HAPPY BIRTHDAY KILLER!

SteveBridge

HALESY is 65 today - hope he has a Killer birthday! Raise a glass to Derek tonight!
This picture (taken in 1994 inside the dressing room at Welling United after a Charlton Vets game) is in my book which is still available for that late Christmas present! The photographic book 'Charlton Athletic In Pictures 1975-2015' can be bought at a sale price of £9, including P&P.
The A4 sized landscape softback book (128 pages, 123 pictures) can be previewed and ordered online or by post at http://www.youralbumonline.co.uk/sbridge.htm

stonemuse

Happy birthday to my favourite player of all time.

Lincsaddick

State pension time !!! or is it under the 'new rules' ? .. M H R to a man who deserves the title .. L E G E N D

Baldybonce

stonemuse said:

Happy birthday to my favourite player of all time.

same here.
He even spoke to me once..

blackpool72

168 goals for Charlton.
I doubt that will ever get beat.
My all-time favourite Charlton player.
Absolute legend
Happy birthday killer

mistrollingin

Happy Birthday Derek.

Used to love those Friday night home games at the Valley in the 1970's, he always seemed to score!

alan dugdale

Absolute Charlton legend. Like Blackpool 72, Killer's also my all time favourite Charlton player.

So many memories and goals from a happier era at the club.

Happy 65th Killer !

soapy_jones

Happy Birthday Killer. My all time greatest player.

Have a great day go blast a few cats for me!

LenGlover

Lincsaddick said:

State pension time !!! or is it under the 'new rules' ? .. M H R to a man who deserves the title .. L E G E N D

New rules for a man.

https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension

Lincsaddick

xx

Lincsaddick

LenGlover said:

Lincsaddick said:

State pension time !!! or is it under the 'new rules' ? .. M H R to a man who deserves the title .. L E G E N D

New rules for a man.

https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension

YES .. he gets if from today .. I like how the calculator D O B goes as far back as 1894 .. almost far back enough for you to check your entitlement Len (errrr jesting lol)

captainbob

When Derek Hales received the ball with only the keeper to beat, I always felt confident that he would score because he usually did. I have rarely had that confidence since...perhaps Mendonca and Bent but no one else.

Is it true that Killer once emerged from the tunnel (before a game) with a cigarette and stubbed it out by the pitch or have I imagined that?

Johnnysummers5

Happy Birthday Killer
Weather you were scoring great goals or sorting someone out including Flash always great entertainment

E_cafc

Happy Birthday Derek Killer Hales. To the fans you were a hero then and you are a hero now. That takes some doing. I can still remember and visualise many of the goals you scored. There were lots of special ones, that's for sure.

Rock Spectacle

Not imagined Captainbob, he would stub a fag out when he got out of his car before every home game as witnessed by an enthusiastic autograph hunter outside the players entrance - and he signed my book every time - happy birthday Killer.

jonseventyfive

Even at my young age, he became unforgettable as a player, and my first Charlton hero.

AddickUpNorth

I share the same birthday as a bona fide, Addick to the bone, legend! Did not know this, now life is complete.

Birthday salutations Killer!

56yearsofdreams

A true Legend . Happy Birthday Killer

andynelson

Happy Birthday Killer. No.1 Charlton legend. Ever.

Bedsaddick

My favourite player of all time - Happy Birthday Killer

CyrilDavies

Happy Birthday Killer. .Hope that you have had a great day.. .

killerandflash

Happy birthday Killer, the world of football was a very different one back then, but being able to stick the ball in the back of the net will always be a priceless attribute!

Greenie

The greatest Charlton player ever!
Happy Birthday Killer
I wonder if he fancys a run out on Saturday?

[Deleted User]

Happy Birthday Killer!!
Deadliest striker I've seen for Charlton bar none.

killer kish

A true Charlton legend
Happy Birthday Killer

masicat

He never missed when going clear
He never ever fails
If God was ever played up front
His name was Derek Hales

redbuttle

Happy birthday. You were (and still are) my hero and favourite ever Charlton player..

Viewfinder

Away at Fulham, fourth round of the Cup. Killer on the edge of the box. Back to goal. And sent this delicious arc over his shoulder. Buried in the onion-bag.

Ten minutes later, Killer got into a barney on the half-way line. Red Card! Rare in those days. Troops off to the Cottage, in our corner on the open terrace. Fulham fans hurling coins. Us, jumping and down: mad and ecstatic. 2-1. Through to the fifth round.

Was it that season, or the next? 1980-81. Away at Oxford, old Headington Road ground: ramshackle sheds and barns. Our 17-game unbeaten run. Peasants in the scratching-shed pipe up: “Derek Hales is a Wanker, Derek Hales is a Wanker, La-La, La La. La-La, La La.”

And Killer on the half-way line. Didn't even look up. Swivelled and hammered. Ball shuddered the crossbar. That shut those bastards up!

Until very recently, on a brick wall in Greenwich, behind a palimpsest of torn posters, there was a painted fact from the Seventies:

KILLER HALES IS GOD

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

Heart of a Lion.
Never bottled a one-on-one.
I've seen more technically gifted players wear the shirt over the last 55 years, but Killer is my favourite.
He made me proud to call myself an Addick.
Happy Birthday Derek

Chizz

Happy birthday Killer. My favourite-ever Charlton player. By miles.

Rock Spectacle

It was indeed that season, stayed on the field in the Cup game, sent off in the League game later in the season when the coins flew, stand to be corrected. Scored IMHO his best goal ever away to Chesterfield that season, the Hull one still Paddy's. Finish OK though...:)