Charlton Athletic Online

Stalin may have been able to do it with Russia and the Soviet Union and get away with it, but it seems that others are now trying to re-write history, and the history of English football at that! Here's an example of something found on the web today!

"Joe McLaughlin - Head Soccer Consultant
Joe McLaughlin's experience at the professional level is unparelled, and has had over 20 years playing experience as a professional with Morton, Chelsea, Charlton, Watford, Falkirk, Hibernian, Clydebank and St Mirren. He was a Scotland National U'21 player after being selected by Scotland and Celtic legend, Jock Stein.

During his career, Joe enjoyed seven years as captain of Chelsea FC where he led the team to the English League Championship. He was bought by Charlton for a record transfer fee of £600,000 in the early 1990's, and then was bought again for another transfer record of £500,000 to Watford.

Joe was appointed 'Player Coach' at St Mirren FC, and assisted in their promotion to the Scottish Premier League. He was then brought into the Millwall FC coaching staff by Manager Mark McGhee, and appointed Head Reserve Coach, where he worked with the Youth and First team players at the club.

Joe will be responsible for the assessment of players for FirstPoint, and will assist in their placement to college soccer programs in the USA."

Now, I thought that Chelsea won the Premiership (or the equivalent of Englands top division) for the first time in fifty years last season...but apparently this US website claims that the division Chelsea won in the eighties (ie the second division) was in fact the the "English League Championship".

I think that Charlton can actually lay claim to have won the "English League Championship" in 2000/2001, when it was the top non-Premiership league, but that certainly wasn't the case with Chelsea way back then!

Another anomaly is that Joe certainly played one season for Charlton, but did not sign in the early nineties - he played 37 games in season 1989/90 - and did not live up to his high reputation; Charlton were relegated that season.

We all know that Jose has a mind to mentally adjust results - as he has done with the Everton, Charlton, and Blackburn scores and results recently - but it seems that others with Chelsea connections are starting to do it too!

I can see a trend here...Joe S, Joe Mc, and Jo-se!