My tank is too empty after that to write a report here. Suffice to say, the travelling support today was fantastic and just shy of 4,000 in the ground is a new record for Charlton.
Without serious strengthening Charlton will struggle next season in WSL1; without a change of direction Leicester will struggle next season to get out of WSL2.
Daughter and I are on the early Fox Travel coach tomorrow from Leicester. After a slow start, it’s pleasing that the club did support the fixture and, when I looked last, it appears tickets/coaches are well booked to support the team.
Charlton were top of the WSL2 table for a lot of the season, conceded the fewest goals in the league, have been used to winning and lost only four matches all campaign. Leicester? Well, we’re not used to winning, particularly away from home.
Time to see if the WSL1/2 gulf in quality cliché is true. I’m not as confident as I’d like to be. 😬🦊⚽️
In his press conference ahead the Chelsea defeat, manager Rick Passmoor suggested that the club hierarchy were just leaving the women’s team to get on with things. Seems to me the club have now entirely forgotten about the women’s team.
The most important game in the women’s team’s recent history, the WSL relegation play off away at Charlton Athletic, is in 11 days’ time. It’s the only opportunity the club has left to salvage something from this bin-fire of a season.
So… where are the tickets?
Where is the rallying call?
Where is the email to supporters?
Where is the bus travel to pack out The Valley and cheer on the women’s team to help them maintain their WSL status?
Where is there any acknowledgment whatsoever on the LCFC website that this existential match is even taking place?
Head over to the Charlton website and you can’t miss the fixture. Tickets for Charlton fans have been on sale since shortly after the fixture was confirmed. Season ticket holders were offered two free tickets. Hospitality tickets discounted to £25. Bring drinks to your seats is being trialled.
Can anybody help me to understand Leicester’s head-in-the-sand approach to this fixture? Why is the club not even doing the basics necessary to support the women’s team - like acknowledging the fixture or selling actual tickets?
This begins to feel less a case of “leaving the women’s team to get on with it” and more a case of deliberate sabotage.