Bryan Ruiz, used to play for Fulham for a few seasons. Was a proper flair player, not underrated, however used to play like he glided across the field. Didn't produce enough though, nice to watch
A couple of years back we lost 4-3 at Shrewsbury in the first round of the league cup, we had a fella called Holden play who I think was on loan. That, I'm sure, was his entire Charlton career. I felt for a while this was obscure as it got, although the Checkatrade cup probably adds a new dimension of anonymity, 8-0 wins excepted.
Sam Aiston. Came on as a sub against us for Sunderland in the mid-90's. First time he got the ball and went on a sprint down the pitch from right-back position in front of the Covered End, the whole of blocks E and F were cracking up.
Can't remember exactly what was so amusing about his running style - he was quite tall and slim, but I think he might have had that slightly unfortunate figure that some women have where the arse is massively out of proportion to everything else and you could rest a pint on one of his buttocks! You probably had to be there, but it was funny at the time!
A couple of years back we lost 4-3 at Shrewsbury in the first round of the league cup, we had a fella called Holden play who I think was on loan. That, I'm sure, was his entire Charlton career. I felt for a while this was obscure as it got, although the Checkatrade cup probably adds a new dimension of anonymity, 8-0 wins excepted.
American Goalkeeper Tony Meola. We were playing at selhurst and when we played Watford, after the pre match warm up he spent a good 5-10 minutes talking tactics and generally how he was settling in his new surroundings. I couldn’t get a word in edgeways. I think he thought I was part of the Charlton playing set up or something when in fact I was just a pitch side steward that happened to be working the tunnel area that day.
Jack Brownsword of Scunthorpe United. He played right back and made over 500 appearances. One season he scored a stack of penalties that almost made him leading scorer mid-season. He was a more than useful sprinter and was never booked. According to Wikipedia, he scored 52 of 53 penalties in his career. He earnt a page in special football scrapbook when I was aged about 9. There’s even a road named after him in Scunthorpe.
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The guy who signed for us but never played, basically remember him because one of the other players said he looked like a triangle.
Can't remember exactly what was so amusing about his running style - he was quite tall and slim, but I think he might have had that slightly unfortunate figure that some women have where the arse is massively out of proportion to everything else and you could rest a pint on one of his buttocks! You probably had to be there, but it was funny at the time!
John McDermot the Grimsby full back.
Iwan Roberts with one tooth in his head at Leicester.
David Speedie when at Blackburn, who waved to us after scoring at Upton Park.
Tony Agana at Notts County.
Wayne Allison
John Hendrie
Jan Aage Fjortoft
Marco Gabbiadini
Brian Tinnion
John McGinlay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Smart_Sr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Smart
We were playing at selhurst and when we played Watford, after the pre match warm up he spent a good 5-10 minutes talking tactics and generally how he was settling in his new surroundings. I couldn’t get a word in edgeways.
I think he thought I was part of the Charlton playing set up or something when in fact I was just a pitch side steward that happened to be working the tunnel area that day.
That may have been the game I saw, maybe it wasn't welling?
Some 80s keepers;
Mark Wallington at Leicester City.
Nigel Batch at Grimsby.
Malcolm Webster at Cambridge Utd.
Steve Hardwick at Oxford United.
Ron Hillyard at Gills.
Steve Francis at Chelsea.
David Fry at Crystal Palace.
Gerry Peyton at Fulham.