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Blackheathen
Blackheathen Posts: 6,679
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Can you help please? A fellow Addick is trying to come up with the name of a young Charlton player who turned down the chance to play for England because he was going on holiday. A clue is he can be remembered missing a penalty (that opens up the options!)

Thought to be possibly the 1980/81 season.

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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,948
    edited July 2017
    I can't think of anyone in our side on 80/81 that would even come close to playing for England. Mike Flanagan played for an England B side but i'm not sure when.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,438
    Paul Walsh
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,504
    Mike Flanagan wasn't at Charlton in 1980/81 - he left for Palace in 1979. The only player that stood out that year would have been Paul Walsh but I don't remember him coming close to playing for England at that stage unless it was for the under 23s.
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,679
    Thanks guys. The name of Paul Walsh was mentioned but apparently he's not our man (too tall). Could it have been Richie
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,679
    Richie Bowman
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,504
    Richie Bowman left for Reading in 1977.

    Leroy Ambrose, perhaps? :smile:
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,744
    Kevin Smith, maybe.
  • Hornchurch
    Hornchurch Posts: 902
    John Humphrey?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,731
    Hornchurch said:

    John Humphrey?

    Too early
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,731
    Could it be Barry Little and it's one of the England youth teams he didn't play for?

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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,451
    Kevin Smith. Who went on to be a full international, but not for England.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,863
    edited July 2017
    Not the answer here I know, but I'm pretty sure Paul Walsh blotted his copybook with England for going on holiday and missing an under 21 tournament or something. Charlton players missing penalties doesn't narrow the field too much:-)

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