South London Sport: Charlton Athletic Edition

South London Sport: Charlton Athletic Edition

Charlton Athletic running stats a topic of conversation after Sky Sports’ graphic - but Nathan Jones describes metric as ‘contextual’

Addicks are 19th for total distance covered in the Championship

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Oct 30, 2026
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Nathan Jones has given his thoughts on a talking point that cropped up after Charlton Athletic’s 3-1 loss to Norwich City last weekend - his squad’s running stats.

Sky Sports popped up a graphic which showed that the south Londoners had one of the lowest totals in the Championship during their match coverage of the fixture against the Canaries in SE7.

Stats site All Football has Charlton 19th in the second tier with a total distance of 1061.5km.

The clubs below them are Portsmouth (987.0km), Wolves (1011.3km), Wrexham (1025.7km), West Brom (1050.2km) and QPR (1055.7km).

Tyreece Campbell puts the pressure on against Norwich/Picture: Kyle Andrews

Directly above the Addicks in this table are Swansea (1074.0km), Birmingham (1074.1km) and West Ham (1077.4km).

Tomorrow’s opponents Middlesbrough are top on 1161.5km with Stoke (1147.3km) and Lincoln (1130.4km) in second and third respectively.

South London Sport: Charlton Athletic Edition asked Jones for his thoughts on that particular statistic.

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