Charlton Athletic F.C.

Charlton Athletic Football Club are a football club from southeast London. The club was founded in 1905 and currently plays at The Valley in Charlton.

Charlton fans

Charlton are rare among football clubs, in that they reserve a seat on their director's board for a supporter. Any season ticket holder can put themselves forward for election, with a certain number of nominations, and votes are cast by all season ticket holders over the age of 18.

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Charlton's fans are known as The Addicks. Among the theories on the etymology of the name are that 1), it comes from the fact that Charlton in their early days at the Valley were part sonsored by a fishmonger and he offered a "'addock dinner" after the game to players and opposition. According to A.V Carter the said fishmonger advertised his wares by having a fish on a stick, walking up and down the touch line; or, 2) it is a southeast London form of Addict (which seems unlikely).

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The team's home kit is red, and they always come on to the pitch at The Valley to the tune of "When the Red, Red Robin Goes Bob-, bob- bobbin' along" this is a popular Billy Cotton song from the 1930's.

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