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Hardest player seen at the Valley.

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  • Jeez .. old age, I had forgotten about the other connotation of the word. I was thinking of the kind of player we might 'boo', but would not mind having in the team.
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,668
    Koc
  • cazo
    cazo Posts: 1,483
    Terry nayler 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,360
    R0TW said:
    Derek Hales never took a backward step no matter how hard the defender was
    Mentioned it somewhere else on here years ago.
    He came out the Valley Club with his missis and was walking up Floyd Rd towards the station.
    His missis had her bag snatched and the thief made off towards Charlton station.
    Hales had a face like a child in a sweet shop when he came out the station with the bloke in a headlock
    A rare victory over Millwall?
  • George Curtis and Alan Dugdale (Thugdale). Jock Campbell if you go back further. He was probably the hardest Charlton player.
  • Muscat was a filthy b*stard
  • IanJRO
    IanJRO Posts: 691
    Vinnie Jones
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,187
    Paul Went, Never a backward step. 

    Dave Mackay, Derby. 

    Don't know if Mark Dennis (Southampton) played at the Valley, but he listed his greatest 
    football achievement as" being stabbed by my wife"
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,845
    edited December 2023
    A lot of older fans used to mention Jock Campbell, apparently he stood out even when most footballers ate gravel and shaved with blowlamps.
  • It will take quite a lot to beat Duncan Ferguson imho
    The stories about the two sets of burglars trying to rob his house never fail to make me laugh.

    Believe both times the thieves needed a few days in hospital after he 'restrained' them. 

    Must have absolutely shat themselves realising whose house it was and that they'd been heard.

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  • Based on Charlton players he badly injured in one match without even getting a card, would have to be George Curtis. (Coventry, managed by Jimmy Hill)
    Agree. Can't remember who exactly, but was it Matt Tees he basically kicked off the pitch into the old West Stand?
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,684
    Based on Charlton players he badly injured in one match without even getting a card, would have to be George Curtis. (Coventry, managed by Jimmy Hill)
    Agree. Can't remember who exactly, but was it Matt Tees he basically kicked off the pitch into the old West Stand?
    Loved Matt Tees.
    As skinny as a rake but as brave as they come. 
    Also the best header of a football. 
  • A lot of older fans used to mention Jock Campbell, apparently he stood out even when most footballers ate gravel and shaved with blowlamps.
    Wingers only went past him once. 
  • Mick Harford would be a contender. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,362
    Based on Charlton players he badly injured in one match without even getting a card, would have to be George Curtis. (Coventry, managed by Jimmy Hill)
    Agree. Can't remember who exactly, but was it Matt Tees he basically kicked off the pitch into the old West Stand?
    Based on Charlton players he badly injured in one match without even getting a card, would have to be George Curtis. (Coventry, managed by Jimmy Hill)
    Agree. Can't remember who exactly, but was it Matt Tees he basically kicked off the pitch into the old West Stand?
    Loved Matt Tees.
    As skinny as a rake but as brave as they come. 
    Also the best header of a football. 
    It was Tees, I mentioned this up the page a bit
  • For old timers only
    Benny Fenton was a nasty piece of work and hard as nails . Beloved
  • Ron Harris playing for Brentford (I think he eas their coach and had been registered to play in emergencies) at the Valley when he looked about 40. Eas down at the front of the Covered End and when he smiled half his teeth were missing. Martin Robinson could have skinned him but Harris psyched him out on reputation alone.
  •  Nothing to do with Charlton but......a while ago in Epping Forest whilst dog walking a woman also with a dog was threatened by a man who thought his dog had been wronged . He was shouting and making a fuss 
     Suddenly another dog walker appeared " Well take me on then " ..... Karl Walker. Admirable 
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,577
    Harry Cripps nemesis from Millwall who played a few for us.Took our school for football training and tackled like itwas a top flight league match not a bunch of Year 10s

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  • Billy Whitehurst for me, absolute beast of a player. Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce could look after themselves as well.

  • Jock Campbell would signal his intent - running out at the start (compared with now little fanfare) he would stick both fingers up his nose and blow . Became a favourite routine.
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,827
    IanJRO said:
    Vinnie Jones
    How many times did he play at the valley ? Did he play in the Pringle game ? That must have been it 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    Mick Harford would be a contender. 
    Just catching up on this thread and was looking for Mick Harford although I associate him more with Selhurst era but am sure he must have played at Valley as well. 
  • Billy Whitehurst for me, absolute beast of a player. Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce could look after themselves as well.

    Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce defo never played at The Valley 

    Happy to be proved wrong 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    Billy Whitehurst for me, absolute beast of a player. Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce could look after themselves as well.

    Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce defo never played at The Valley 

    Happy to be proved wrong 
    Did he play against us in 94 season ? 
  •  Alex Rae was a nasty Farquhar 
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,845
    MrOneLung said:
    Billy Whitehurst for me, absolute beast of a player. Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce could look after themselves as well.

    Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce defo never played at The Valley 

    Happy to be proved wrong 
    Did he play against us in 94 season ? 
    I clearly remember him hitting the bar of the North goal at The Valley with a free kick, it was still wobbling a minute later. Would have been around 1993-4.
  • Billy Whitehurst for me, absolute beast of a player. Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce could look after themselves as well.

    Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce defo never played at The Valley 

    Happy to be proved wrong 
    That'll teach me to read the title properly
  • MrOneLung said:
    Billy Whitehurst for me, absolute beast of a player. Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce could look after themselves as well.

    Tommy Smith and Stuart Pearce defo never played at The Valley 

    Happy to be proved wrong 
    Did he play against us in 94 season ? 
    I clearly remember him hitting the bar of the North goal at The Valley with a free kick, it was still wobbling a minute later. Would have been around 1993-4.
    Playing for who ?

    We were Div 2 then - Pearce was surely still Div 1 then (in old money) 

    Unless my memory is becoming very bad, I can’t recall Pearce at The Valley 

    Can’t be arsed to look at ‘Home and Away’ tonight - have had too much Rioja 😉

    Will look tmrw - maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m right 🤷