|  Nickname:
The Addicks
Year formed: 1905
Ground: The Valley
Capacity: 27,111 2007/08
average: 23,159
For visitors: 3,000 in the Jimmy
Seed (South) Stand
Record attendance:
75,031
Position last season: 11th
in the Championship
Manager: Alan Pardew (December
2006)
Players in: Mark
Hudson (Crystal Palace, free), Stuart
Fleetwood (Forest Green, free)
Players out: Patrick
McCarthy (Crystal Palace, free), Osei
Sankofa (Southend, free)
Key man: Zheng Zhi
Record transfer fee paid:
£4.75m (Jason Euell, Wimbledon,
2001)
Record transfer fee received:
£16.5m (Darren Bent, Spurs,
2007)
 Ticket
office: 0871 226 1905
Ticket prices: Adults
£20, Over 60's and Under 21s
£15, Under 18's £10
Official website: www.cafc.co.uk
Journey:
114 miles
Journey time: 2hr
17mins
For directions to the ground click
here
Best League Win:
8-1 v Middlesbrough 12/09/1953 Division
1
Last meeting:
Norwich City 1, Charlton Athletic
1 (December 26, 2007): Charlton's
Sam Sodje was shown a straight red
for a two-footed lunge on Darel Russell.
Having taken the lead just nine minutes
earlier through Zheng Zhi, who left
Gary Doherty on his backside before
firing in a shot that David Marshall
should probably have saved, Charlton
had tried to get back into the game,
but a resilient City refused to be
pushed about. There is only so much
a defence can take before it begins
to creak, and when Russell got his
head to Darren Huckerby’s corner
on 73 minutes, City finally broke
through and got the goal that their
efforts deserved. Full
Match Report
Last Norwich
away win: 25/09/1991 Charlton
0, Norwich 2 (Gordon,
Newman)
Chances: Most expected Charlton
to go up last season after relegation,
but some awful form after Christmas
put piad to their chances and sees
Pardew under a bit of pressure. Plenty
of attacking firepower with the likes
of Luke Varney and Andy Gray but the
Addicks tend to be very inconsistent.
Chinese midfielder Zheng Zhi was a
star for them and if they are not
pushing the top spots come January
he could off – as could Pardew.
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