The Telegraph interview with Garry Cook

"Is he a nice guy? Yes. Is he a great guy to play golf with? Yes. Has he got the finances to run a club? Yes. I really care about those three things. I need a left-back who can win tackles, get the crosses in and Jo can bang them in. Whether he’s guilty of something over there, I can’t worry too much about."

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Quite a revealing interview with Henry Winter in The Telegraph which covers a range of topics - from what Thaksin is really like, long term plans for the club (and its financing), the pursuit of Ronaldinho and some very, very interesting thoughts on the future of the Premier League.

(Unsurprisingly) it provides a defence of Thaksin and gives a glimpse into his relationship with Mark Hughes - something which will hardly dampen the rumours with regards to transfer disharmony over the past couple of weeks:

"I’m not treating them like a commodity but in the two transfer windows everybody is for sale,”We told Mark not to come if he thought we didn’t need a superstar. Mark wants to challenge himself to manage the best footballers in the world.

But Mark is from the old school. He would rather overpay for the player he knows than for the player where he’s relying on scouting reports. That’s an endearing piece of what Mark is all about."

Well worth a read indeed.

More love for Sven

In todays Telegraph, from Don Howe, who was one of the doom merchants at the start of the season who have now have had to somewhat eat their words.

Kudos for me also a little bit, as in my season preview for OleOle, I said to look out for a media u-turn as far as Sven was confirmed, and it is amazing how quickly he has gone from persona non grata as far as the press corps were concerned to tactical genius who has gelled a side together in a matter of no time.

City in the community article

One thing the club have had a lot of kudos for - and rightly so, is the work that they do and links that they have established throughout the community.

The Telegraph profiled some of this today, and also looked on a wider scale at the effect that hosting the 2002 Commonwealth games had on the club and Manchester as a whole.

Charlton 1 City 0

I've not caught anything from Saturday's game apart from the reports I've picked up today, but although it appears it was a much improved away performance ultimately it was the same end result and we slip back towards the relegation zone.

Rather than a report then, I've linked to a selection of the some of the match reports:

Pearce still gloomy as awful away form add misery - The Independent

Bent gets straight to the points - The Guardian

Bent and Carson prove worth to Charlton - The Telegraph

NetAddicks match report

MEN match report

Sky Sports match report