That second half of the season under Luzon we had an exciting team going forward. When you look at some of the names, Watt, JBG, Bulot, Buyens, Igor (when fit) there were some decent players there.
Looking the line up for that Celtic game versus Barcelona, FOUR future Addicks played for Celtic that evening. Watt and Adam Matthews plus the Charlton legends Beram Kayal and Joe Ledley. Barca had only one former loanee (Alex Song) and instead had to make do with Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Alba, Mascherano, Pedro etc
A little bit of revisionist history here. The managers were all frustrated by his lack of effort on the training ground and his performances on the pitch generally didn’t live up to the talent he had. He was a personality though which guess endeared him to fans
Lot of revisionistic history relating to Tony. Didn’t perform well for us, all the managers couldn’t stand him because he didn’t take the training ground seriously and showed up out of shape each year. A number of his teammates didn’t like him(at least the more professional ones) - well except for JJ. JJ loved him for some reason.
I think that's more of a reflection on JJ being the world's most approachable bloke
Also could see the talent, that tony was really a nice guy and that the hairdryer treatment clearly didn’t work on him and just needed an arm round him.
Think JJ had a soft spot for big personalities, I remember he got on well with frimpong when he was here (I remember the Twitter exchanges of #straightred about each others fashion choices)
I had almost forgotten that we had that Frimpong bloke here!! We have had so many shockers, that it is genuinely hard to recall them all (though Tresor Kandol stands out).
One of my earliest memories of him was appearing on Soccer AM, when he had the aloof and kingly manner of a man that had been capped one hundred times by his country, played regularly in the PL and picked up a couple of UCL titles into the mix! I think he'd played three or four time for Arsenal in the Rumbelows cup at the time, so had delusions of grandeur beyond belief.
He just kept saying 'Dench' the whole time, and name-checking the loftier members of the Arsenal squad, and generally across as a bigger bell-end than Tim Lovejoy which in retrospect may have been his biggest football achievement.
Perhaps his career peaked with that goal against Barcelona, some players spend years building up to their peak, others do it in reverse.
Interesting point Guinness and despite having a polar opposite personality to Michael Chang and Emma Raducanu* who both won slams at 17 and 18 years old respectively at the beginning of their tennis career's which was the peak for Chang and very likely for Raducanu.
* Only 22 but Emma is a long way behind the top players now.
I guess he is a complex character, for want of any other reasonable phrase. He obviously genuinely loves the game, unlike Lyle Taylor, but again unlike Taylor, I have to reluctantly conclude that things got in the way of him making best use of his undoubted talent. The dizzying story of the sheer number and spread of clubs he signed for is evidence of that. For sure he came to us at a bad time, but his performances didn’t really improve anywhere else.
I really wanted him to be a success for us. He has interesting things to say there, but they spill out in a jumble, something like his performances on the pitch.
That second half of the season under Luzon we had an exciting team going forward. When you look at some of the names, Watt, JBG, Bulot, Buyens, Igor (when fit) there were some decent players there.
Looking the line up for that Celtic game versus Barcelona, FOUR future Addicks played for Celtic that evening. Watt and Adam Matthews plus the Charlton legends Beram Kayal and Joe Ledley. Barca had only one former loanee (Alex Song) and instead had to make do with Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Alba, Mascherano, Pedro etc
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Looking the line up for that Celtic game versus Barcelona, FOUR future Addicks played for Celtic that evening. Watt and Adam Matthews plus the Charlton legends Beram Kayal and Joe Ledley. Barca had only one former loanee (Alex Song) and instead had to make do with Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Alba, Mascherano, Pedro etc
One of my earliest memories of him was appearing on Soccer AM, when he had the aloof and kingly manner of a man that had been capped one hundred times by his country, played regularly in the PL and picked up a couple of UCL titles into the mix! I think he'd played three or four time for Arsenal in the Rumbelows cup at the time, so had delusions of grandeur beyond belief.
He just kept saying 'Dench' the whole time, and name-checking the loftier members of the Arsenal squad, and generally across as a bigger bell-end than Tim Lovejoy which in retrospect may have been his biggest football achievement.
Interesting point Guinness and despite having a polar opposite personality to Michael Chang and Emma Raducanu* who both won slams at 17 and 18 years old respectively at the beginning of their tennis career's which was the peak for Chang and very likely for Raducanu.
* Only 22 but Emma is a long way behind the top players now.
I think Kayal was actually the better of the two for us.
Kayal had a decent CV but only got on the pitch 6 times for CAFC and we didn't unfortunately get the Celtic and Brighton best version of Beram Kayal.