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Which footballer do you regret not seeing play?

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,458
in General Charlton
Regret never seeing George Best play - probably Britain's best in his heyday.
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  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,330
    yep ditto as my old man said the best there ever was
  • sirjohnhumphrey
    sirjohnhumphrey Posts: 1,860
    Duncan Edwards
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    Pele, Puskas and Stuart Leary, my old mans favourite player.
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,330
    good shout as well sir john
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Eddie Firmani
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    Cory Gibbs
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,989
    The real Ronaldo.
  • Slartibartfast
    Slartibartfast Posts: 1,120
    Stanley Matthews
  • coltsgoalie
    coltsgoalie Posts: 723
    Omar Pouso - The Uruguayan Messi.
  • sleepy_head
    sleepy_head Posts: 189
    edited January 2013
    On my late father's ratings I would also have to pick Duncan Edwards but as he's already been mentioned I'll go for Tommy Lawton 285 goals in 383 games.

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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,763
    Sam Bartram.
  • GravesendAddick
    GravesendAddick Posts: 133
    Derrick Hales 1 of charltons greatest players and probably pele best and bobby charlton
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    By regret I take it we had to be alive to have stood a chance? If so then it would have to be Zenedine Zidane for me.
  • Half Nelson
    Half Nelson Posts: 408
    I agree with sirjohn, Duncan Edwards, as i saw Best, Law and Charlton at their peak and always wished I could have seen Edwards play.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,001
    RedArmySE7 said:

    By regret I take it we had to be alive to have stood a chance? If so then it would have to be Zenedine Zidane for me.

    Agree. Would have been great to watch him every week. Balletic style. A one off.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,038
    coltsgoalie said:

    Omar Pouso - The Uruguayan Messi.

    Also Cory Gibbs and Karim Bagheri. Most of all though I'd have liked to have seen Djimi Traore and Amdy Faye play - just once.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,107
    Eric Cantona.
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    In the flesh Michael Laudrup, Reuben Sosa, and someone not quite as good but just exquisite on his day Recoba.

    Fortunately we got to see Bergkamp at the Valley, probably my favourite player of the modern era: Maybe only Gazza the year after the 90 World Cup when he went mental at Luton for Tottenham, in his goalscoring and importance that season.
  • coltsgoalie
    coltsgoalie Posts: 723
    Stig said:

    coltsgoalie said:

    Omar Pouso - The Uruguayan Messi.

    Also Cory Gibbs and Karim Bagheri. Most of all though I'd have liked to have seen Djimi Traore and Amdy Faye play - just once.
    Imagine all of these footballing gods in one team.... One can only dream....
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Messi for me would love to see him play in the flesh not on tv but in a game

    Socrates (spelling) also

    Pele

    For charlton it would be big sam and prob sailor

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,362
    Dixie Dean, Stan Matthews, Ferenc Puskas
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,018
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

    Regret never seeing George Best play - probably Britain's best in his heyday.

    luckily I did a few times ...wonderful. wonderful player ...my favourite ever
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

    Regret never seeing George Best play - probably Britain's best in his heyday.

    Lucky enough to see him play for us in Les Berry's testimonial game. Got in from school and my old man said we were off to watch a legend play for Charlton.

    Pele or Stanley Matthews for me.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,018
    Probably Duncan Edwards ...my old man said he was very special
  • AdTheAddicK
    AdTheAddicK Posts: 3,379
    Akinfenwa !
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    edited January 2013
    Has to be Stuart Leary for me given that I started supporting Charlton in season 62/63 and thus would have seen him had he not fallen out with Frank "Tiger" Hill in that pre season.

    I was lucky enough to see him play cricket for Kent on quite a few occasions.
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    Allan Simonsen
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    edited January 2013
    I saw Hasselbank play for Chelsea but never for Charlton. I regret this.


    Sorry, - edit - just noticed that this joke has already been done.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,742
    edited January 2013
    I saw Best play in Les Berry's testimonial at the Valley and he was brilliant! Simply brilliant! Anybody else remember that game?

    Would like to have seen Sam Bartram play - seemed a real character from the biography I read.
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    nth london addick said:

    Messi for me would love to see him play in the flesh not on tv but in a game

    Socrates (spelling) also

    Pele

    For charlton it would be big sam and prob sailor

    You've still got a chance of seeing Messi live though NLA, England vs Argentina at Wembley maybe? Charlton at the Nu Camp? ;-)

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