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Radostin Kishishev

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  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,595
    Anyone who doesn't rate Kish and what he did for us clearly doesn't understand football so you probably shouldn't take their opinions too seriously.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,421
    arthur said:

    I always thought that he was good at bailing others out when they made a mistake. But if he made a mistake no one managed to repay the favour so he often got blamed for the team conceding goals.

    Interesting to see someone post something similar to what I was going to say. He was a real hard worker but for some reason, whenever he did make a mistake, wherever it was on the pitch, it led to a goal. I've never looked at it from your perspective, I just always assumed he was massively unlucky.

    I used to really dislike him when he started. I was young and didn't see what he brought to the tem, especially at RB, but as I got older I began to understand how much he did in the middle of the park. Lovely man as well. Big fan
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,449
    My eldest who was young at the time she used to go with me, is still convinced his name is Raddish KitchenChef... You can't choose your parents can you?
  • olster
    olster Posts: 1,405
    When i was on holiday we had a dog follow us round for three days. We named him Radostin. I loved that dog.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,609
    edited October 2016
    I always remember how he was announced over the Tannoy: 'Radostin KISH-ISH-EVVVVV!!!!'
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,630
    SantaClaus said:

    If we had a midfielder with half his energy and commitment we wouldn't be where we are the regime would have sold him by now.

    Fixed that for you.

    One of my favourite players of the time.
  • Hornchurch
    Hornchurch Posts: 902
    One of my favourites. I do remember a cracking 40 yard pass played with the outside of his right boot, between two centre halves that led to us scoring. Man City, away, may be.
  • McCartney
    McCartney Posts: 391
    It wasn't what he did on the ball but off it. He was a human shield in front of our back four cutting off angles so the killer pass couldn't be made. How we missed him when he got injured in the relegation season.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,441
    He was into Depeche Mode, top music taste, and a bloody good footballer.

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  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 12,017
    DaveMehmet said:

    Would kill to have him in the team now

    At 42 years of age he'd still do a better job than our current midfield.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,223
    Briston_Addick said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    Would kill to have him in the team now

    At 42 years of age he'd still do a better job than our current midfield.
    May well do
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,486
    Loved Kish.

    Remember seeing him selecting potatoes when I was shelf stacking at Sainsburys Bromley.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,086
    I rated him very highly. Not the most skillful but certainly had skill, made mistakes (don't we all) but never ever gave less than 100% and the shirt appeared to really mean something to him.

    And as @garrymanilow said he was a really top man off the pitch.
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 12,017
    Possibly my second favourite Charlton player behind Lord Humphrey of Right-Back.

    I remember writing something about Kish on the old CAFC Babes forum that was on the front page for ages - probably until the site went down!

    People used to slate him for "misplaced" passes but a lot of the time it was because he saw a good pass into space or behind defenders but his teammates weren't always on the same page and couldn't react quick enough.
  • simonmatthews
    simonmatthews Posts: 699
    Good full back.

    Played out of position (as a 'holding' midfielder) by Curbishley in rather negative formations in 2002-2006 and went a bit stale, albeit he wasn't too bad in the role in many games.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Kish was the sort of player you would always want in your team, one of the fittest players I have seen
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,822
    edited October 2016
    Briston_Addick said:

    Possibly my second favourite Charlton player behind Lord Humphrey of Right-Back.

    I remember writing something about Kish on the old CAFC Babes forum that was on the front page for ages - probably until the site went down!

    People used to slate him for "misplaced" passes but a lot of the time it was because he saw a good pass into space or behind defenders but his teammates weren't always on the same page and couldn't react quick enough.

    This is so true. It is something a lot of fans don't understand. Stephens was slated for it to. But both Ksih and him were looking for incisive balls. Balls that lead to chances. When weak players get slated for these sort of passes going astray they go simple and go nowhere. Many examples in the Oldham home match. You don't have to understand football to watch it and everybody has the same right to be a fan, but this does frustrate me because it means Fox bottles it and plays an easy ball in the middle allowing opponents to close us down (somebody else's problem) when a slightly harder ball out wide would have put Looman on the attack with space! That example from Oldham but many more.
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    Main thing I remember about him was whenever he played my old man would shout "Kishishev you're shit" in a proper deep voice, which when I was a youngster used to have me and my brothers in fits of laughter everytime
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Whenever my mum made chicken Kiev it always reminded me of kish.

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  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,262
    Starinnaddick said:

    Those who say he couldn't pass the ball were obviously not at The Valley when he returned playing for Brighton. Although nearing the end of his playing days, he was excellent .

    This. I know we were in the same division as now but he ran that game for a good hour playing much deeper than he normally did for us.

    He got a great reception from the Charlton fans and he was clearly delighted by that.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,640
    The first name on Curbs team sheet,without a doubt.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    He loved playing for us and he loved the fans. Unlike so many, he didn't "hide" when the going got tough. Also, he would always try to retrieve the situation if he lost the ball or "misplaced" a pass. I admired him for these qualities and for his work rate.

    Some players in the "premiership years" were so big-headed they'd moan if they were played out of position (Paul Konchesky springs to mind), but not Kish - as long as he was on the teamsheet you got the impression he'd play in any position for the gaffer, for the team and for the fans.
  • crookester
    crookester Posts: 1,363
    Nicholas said:

    Started off shocking as a right back, Then played holding mid and he was different class, proper grafter that gave 110% not always the best technically but a fans favourite he was.

    This
  • twiggyaddick
    twiggyaddick Posts: 1,588
    Remember his celebration against west ham, he did a hulk impression!
  • plentyofshots
    plentyofshots Posts: 268
    edited October 2016
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,862
    Swisdom said:

    Didn't he shed something like 14lb in a match once - such was his workrate?

    .

    No it was a stone
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,737
    edited October 2016
    Swisdom said:

    Didn't he shed something like 14lb in a match once - such was his workrate?

    .
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said
    No it was a stone



    That must have been some kidney stone.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,857
    I remember when the official programme featured a small comic strip story abut one of the players. It featured Kish one week and, referencing his early career in Bulgaria, had a little voice balloon over the crowd saying "Ayet, Ayet".

    Didn't have a clue what that meant, but from then on me and my (then) young son used to shout out Ayet, Ayet when Kish did something good in a game.

    Looked it up on Google translate just now. It means "Verse, Verse". Appears to be the writer's lazy attempt to convey chanting coming from the crowd. :smile:
  • drewman
    drewman Posts: 1,105
    Is this a suitable arena for my story about the Bulgarian stripper who had his number "in case she got into trouble whilst in London"?

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