Which footballer do you regret not seeing play?

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Regret never seeing George Best play - probably Britain's best in his heyday.

northstandsteve

yep ditto as my old man said the best there ever was

sirjohnhumphrey

Duncan Edwards

CHG

Pele, Puskas and Stuart Leary, my old mans favourite player.

northstandsteve

good shout as well sir john

Absurdistan

Eddie Firmani

DaveMehmet

Cory Gibbs

RedPanda

The real Ronaldo.

Slartibartfast

Stanley Matthews

coltsgoalie

Omar Pouso - The Uruguayan Messi.

sleepy_head

On my late father's ratings I would also have to pick Duncan Edwards but as he's already been mentioned I'll go for Tommy Lawton 285 goals in 383 games.

Bedsaddick

Sam Bartram.

GravesendAddick

Derrick Hales 1 of charltons greatest players and probably pele best and bobby charlton

RedArmySE7

By regret I take it we had to be alive to have stood a chance? If so then it would have to be Zenedine Zidane for me.

Half Nelson

I agree with sirjohn, Duncan Edwards, as i saw Best, Law and Charlton at their peak and always wished I could have seen Edwards play.

Valley11

RedArmySE7 said:

By regret I take it we had to be alive to have stood a chance? If so then it would have to be Zenedine Zidane for me.

Agree. Would have been great to watch him every week. Balletic style. A one off.

Stig

coltsgoalie said:

Omar Pouso - The Uruguayan Messi.

Also Cory Gibbs and Karim Bagheri. Most of all though I'd have liked to have seen Djimi Traore and Amdy Faye play - just once.

Friend Or Defoe

Eric Cantona.

ColinTat

In the flesh Michael Laudrup, Reuben Sosa, and someone not quite as good but just exquisite on his day Recoba.

Fortunately we got to see Bergkamp at the Valley, probably my favourite player of the modern era: Maybe only Gazza the year after the 90 World Cup when he went mental at Luton for Tottenham, in his goalscoring and importance that season.

coltsgoalie

Stig said:

coltsgoalie said:

Omar Pouso - The Uruguayan Messi.

Also Cory Gibbs and Karim Bagheri. Most of all though I'd have liked to have seen Djimi Traore and Amdy Faye play - just once.

Imagine all of these footballing gods in one team.... One can only dream....

nth_london_addick

Messi for me would love to see him play in the flesh not on tv but in a game

Socrates (spelling) also

Pele

For charlton it would be big sam and prob sailor

Lincsaddick

Dixie Dean, Stan Matthews, Ferenc Puskas

stonemuse

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Regret never seeing George Best play - probably Britain's best in his heyday.

luckily I did a few times ...wonderful. wonderful player ...my favourite ever

red_murph

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Regret never seeing George Best play - probably Britain's best in his heyday.

Lucky enough to see him play for us in Les Berry's testimonial game. Got in from school and my old man said we were off to watch a legend play for Charlton.

Pele or Stanley Matthews for me.

stonemuse

Probably Duncan Edwards ...my old man said he was very special

AdTheAddicK

Akinfenwa !

LenGlover

Has to be Stuart Leary for me given that I started supporting Charlton in season 62/63 and thus would have seen him had he not fallen out with Frank "Tiger" Hill in that pre season.

I was lucky enough to see him play cricket for Kent on quite a few occasions.

creepyaddick

Allan Simonsen

jimmymelrose

I saw Hasselbank play for Chelsea but never for Charlton. I regret this.


Sorry, - edit - just noticed that this joke has already been done.

MuttleyCAFC

I saw Best play in Les Berry's testimonial at the Valley and he was brilliant! Simply brilliant! Anybody else remember that game?

Would like to have seen Sam Bartram play - seemed a real character from the biography I read.

RedArmySE7

nth london addick said:

Messi for me would love to see him play in the flesh not on tv but in a game

Socrates (spelling) also

Pele

For charlton it would be big sam and prob sailor

You've still got a chance of seeing Messi live though NLA, England vs Argentina at Wembley maybe? Charlton at the Nu Camp? ;-)