherever that is, france i think.

Charlton Athletic was the first football club to have a drummer on their terraces.

Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, a Charlton fan since childhood, learned to drum at home games and would bring an entire drumkit along. His half-time drum solos are the stuff of Charlton legend.

The first known footballer with webbed feet was a charlton athletic player George Swan.Apart from the piss takes from his team mates,opposition teams saw it as an unfair advantage, as they thought his paddled feet gave him extra power in his shot.
he was shit, so it didn't matter.the teams complaints soon turned to piss takes along with his own charlton colleagues.he was last seen jumping off tower bridge.

Charlton Athletic were originally named Kent County FC and played their football in the fair county of Kent. Having played an away match in East London, the team got lost on the way home. Having spent hours trying to find their way out of London they eventually gave up and decided it would be easier to relocate the club.

It is a little known FACT that Charlton's ground, The Valley, is twinned with upmarket suburb of the same name in Penhill, Swindon.

Before the last ice age and the consequential effects of glacial drift on the Thames basin Charlton played their home games at the Alley.

Charlton Athletic started as an athletic club, but after breaking down on the way to a meeting, decided to have a kickabout, and they decided to form a football club instead.

Charlton Athletic started off named Woolwich Athletic but changed their club name as an homage to the Charlton brothers after England winning the 1966 world cup.

Alan Curbishley didn't realise that he was Charlton Athletic manager until his 7th year in charge.

Charlton score late goals against swindon in the league, but not the play-offs, FACT!

Charltons fans never got involved in hooliganism,this annoyed the players so much that in a fa cup game two of thier own players derek hales and mike flanagan tried to show the fans how to fight,hales got sent off making him the hardest man ever from charlton.

Charlton were formed by brothers Bobby and Jack many moons ago...in most early teamshots players were forced to comb there hair over any bald patches.

Charlton were originally known as Devonton in recognition of Devon Malcolm getting his 100th first class wicket.  When Charl Langeveldt achieved the feat, they decided to honour him instead.