So many memories reading this thread...great stuff and good luck to you GHF....yes you have you're memories but there's a few chapters yet to be written before the story ends for us old timers!
Once again my thanks for the kind thoughts, gentlemen. Yes, the memories are so vivid, and not always the most notable players such as Mendonca and Hales. What about the marvellous three-month cameo from Cliff Holton, the class of Marvin Hinton (surely most unlucky to be a contemporary of Bobby Moore) and one I remember almost as fondly as Eddie Firmani - Ron Saunders, whose tank-like qualities made Gert Muller look like Dennis Rommedahl. And so many others. And the match-days. And The Valley.
Stuart Leary - absolutely incomparable. Mike Bailey - a match for Scott Parker ?? Billy Bonds - a legend in the making. Charlie Wright - the first to step out of Bartram's shadow. John Hewie - goalkeeper by special appointment ....
Stuart Leary - absolutely incomparable. Mike Bailey - a match for Scott Parker ?? Billy Bonds - a legend in the making. Charlie Wright - the first to step out of Bartram's shadow. John Hewie - goalkeeper by special appointment ....
Billy Bonds one of the first overlapping full backs. I can see him rampaging down the right wing now. Cliff Holton as you say that 5-2 win against Preston sticks in my mind. Bailey was certainly a combative half back with no little skill. I just missed Leary by a matter of months :-( although I watched him bat for Kent plenty of times.
PEANUTS, PEANUTS TANNER A BAG!
All the best to you GHF and sorry to hear of your illness.
Remember Dennis Edwards (Daisy) tallish inside forward fair hair slightly thinning. Liked him wore number 10 languid style frustrated the crowd at times a bit like Dale Stephens does now. Played with a smile on his face and remember one midweek game down by the corner flag in front of the Courage sign against Plymouth? He duped one of their players who had been giving him some stick and took time to enjoy the moment with us in the crowd. Haven't read all the earlier posts in detail but regarding Ron Saunders Len I thought he was signed from Watford midweek towards the end of a season and played that same night as he put pen to paper?
Sorry this is a 2 year late reply i forgot all about this thread - i have passed on your best wishes and i showed him the thread he cannot believe people still remember him as daisy :P he owned his frozen food hole sale company (dennis edwards frozwn foods) after football but has retired and my uncle is running it i am proud of my granddad and look at him as a role model although i have taken the rugby route best wishes and thank you for your comments
Just read it right through. I saw Dennis Edwards play a couple of times in my first games as a kid, but really don't have much recall now - so he was just before my time really.
Good to see that so many people here hold him in such high regard.
Sorry this is a 2 year late reply i forgot all about this thread - i have passed on your best wishes and i showed him the thread he cannot believe people still remember him as daisy :P he owned his frozen food hole sale company (dennis edwards frozwn foods) after football but has retired and my uncle is running it i am proud of my granddad and look at him as a role model although i have taken the rugby route best wishes and thank you for your comments
Yes Dennis was a very skillfull inside forward very similar in apearance to Alan Gilzean ( Spurs & Scotland ). Pompey seemed to like our class players as they also took our centre half Frank Haydock . At the time Portsmouth were managed by former Charlton player George Smith who cut the playing staff down to around 15 or 17 full time staff so he had to choose his transfer targets very carefully .
Stuart Leary - absolutely incomparable. Mike Bailey - a match for Scott Parker ?? Billy Bonds - a legend in the making. Charlie Wright - the first to step out of Bartram's shadow. John Hewie - goalkeeper by special appointment ....
Billy Bonds one of the first overlapping full backs. I can see him rampaging down the right wing now. Cliff Holton as you say that 5-2 win against Preston sticks in my mind. Bailey was certainly a combative half back with no little skill. I just missed Leary by a matter of months :-
Len was the Preston game the one when Mike Kenning tore the net with a free kick towards the covered end .I think this was the hardest strike of a ball I have ever seen .
Jamal - great to read your message, and indeed to re-read this whole nostalgic discussion. As said, please pass the warmest good wishes of all of us to Dennis, a true hero.
It must be said that the sunny memories this thread has evoked are a welcome contrast to the sheer frenzy that has gripped CL over the past month or so. Nice timing ....
I thought he was an amateur international, and he played for Wycombe before they were a league club
This absolutely right. Dennis was an England amateur international. he was a good player with a laid back style which earned him the tag of Daisy. Happy Days
I followed Charlton through the sixties as well. He taught football at my school Crown Woods. Lovely teacher;however, he never passed any of his skills to me, not for the want of trying.
Jamal, please pass on my best wishes too. Remember Daisy well, playing alongside the great Eddie Firmani. Always happy to sign an autograph and chat even if you had got it several times already. Happy days.
Jamal - great to read your message, and indeed to re-read this whole nostalgic discussion. As said, please pass the warmest good wishes of all of us to Dennis, a true hero.
It must be said that the sunny memories this thread has evoked are a welcome contrast to the sheer frenzy that has gripped CL over the past month or so. Nice timing ....
GHF the sheer frenzy over yann has given some of the younger supporters an insight of what it was like to see our heroes sold season after season throughout the 1960's.
