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Friday fun... 1001 things you never knew about charlton players and staff.

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  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,414
    Contrary to popular belief, Dennis Rommedahl has actually scored at The Valley. His half time embrace with Iain Dowie's wife was the real reason that the ugly one left the club. Dowie's wife said that she really enjoyed making bacon with the Danish winger.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,209
    90. Akpo can trap the ball further than I can kick it.
  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,540
    91 Kevin Lisbie was unbelievable in training
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,810
    92. John Solako's saliva has a boiling point twice that of regular water.
  • Brunello
    Brunello Posts: 1,950
    93. Jimmy Trotter had incredibly small feet.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,381
    94. El Kakouri once had to change his kit 3 times in one match, the first was due to blood injury, the second was at half time and the third was because the one he put on at half time had FORTUNE 24 written on it............

    AND THATS AN ACTUAL FACT :)
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,810
    95. The top three boys names in the UK in the 1970's were Derek , Arthur and Paddy thanks to Charlton's very own Derek Hales , Paddy Powell & Arthur Horsfeild....

    And that's an actual fact ;-)
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    96. Gary Nelson was named after the famous admiral from the Battle of Trafalgar and his middle name is actually Lord...
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,427
    97. Brendan Oconnell is a qualified midwife.
  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    The Charlton Staff is actually just a discarded branch

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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,810
    [cite]Posted By: RalphMilnesgut[/cite]The Charlton Staff is actually just a discarded branch

    ???
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,381
    Staff as in a stick used in ceremonies etc, not Staff as in employees of Charlton :facepalm:
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    edited July 2010
    Graham stuarts tackle on cristinao ronaldo was so memorable, cristian has decided to call his baby Graham. A plaque to comemerate the occasion will unvieled on the touchline in front of the east stand where the amazing tackle happend before the bournemouth game.
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    edited July 2010
    100. Iain Dowie once went to the club's Fancy Dress Christmas Party dressed up as a piece of 4x2...

    For a laugh, one of the tea ladies nailed another piece to his head which made Dowie look very cross...

    One to go...
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,123
    101. One hundred and one is the exact number of Charlton first teamers used in the past three seasons. By coincidence it is the exact same number used between 1921 and 1947.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,460
    It is said that now Murray has taken full control of the best part of south London that The world is next.
  • Killarahales
    Killarahales Posts: 1,065
    At the immediate after-match party in a TV Studio next door to Wembley, after the Greatest Game, there was a choice of Budweiser or Champagne. Some people chose the Budweiser. FACT!!
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,810
    104. Les Reed's left leg was actually wooden but strangely enough his left foot was real.
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    105. Les Reed was once Norris Coles stunt double in Coronation Street...
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    106. Mike Salmon is a Mormon merman. He has six wives, three of them are mermaids and the other three are dolphins. His life has no porpoise.

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  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,414
    edited July 2010
    107. Paddy Powell painstakingly cuts every blade of grass with a pair of scissors to an exact length of 2.37cm during the week leading up to each game.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,810
    108. Danny Murphy is to take over the role from Jonathan Ross on film 2010 - He applied for the job so his wife could blag tickets for movie premiers.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    109. Lee power was the insperation for snaps multi million selling number one single 'ive got the power' after lead singer turbo b saw him in action during his loan spell from norwich in 1992.
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,780
    110. Danny Mills' great-great-great-great-grandfather was nicknamed 'Satanic Mills' and was the inspiration for Blake's poem, known as Jerusalem, after Blake had his leg broken by Mills in the annual Shrovetide football match.
  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    111. The so-called "the fox in the box" was caught on CCTV cameras defecating on various seats around The Valley during August 2005. The same fox had also been seen at Goodison Park and Highbury doing the same thing.
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    112. Richard Murray got the idea of running a football club from the 1953 version of the film, Titanic...
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,810
    edited July 2010
    113. Fidel Castro's brother Raul has the largest collection of Charlton Athletic underpants in the world .
  • Eddie Firmani
    Eddie Firmani Posts: 650
    114. Having turned into a chicken (see comment 86) Jose Semedo will be transferred to Nandos during the January window, and will be on sale in the Powis Street branch shortly thereafter.
  • No.1 in South London
    No.1 in South London Posts: 3,968
    115. Lee "Butter Flip" Martin won the skateboarding competition in the now famous episode of Only Fools & Horses where Rodney Charlton Trotter finished runner up.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,407
    116. Bobby Ayre and Ricky Otto are the only two players to represent Charlton since the war whose names begin and end in a vowel and have a surname of 4 letters in length

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