Fighting fit

Charlton's pre-season schedule began in earnest this week, with Alan Pardew confident his players are already benefiting from the effects of a stringent summer training programme.Addicks boss Pardew, along with the club's performance manager Niall Clark, devised a pre-season strategy that saw the players interrupt their holidays for a midweek training camp as well as maintaining their fitness away from Sparrows Lane.And the Charlton chief believes his squad's summer schedule will stand his men in good stead for the forthcoming Championship campaign.He told the official website: "The boys ha