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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