Many Charlton Athletic fans will be pinching themselves following their impressive start to life back in the Championship after their League One promotion.

The Addicks currently sit in second place with six matches played, with only Swansea City ahead of them, and one place ahead of promotion favourites Leeds United.

It is a continuation of the brilliant job that Lee Bowyer continues to do at the Valley. Despite losing the likes of Joe Aribo, Patrick Bauer and Krystian Bielik in the summer, he has managed to get them playing to promotion standards early on.

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And the club took another step towards improving their overall running on Tuesday afternoon when head of recruitment Steve Gallen was made a club director, according to Richard Cawley of South London Press.

Given the brilliant job he has done in the transfer market in recent seasons with very limited funds, it was no surprise to see the vast majority of fans were delighted with the decision...