One of the biggest flops ever transfer wise I guess. Was he our record signing at the time when we bought him from Barnsley - a million quid I think?
Without looking it up, my only real memories of him were scoring a goal at Selhurst against Wimbledon & missing a crucial penalty against Forest when we still had a bit of chance of avoiding the drop at the end of the season. Might be wrong in these recollections but he was pretty anonymous that season.
That's about it.
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Barnsley's homesick striker, Macedonian Georgi Hristov, says he is finding it hard to get a girlfriend in England because local girls are not pretty and drink too much.
Hristov, 21, who joined Barnsley from Partizan Belgrade for £1.5m last summer, is reported to have told a Belgrade sports magazine: "I'm finding it difficult to find a girlfriend in Barnsley, or indeed settle into a decent way of life.
"The local girls are far uglier than the ones back in Belgrade or Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, where I come from.
"Our women are much prettier. Besides, they don't drink as much beer as the Barnsley girls which is something I don't like at all."
He made his name as an attacking midfielder at Barnsley, was brought to Charlton and played in a different way (defensive).
My recurring memory of Redfearn was a player who banged in great shot after great shot during the warm up and then did very little in the actual matches.
Barnsley played him in the hole in between midfield and attack in a 3-4-1-2, Curbs played him in our 4-4-2 as a central midfielder and he was not mobile enough to do it.
Maybe Curbs thought was if Redfearn was put in a position where he couldn't delegate his defensive responsibilities to 2 other centre midfielders then he'd hold his position better, but it failed for us too, though not as badly as it failed for Barnsley, we only conceded 56 goals for a -15 goal difference.
Ultimately 2 different managers tried to get the best from Redfearn at premiership level and both failed because he wouldn't or couldn't put in the necessary work. Maybe in a much better side with 2 defensive midfielders you could afford to let Redfearn wander were he willed, but in all likelihood if you had that better side you'd have a better attacking midfielder than Redfearn in that role.
When you read multiple journos stating that he rarely missed from a long shot at Barnsely, and then saw him... Well he hit a shot from all over the place and was more innacurate than Alan Pardew. He was let go by Palace and Oldham after promotion. Terrible player, who at the right club was effective in div 2. Barnsley like Swindon before them played attacking football, and many of their midfielders neglected defensive duties.
Ormiston 3-4-1-2? What rubbish. Is that why they played with Nicky Eaden, and Darren Barnard as first choice players? Both were full backs, and both pushed up as wing backs when they decided to have three at the back. There was no inetween the lines false nine. They just rushed up like madmen from midfield all the time, whilst Bullock and Redfearn were nowhere to be seen in the breakdown.
Congratulations.