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Loved John Humphrey, perhaps the greatest right back the Club have had in the modernish era! Yes, he was better than 5'3"!!!
Forced to join Palarse as part of our deal to play at Selhurst.... I am sure @Royston Vasey will confirm this, he was a wing back in a time when full backs just defended, before his time as a player.
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Bob Curtis was a very close second behind Humph. Bob was a more traditional right back in line with Andy Nelson's football philosophy.
John Humphrey was a cracking left back. He should have played for England - Sir Bobby Robson
remarked that he was very unlucky to be behind Kenny Sansom and Gary Stevens at the time.That crop of Charlton players - 1985 to 1990 - is my all time favourite in our shirt.
John Humphrey was a cracking left back. He should have played for England - Sir Bobby Robson
That crop of Charlton players - 1985 to 1990 - is my all time favourite in our shirt.
John Humphrey was a right back, Mark Reid was a left back. I agree that he was very unlucky not to play for England. Lennie Lawrence built a very good team out of nothing.
Well not exactly nothing
… Lennie had a ball of string and half a roll of sticky tape 
Thank you Dick, I was sure that Humph was a right back but @Royston Vasey made up that story about one of the Gentlemen of football (Robson) that I thought I may have been mistaken.