Old friends and foes A couple of interesting stories regarding old Addicks and their foes.

Following in the wake of Niall Quinn, Back to the Valley star Lee Power has been named Conference side Cambridge United's new chairman. I don't expect for a minute Power gathered the wealth that Quinn did from the game but I wonder how many more of the modern day players will go into the ownership game as opposed to management or the media. Back in the 70's it used to be common for old-pro's to go into running boozers.

Talking of chairman, old Palarse fool Mark Goldberg has turned up as manager of Bromley. Goldberg cleverly spunked £40m of his own money making Palarse a force in the English game, oh hang on that's not right..... Anyway, his brother-in-law is Chairman of Bromley and decided young Mark needed a helping hand. Article here from The Times.

I also read with interest yesterday that someone called Danny Murphy is on his way to Portsmouth after playing just 1o games for Spurs. Didn't he once play for Liverpool? Wow, how the mighty have fallen?

It has been nice to see Dowie put more emphasis on youth, but one of those that got away was Danny Shittu, who yesterday signed for Watford for an initial fee of £1.6m, which could rise to £3m. I once remember seeing him being interviewed early in his career and the reporter asked him absurdly if that was "really his surname."

"It is," he replied, "but you can call me Big Dan." I actually tried to sponsor his shirt once, when he first got into the 1st team squad, but someone had beaten me to it.

And finally in Curbs' book "The Valley of Dreams," he is said to exclusively reveal that he once got offered a bung (probably from Lisbie's agent), he was disappointed with the FA's handling of the new coach situation, his sister lives in New Zealand and his favourite pre-match meal was lasagne!  ¶ 02:01