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Charlton loan Fanni and the response is predictably schoolboy and childish

Published 22:36 1 Feb 2016 GMT

Updated 23:14 1 Feb 2016 GMT

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Charlton loan Fanni and the response is predictably schoolboy and childish

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Sigh. It was bound to happen.

Football fans being football fans, it was always going to take Olympian levels of self-control not to descend into mucky innuendos and fits of immature giggles at the news. But we failed. We all failed. You know why? Because we're weak and pathetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHhth9CmbJ8 In fairness, Charlton didn't help. When the Championship side secured a deadline day loan deal for former France international defender Rod Fanni, they could have used a different headline... https://twitter.com/CAFCofficial/status/694270893078532096 The 34-year-old has joined the Addicks from Qatari side Al-Arabi SC, but no one really cared much for that. They just wanted to respond like naughty school-kids guffawing at the back of the class... https://twitter.com/jay_stemmers1/status/694277510826213376 https://twitter.com/Onehotspurs/status/694274509839417344 https://twitter.com/SiDennis/status/694273846917140482 https://twitter.com/sal1706/status/694275366697975808 https://twitter.com/DurhamBear/status/694275967485919233 https://twitter.com/AllHailTheHen/status/694271673596510209 https://twitter.com/longley_john/status/694284348137304064 https://twitter.com/captain_coupon/status/694275442812030977 https://twitter.com/n7gooner72/status/694276491014754310

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Charlton loan Fanni and the response is predictably schoolboy and childish