Addicks axe real turkey

“MERRY Christmas, Les. You’re sacked.”

Ridiculous, wasn’t it? Ten days after he’d been given a three-year contract, forty-eight hours after a public assurance from the Charlton chairman that his job wasn’t under threat, Les Reed was dismissed.

And don’t believe this tosh about leaving “by mutual consent.” That’s football speak for reaching agreement over the ‘pay-off’ and poor Reed, I gather, was far from being well-paid by Premiership standards. He’s gone very cheaply.