This player profile from 1979 is so miserable it’s brilliant
Back in the day football magazines and annuals were full of player profiles like this.
Not many of them were worth digging out 39 years later. But this one is and now we can all enjoy it thanks to a chap called Charlie Connelly on Twitter.
It’s Charlton Athletic legend Derek Hales, in case you didn’t know …
Derek Hales with possibly the most miserable player profile in football history, in a #cafc programme from 1979. Still my all-time favourite player, mind. pic.twitter.com/4kd8UgYWNC
— Charlie Connelly (@charlieconnelly) April 24, 2018
Cashback!
Derek Hales with possibly the most miserable player profile in football history, in a #cafc programme from 1979. Still my all-time favourite player, mind. pic.twitter.com/4kd8UgYWNC
— Charlie Connelly (@charlieconnelly) April 24, 2018
People interpreting Killer’s taciturn misanthropy here as some kind of character flaw should remember that he’s grumpy – and armed.
— Charlie Connelly (@charlieconnelly) April 26, 2018
That’s hilarious. Do you think he achieved his personal ambition?
— Ralph Clayton (@theRalphClayton) April 24, 2018
A definite cry for help.
— Charlie Connelly (@charlieconnelly) April 24, 2018
Wish him luck with that pic.twitter.com/IGRcd9J0Ql
— Cllr Molly Giles (@mollygiles2015) April 27, 2018
Looked him up on Wiki – there’s almost nothing there, yet even more obscure players have pages of stuff. Is he due a biography, I wonder…? @ScapegoatCC?
— Anthony McGowan (@anthony_mcgowan) April 24, 2018
It would have to be called ‘Don’t Think The Game Is All Honey’.
— Charlie Connelly (@charlieconnelly) April 24, 2018
I remember sitting on the east terrace reading that and thinking he really couldn’t be bothered. Showed him a copy years later , told him what I thought as a kid and he said yes 😉 #Legend
— Dave Lockwood (@BigDL) April 24, 2018
One wonders what he would have put for thrill if his son hadn’t been born.
— Thunderstorm Bun (@thunderstormbun) April 24, 2018
None
— Jamie Frier (@thefuffa) April 24, 2018
Magnificent. Know’s his weight to the half pound but can’t rattle off the name of another footballer.
— Sam Whyte (@SamWhyte) April 26, 2018
Poor Carol.
— Jason Crawford (@Crawford_J) April 24, 2018
Previous job – communications lol
— Dirty harry (@allconsmod) April 25, 2018
What a gloriously miserable bastard.
— Daragh Mulligan (@dazmanOnline) April 25, 2018
Love that! Derek clearly didn’t want to play ball, did he. Reminds me of the On The Couch feature we used to run about people’s telly viewing habits… pic.twitter.com/jMuHIuTaf8
— Steve Tinniswood (@Tinniswood29) April 26, 2018
