Charlton Athletic Football Club is in a state of civil war and no one knows who is in charge.



Just two months after Roland Duchatelet’s near six years of austerity and poor management ended, majority shareholder Tahnoon Nimer and executive chairman Matt Southall have spent the past few days fighting for control, each man trying to remove the other from the club.



Police were called to The Valley by a club official at 6.30pm on Thursday “in order to prevent a breach of the peace”.



Earlier, Nimer’s legal team had arrived at Charlton’s ground to try and end Southall’s reign, The Athletic understands. The club’s safety officer Mick Everett was instructed to enter the boardroom to serve Southall with papers for his removal from the ground. Southall told Everett in response that he was sacked.



“Officers attended in order to prevent a breach of the peace,” said the Metropolitan Police. “No criminal...