I followed Charlton through the sixties as well. He taught football at my school Crown Woods. Lovely teacher;however, he never passed any of his skills to me, not for the want of trying.
Yes I was at Crown Woods when Dennis Edwards came and taught football. I seem to remember a very young lad with him called Keith Peacock.
Jamal - great to read your message, and indeed to re-read this whole nostalgic discussion. As said, please pass the warmest good wishes of all of us to Dennis, a true hero.
It must be said that the sunny memories this thread has evoked are a welcome contrast to the sheer frenzy that has gripped CL over the past month or so. Nice timing ....
GHF the sheer frenzy over yann has given some of the younger supporters an insight of what it was like to see our heroes sold season after season throughout the 1960's.
Yes indeed, Fossdene, the present fever started with the long drawn out takeover, continued with speculation about the new owner and his many clubs, grew as the transfer deadline approached in combination with so many players soon out of contract, and of course reached a peak today. The immoveable deadline has given our new owner very little time to address the problems he inherited from the previous crowd, so everything has come on top together, along with such unheard-of things as the demise of the pitch. The turnover of playing staff just this week alone is unbelievable - Lord knows what the Wigan programme editor will make of it ....
Nothing like this has happened before, although naturally being Charlton there have been very dramatic moments : almost going bust in Mar 84, and the departure from and return to The Valley to name but three. Concerning the loss of players, in the old days what hurt most of all at the time was not that the players left but that we often got so little for them. Marvin Hinton 30K - a joke. Mike Bailey 40K - pathetic. Billy Bonds 50K - an insult. Lenny Glover fetched 80K which was a bit more like it .... then carrying on in later years with Robert Lee 700K - daylight robbery, Scott Minto 950K - surely a 1 missing from the front of that, and so on to the bloodbath of 2006/2007 ....
I followed Charlton through the sixties as well. He taught football at my school Crown Woods. Lovely teacher;however, he never passed any of his skills to me, not for the want of trying.
I followed Charlton through the sixties as well. He taught football at my school Crown Woods. Lovely teacher;however, he never passed any of his skills to me, not for the want of trying.
What house were you in pettgra?
John, I was in Arden. I was friends with Phil Blissett, Keith Offer, Peter Hill and Peter Lowe. My form teacher was Peter Dixon.
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Yes, the memories are so vivid, and not always the most notable players such as Mendonca and Hales. What about the marvellous three-month cameo from Cliff Holton, the class of Marvin Hinton (surely most unlucky to be a contemporary of Bobby Moore) and one I remember almost as fondly as Eddie Firmani - Ron Saunders, whose tank-like qualities made Gert Muller look like Dennis Rommedahl. And so many others. And the match-days. And The Valley.
Sorry to hear you're unwell and can't make today ghf. Hope you can listen in to it.
Billy Bonds one of the first overlapping full backs. I can see him rampaging down the right wing now. Cliff Holton as you say that 5-2 win against Preston sticks in my mind. Bailey was certainly a combative half back with no little skill. I just missed Leary by a matter of months :-( although I watched him bat for Kent plenty of times.
PEANUTS, PEANUTS TANNER A BAG!
All the best to you GHF and sorry to hear of your illness.
See what I did there ?
Just read it right through. I saw Dennis Edwards play a couple of times in my first games as a kid, but really don't have much recall now - so he was just before my time really.
Good to see that so many people here hold him in such high regard.
Billy Bonds one of the first overlapping full backs. I can see him rampaging down the right wing now. Cliff Holton as you say that 5-2 win against Preston sticks in my mind. Bailey was certainly a combative half back with no little skill. I just missed Leary by a matter of months :-
Len was the Preston game the one when Mike Kenning tore the net with a free kick towards the covered end .I think this was the hardest strike of a ball I have ever seen .
Jamal - great to read your message, and indeed to re-read this whole nostalgic discussion. As said, please pass the warmest good wishes of all of us to Dennis, a true hero.
It must be said that the sunny memories this thread has evoked are a welcome contrast to the sheer frenzy that has gripped CL over the past month or so. Nice timing ....
Dennis was an England amateur international. he was a good player with a laid back style which earned him the tag of Daisy. Happy Days
GHF the sheer frenzy over yann has given some of the younger supporters an insight of what it was like to see our heroes sold season after season throughout the 1960's.
Nothing like this has happened before, although naturally being Charlton there have been very dramatic moments : almost going bust in Mar 84, and the departure from and return to The Valley to name but three. Concerning the loss of players, in the old days what hurt most of all at the time was not that the players left but that we often got so little for them. Marvin Hinton 30K - a joke. Mike Bailey 40K - pathetic. Billy Bonds 50K - an insult. Lenny Glover fetched 80K which was a bit more like it .... then carrying on in later years with Robert Lee 700K - daylight robbery, Scott Minto 950K - surely a 1 missing from the front of that, and so on to the bloodbath of 2006/2007 ....
I was in Arden. I was friends with Phil Blissett, Keith Offer, Peter Hill and Peter Lowe. My form teacher was Peter Dixon.