Thanks for all the Feesh

South African defender Mark Fish has confirmed that he has left the club. Indeed, there was some confusion about whether he had already left with reports that he had bought a nice house in Cape Town. He and his wife were recently the victim of a robbery at their Chislehurst home.

He told the club's E mail bulletin, 'There are a lot of things in the pipeline that I am interested in and looking forward to doing in the next few years and the rest of my life,' he said philosophically. Featured in 4-4-2 as a footballing poet, Feesh also has a real appreciation of red wine, but his future may well lie in South African politics. Would that make him the first former Addick to become a politician?

Feesh was a solid defender when he first signed from Bolton, and scored against Manchester United, but slowed down as time went on and never really recovered from a potentially life threatening accident when he fell through a glass coffee table at home. My abiding memory will be of former pitch announcer Brian Cole encouraging the crowd to shout 'Feesh'.

BTW, I am now back south of the border and normal service will be resumed soon. Back to the simple life of commenting on Charlton matters - and a pile of work.