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Kimm Connett RIP

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
in General Charlton
https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/news/kimm-connett-19582023-2795908.html

1970s reserve team player Kimm has died aged 65

I got to know him as our sons played in the same youth team and went to the same secondary school.

A lovely guy who went on to have a very good career at Dulwich Hamlet.

RIP

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    RIP. Always an Addick!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,234

  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    RIP Addick 
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    Rip.

    I remember seeing him play in the old Midweek League.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,807
    Remember him and I suppose the only surprise was that he never got an opportunity in the first team although the squads were so much small and it wasn't as if you could give a youngster minutes from the bench given that there was only the one sub. 

    RIP Kimm
  • Bailey
    Bailey Posts: 3,268
    Woolwich Poly schoolboy I think, had an incredible goal scoring record in and around the secondary school level. I was asked to mark him once, anything in the air was his, then he started finishing them with his feet. I don't remember the final score but I know he got eight. RIP Kimm another one gone too early. 
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,765
    Oh no, this is such awful news, Kimm only had his 65th birthday a short time ago.

    I knew Kimm when we were teenagers and my Dad and his family were involved with Dulwich Hamlet. We had some wonderful holidays with our families at Littlestone. 

    My sincere condolences to Kimm's friends and family.


  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    David Campbell of Roan?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013
    soapy_jones said:
    David Campbell of Roan?
    Yes.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,902
    RIP
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  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    RIP Kimm 
  • Gillis
    Gillis Posts: 998
    RIP
  • Wellred
    Wellred Posts: 1,118
    Rest Easy Kimm
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
    Kimm's first match was as a sub in a South East Counties League (SECL) match in April 1975. These were youth team games. He would have been 17.

    He made 14 appearances for the Mid-Week Leage (MWL) team, the reserves, in 1975/6, scoring 2 goals. Kimm also made 13 appearances for the SECL team (6 goals), 2 FA Youth Cup games (1 goal), 1 Southern Junior Floodlit Cup (SJFC) match & 1 SECLC appearance.

    In 1976/7 he made 9 MWL appearances + 2 subs. His last match was on 28/4/77 v Gillingham in the LMW League Cup.

    Thanks to Paul Baker from the museum for the stats.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,297
    A friend of mine met him a few months ago, sent me a photo asking if I remembered him. I remembered the name but that's it and that may have been from Dulwich Hamlet as I used to watch them fairly often at that time. He was very surprised when I told him this news.

    RIP Kimm
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,547
    RIP Kimm
    I remember the name and that team photo very well.
    Arry Boy, Graham Tutt, Bob Curtis and Charlie Hall will welcome him to the Valley in the sky.
  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,336
    Remember him well. RIP
  • Dartaddick
    Dartaddick Posts: 113
    RIP

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