Charlton boss Nathan Jones has hit back at Town full-back Ashley Young’s claim that the Addicks had celebrated “like they’d won their cup final” after their 3-0 victory over the Blues at Portman Road last Tuesday.

Speaking following the South Londoners’ 1-1 draw at Hull City on Saturday, Jones responded to Young’s comments made after the Portman Road match.

“Ashley Young is an experienced guy and has had a fantastic career,” the Welshman told BBC Sport London. “I’m sure when he had a result against the likes of Man City or whatever he was pretty happy. I don’t think we over-celebrated. We celebrated with our fans - it’s what we do.

“We didn’t go and do a lap of honour, do the conga or do the Mexican Wave around Portman Road.

“Bearing in mind it is a big, big win, a big, big win, they have come down from the Premier League and we have come up from League One, so put a bit of context on it.

“I’ve got massive respect for Ashley. Huge. Wonderful player. Having a pop at us, we have a fraction of their budget - probably a 10th of their budget.

“If you multiply their budget by 10 it will probably be £300-400 million, which would mean them winning the Champions League final. They would be playing against a Juventus or Bayern Munich.

“If he thought we over-celebrated, I apologise. We didn’t. We just enjoyed the fact we beat probably the best team in the league.”

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Daniel72 added 21:53 - Oct 26 Bless him... doing good work.. and he was respectful towards old Youngie..
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Saxonblue74 added 22:01 - Oct 26 If they did (which I don't think they did) why shouldn't they? Shows a lot of respect for ITFC that they see it as such a huge win.
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Nutkins_Return added 22:42 - Oct 26 3-0 away win against the odds. Of course they should celebrate that. Absolutely no issue with that.
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awayfan added 22:50 - Oct 26 The context in which comments are made is important. Per the quotes in the TWTD article, Ashley said “Charlton were celebrating like they’d won their cup final” but, if you read his comments in full, he was illustrating a point about Ipswich, which is that other clubs will be highly motivated to beat us & delighted if they manage to do so, because by Championship standards we’re a big fish with a large budget. It was an important win for Charlton & an excellent second-half performance, so of course they’re entitled to celebrate that pretty enthusiastically.

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Cafe_Newman added 23:05 - Oct 26 Fair comments from Jones and fair comments above. Good luck to Charlton and Jones, they never sat back and tried to hold on to a slender lead and they did us like a kipper.
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armchaircritic59 added 00:12 - Oct 27 Just like we would have done if the boot had been on the other foot. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
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victorysquad added 06:31 - Oct 27 If it rattled our players then good, it should have done and hopefully that memory will stick with us so we remember if we get outfought we lose.
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Dissboyitfc added 06:31 - Oct 27 Just a throw a way comment from Ashley when asked a question, no big deal!
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JewellintheTown added 08:39 - Oct 27 Youngs words have been taken literally. Media trying to make something out of nothing. All a bit of a non-story.
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ChrisFelix added 09:15 - Oct 27 This was a fluke result. 9 times out of 10 it would have been a home win.. Enjoy it Charlton & like Maidstone celebrate
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algarvefan added 12:03 - Oct 27 Non story by bored journalist.............move on.
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darkhorse28 added 12:12 - Oct 27 They should celebrate like that. Great desire, resilience, organisation and togetherness…, they reminded me of us 23/24 - we celebrated hard when we dig results out too, it builds unity. Good luck to them.., they earned the right. I wish our group would focus on the same. Lots of teams I’d fancy us against in this league, based on quality. Not many baeed on doing the other side of the game.., the bits that are most important for success. That they could have a better season than us, with about a third our quality spells out clearly where our issues are…, they aren’t on the pitch after four years and £250 million spent.

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Eeyore added 14:19 - Oct 27 I'm with Jones on that one. Celebrate how much you want. We take it as a compliment. Focus on winning our games rather than reaction of the opposition.
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