How Nathan Jones Turned Southampton’s Collapse into Charlton’s Championship Surge—The Untold Story
And so, having climbed rung by rung over six or seven years, Jones found that his next port of call after the Premier League was the bottom end of League One. No cushy Championship job with parachute payments and excellent players – he was picking up the pieces at a club occupying their lowest league position in nearly 100 years.
Jones was determined that would only be temporary. “I didn’t drop to League One to become a League One manager; I dropped to League One to manage Charlton,” he explained at Wembley. Taking them up in his first full season is especially impressive when you consider the league’s shark-infested waters in 2024/25: not just Birmingham and Wrexham but Bolton, Huddersfield and Rotherham – all shorter odds for promotion before the campaign kicked off – as well as Stockport, Blackpool and Peterborough, among others.
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