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Which footballer do you regret not seeing play?

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  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,010
    Lloyd Sam.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    my grandad Jack Shreeve - or his best buddy Sam Bartram for that matter.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,047
    Ralph Milne, just to see if he really was as bad as everyone says.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Hans Jeppson.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,506
    mistrollingin said:

    Hans Jeppson.

    My Dad (who wasn't a Charlton supporter) saw him in the famous game at Highbury (didn't he get a hat-trick?)
  • PeteF
    PeteF Posts: 1,698
    I was lucky as a kid having a Man U fan of a brother so saw Best, Charlton etc, but from what I hear I would love to have seen Duncan Edwards, such a tragedy he and others died so young.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868

    Simonsen Member
    11:35AM

    mistrollingin said:

    Hans Jeppson.

    My Dad (who wasn't a Charlton supporter) saw him in the famous game at Highbury (didn't he get a hat-trick?)
    Quote

    Correct. 24/2/1951. Charlton won 5-2. Att. 54,903. According to Colin Cameron's book, "Fighting broke out among the rival fans"
  • Jarman
    Jarman Posts: 1,851
    edited January 2013
    Amdy Faye.
  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    Reading this thread has reminded me that there are advantages to being old, having seen 99% of the players on here. For me it was Dixie Dean who I read about on Fag Cards. Slightly off subject, Pele was wonderful, but the thing that you really wanted to see was the Brazil team of that time. Exciting football played with incredible enthusiasm.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    I was lucky enough to see Best play, along with Rodney marsh and Bobby Moore. OK it was at Fulham, but I still saw them play.
    The only player I wish I had seen play 'live' is Johann Cruyff.

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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,611
    I regret never having seen Simon Francis play.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    LargeAddick said:

    I regret never having seen Simon Francis play.

    Ouch!
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    edited January 2013
    Fatty Foulkes

    At the end of the first match in the 1902 Cup Final Foulke protested to the officials that Southampton's equalizing goal should not have been allowed. Foulke left his dressing room unclothed and pursued the referee, Tom Kirkham, who took refuge in a broom cupboard. Foulke had to be stopped by a group of F.A. officials from wrenching the cupboard door from its hinges to reach the hapless referee.

    That's the spirit!
  • fossdeneboy
    fossdeneboy Posts: 403
    Swisdom said:

    my grandad Jack Shreeve - or his best buddy Sam Bartram for that matter.

    Jack shreeve a tough defender who died far to young I am sure I met him at A Redhill v finchley game. Sam I had the good fortune seeing him play and also when he judged the kids fancy dress competition at the old Charlton liberal club in the Woolwich road.
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    Killer and the great Sam Bartram (not being born before those periods).
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    mistrollingin said:

    Hans Jeppson.

    His last game was my first one so I was lucky enough to see him once!

    Back on subject: Jimmy Greaves. Whenever I was due to see him play circumstances dictated otherwise.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    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.

    Vaguely remember going to Les Berry's testimonial but maybe I'm confused with Hales' two.

    Sam Bartram for me also.

    I was thinking of a non Charlton player as well... and bizarrely thought of Jimmy Greaves, weird 'cos March has just put that.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Great minds, ET.......
  • Pelham123
    Pelham123 Posts: 379
    My late father told me that Brian Clough was a very good player.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    Non Charlton would be Stanley Matthews for me.

    He was playing for Stoke City when I first started supporting Charlton but we didn't / couldn't go for some reason.

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  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    March51 said:

    Great minds, ET.......

    I think my dad (a lasped hammer) has talked him up, maybe that's why I thought of him. Don't think I've asked my dad who his favourite was though, may do it tonight.
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,276
    Tom Finney - Greatest English Player of all-time.
    Then some of the other great players of the 50's ...Stanley Matthews, Tommy Lawton, Raich Carter, Wilf Mannion, Duncan Edwards. Also just missed Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, jimmy Greaves, from the sixties. On the international list - Puskas, Di Stefano, Eusebio.
    Would be good to compare them all with the outstanding players of the 70's onwards. There are DVDs about, but not the same as seeing them live.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,840
    Puskas - my father played in Hungary during that era and still maintains to this day that THE Real Madrid would beat anything today.
  • ValleyFloydChode
    ValleyFloydChode Posts: 10
    Big Djimi
  • valleyman1973
    valleyman1973 Posts: 1,226
    Kenny Dalglish would have been great to see him play, one of my idols when I was growing up.
  • No.1 in South London
    No.1 in South London Posts: 3,963
    Stuart Leary
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,632
    Georgie. No doubt.
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,161
    Killer/Best/Cantona
  • fossdeneboy
    fossdeneboy Posts: 403
    Oakster said:

    Fatty Foulkes

    At the end of the first match in the 1902 Cup Final Foulke protested to the officials that Southampton's equalizing goal should not have been allowed. Foulke left his dressing room unclothed and pursued the referee, Tom Kirkham, who took refuge in a broom cupboard. Foulke had to be stopped by a group of F.A. officials from wrenching the cupboard door from its hinges to reach the hapless referee.

    That's the spirit!

    The FA expect to to anounce the results of there investigation of this incident next week.
  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    Cory Gibbs

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