CHARLTON ATHLETIC
FourFourTwo UK
|May 2025
Lifelong Addick Paddy Pamment recalls random horse chants, play-off final limbs and bosses hiding in laundry bins
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XI
BEST: Dean Kiely, Luke Young, Richard Rufus, Jorge Costa, Chris Powell, Johann Berg Gudmundsson, Mark Kinsella, Claus Jensen, Ademola Lookman, Darren Bent, Clive Mendonca.
WORST: Yohann Thuram-Ulien, Simon Francis, Tahar El-Khalej, Roger Johnson, Djimi Traore, Keith Gillespie, Amdy Faye, Christophe Lepoint, Jesper Blomqvist, Izale McLeod, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
PLAYER
B: We're really proud of our academy, so Ademola Lookman. The huge strides he and Joe Gomez have made in football, after we gave them their breakthroughs in SE7, have been phenomenal.
W: How long have you got? If I can only have one: Djimi Traore. More of a liability than Barcelona's current balance sheet.
MOMENT
B: Patrick Bauer's stoppage-time winner in the 2019 League One Play-off Final. Absolute limbs.
W: Watching former owners ESI unravel into a true bunch of chancers. The more we dug, the more we feared whether we would have a club to support.
GAME
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