Charlton Athletic Football Club's legendary manager Lennie Lawrence and Vice-Chairman Paul Elliott CBE MBE have led the tributes to the club's former Press Officer and journalist Peter 'Scoop' Burrowes, who passed away after a short battle with cancer. Lawrence, who worked closely with 'Scoop' during his successful nine-year spell as Addicks boss between 1982 and 1991, said: 'It's a sad time. I was pleased to have him as a guest at my dinner a few weeks ago and he was looking his best.' He simply loved Charlton. He told me once that, apart from during a trip to America, he hadn't missed a game home or away for about 20 years. He was an absolutely integral part of the club while I was there. Especially considering all the problems the club was going through, he was steadfast in his loyalty and his support to Charlton and always was. If you wanted to know what was going on, all the ins and outs, from the boardroom and politically, he was the man. He would know before anybody else, and that's how he got the name 'Scoop'! Even in recent years, we would speak a few times a year and he would give me the updates with all that was going on at the club. Because of all the things the club went through in the 80s, it became a cause rather than a club and he was an absolutely fundamental part of it. I'm so pleased he passed away surrounded by Charlton people. His loyalty to Charlton was like a beacon. It never wavered in all his years and I couldn't have had a better or more faithful servant.