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Charlton careers ended by injury

Aethelstan
Aethelstan Posts: 542
in General Charlton
As we are insufficiently depressed already, I thought I would start this cheerful thread:

Which players had their Charlton careers effectively ended by a bad injury (including those who may have returned but never at the same standard?)
Gary Rowett
David Whyte
Igor Vetokele
Ahmed Kashi (probably)
Mark Robson ?
Matty Holmes
Grahame Tutt
Saša Ilić
Yassin Moutaouakil
Kelly Youga
Greg Shields
Martin Pringle

I am sure there are lots more.
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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,728
    Richard Rufus
  • WestCountryAddick
    WestCountryAddick Posts: 2,545
    Might as well add Andy Hunt and Mendonca to those. Both had to retire earlier than usual due to illness (in Hunt's case) or injury (Mendonca - back problem).
  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,420
    Svetoslav Todorov
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,728
    Peter Reeves
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,169
    Even with injuries they could probably have played better than the lot we have today
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,323
    i would say more of a disability - johnson tourettes
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,224
    What about "career never started because of injuries" - i.e. Cory Gibbs
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,782
    Mark Fish really struggled in his last few games for us. Didn't he get injured falling through a glass table?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,770
    Terry Naylor
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Cyril Davies
    Mark Penfold

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  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,236
    Think you could include Grant Basey. Never really recovered after he was taken out badly by a Plymouth player. Career went downhill and has just announced his retirement.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    LenGlover said:

    Peter Reeves

    Very sad when Peter had to retire, I think he became a milkman after
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,398
    Kenny Chamberlain after breaking leg at Tottenham.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,016
    Gary Poole, scorer of a 30 yard beauty at Loftus Road on his debut.

    Don't think David Whyte's Charlton career was ended by injury, was it? I thought Curbs just released him from his contract. He definitely played for Ipswich against us, and I think had a short spell at Southend as well.
  • stockportugaladdick
    stockportugaladdick Posts: 1,169
    edited March 2017
    Grahan Tutt. Awful injury to his eye v Sunderland at Roker Park that ended his career at a ridiculously young age. I have no doubts that he would have gone on to be a goalkeeping great.

    Edit: Just seen Tutt on the original list, doh
  • CafcdogJnr
    CafcdogJnr Posts: 6
    Mendonca
  • GRAY9
    GRAY9 Posts: 1,094
    Paul Gorman
  • GRAY9
    GRAY9 Posts: 1,094
    GRAY9 said:

    Paul Gorman

    Just saw he played for Welling after, thought he finished with us after knee injury.
  • Isawsummersplay
    Isawsummersplay Posts: 1,432
    Geoff Scott - managed just two games after signing from Birmingham, before being injured in the second, against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. I was at his comeback game for the reserves. Lasted five minutes and that was that. He played a few games in the lower leagues, but that injury at the Bridge virtually ended his career,
    Iain Ferguson joined us on loan from Hearts. Got injured in his first and only game - never saw him again.
  • Aethelstan
    Aethelstan Posts: 542
    MrLargo said:

    Gary Poole, scorer of a 30 yard beauty at Loftus Road on his debut.

    Maybe I was confusing him with Rowett? How did Rowett finish with us?

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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,728
    Aethelstan said:

    MrLargo said:

    Gary Poole, scorer of a 30 yard beauty at Loftus Road on his debut.

    Maybe I was confusing him with Rowett? How did Rowett finish with us?
    Injury finished him too after just a few games.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    I'm pretty sure Charlie Revell, my old sports teacher at Graham Road in the early 1960's, had to retire through injury around 1950.
  • PeterGage
    PeterGage Posts: 1,805
    Harold Hobbis. England international (winger) just before WWII. Broken leg, never played again. In the 60s and beyond, first landlord of The Valley pub upon it's opening
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,538
    Who can forget Jimmy Loveridge
  • The Equaliser
    The Equaliser Posts: 762
    Tommy Caton
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,770
    PeterGage said:

    Harold Hobbis. England international (winger) just before WWII. Broken leg, never played again. In the 60s and beyond, first landlord of The Valley pub upon it's opening

    I think he broke his leg at Highbury. My Grandad told me the story of it happening and he clearly heard his leg break.
  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,757
    cafc-west said:

    Think you could include Grant Basey. Never really recovered after he was taken out badly by a Plymouth player. Career went downhill and has just announced his retirement.

    Was it not Blizzard for Bristol Rovers?
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,610
    edited March 2017
    Wiggins never recovered from Zaha turning him inside out
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,344
    cafc-west said:

    Think you could include Grant Basey. Never really recovered after he was taken out badly by a Plymouth player. Career went downhill and has just announced his retirement.

    It was Blizzard of Bristol Rovers that done Basey.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,770
    John Pender

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