' One Club player and World Cup Winner dies RIP '
Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:04 am
JACK CHARLTON WHO PLAYED FOR LEEDS UNITED FOR 23 YEARS, ONE CLUB PLAYER & ENGLAND WORLD CUP WINNER SADLY PASSED AWAY RIP 
Leeds United legend Jack Charlton has died
Charlton, who made a club record 773 appearances for Leeds United, has passed away at the age of 85
World Cup Hero Jack Charlton Dies
Jack Charlton, the former Leeds United centre half who helped England win the World Cupin 1966, has died at the age of 85.
Big Jack – as he was affectionately known – spent his entire club career at Elland Road, andwas an integral part of the team that rose from Second Division obscurity to become, undermanager Don Revie, one of the premier club sides in Europe. His 629 League appearancesand 762 competitive games for Leeds are both club records.
As well as the World Cup, which he won alongside his younger brother Bobby, he won theFirst Division title, the FA Cup and League Cup, and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice.After retiring as a player, he became a successful club manager, guiding Middlesbrough tothe First Division, and Sheffield Wednesday from the Third Division to the Second. But hisgreatest coaching achievement came with the Republic of Ireland, whom he led to twoWorld Cup Finals in 1990 and 1994.
Jack Charlton’s death robs us of one of the last remaining links with England’s only WorldCup success.
But it would be a mistake to remember him just for that one momentous victory againstWest Germany at Wembley. Big Jack deserves so much more than that.
Born into a footballing family in the mining town of Ashington in the North East – his motherCissie was a niece of the great Newcastle United and England centre forward Jackie Milburn – his was, in many ways, an unlikely story. Tall and angular, and as physically awkward as his brother Bobby was elegant, he left school to join his father in the local pit. It was only after three months, during which he’d realised how unpleasant life was underground, that he quit to take up the earlier offer of a trial at Elland Road.
Unlike Bobby, who was quickly recognised as one of the emerging stars of the game atManchester United, Jack was a late developer. Don Revie once told him he didn’t rate him,and at one point in the early sixties he nearly moved to Liverpool.
English defender Jack Charlton (left) tries to stop German forward Siegfried Held during the World Cup final on 30 July 1966. Credit: PA
He didn’t win his first England cap until 1965, just shy of his 30th birthday, but he was tobecome a stabilising influence in Alf Ramsey’s defence alongside the incomparable BobbyMoore. As well as being fiercely competitive, he was more skilful that he appeared. Whenhe ventured forward into the opposition half and dribbled past a man, fans would cheer asthough a goal had been scored.
Given that he had an extraordinary propensity to call his players by the wrong names ormispronounce them, he was an unlikely manager too. But he was successful at bothMiddlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday, and unusually for a manager – even in those days– he was never sacked.
His players were fond of him, perhaps because he allowed them the freedom to expressthemselves on the pitch, not to mention the freedom to down a drink or two off it, and hissuccess in taking the unheralded Republic of Ireland to two successive World Cups earnedhim legendary status across the water, as well as the Freedom of the City of Dublin.His achievements brought him rewards far beyond the imagination of a 15 year old miner’sson from the North East coalfields, but he remained true to his roots. Throughout his life heretained his boyhood passions for wildlife, fishing and shooting.
And above all, speak to anyone who knew him well and they will tell you what a likeable andinteresting companion he was.
Leeds United legend Jack Charlton has died
Charlton, who made a club record 773 appearances for Leeds United, has passed away at the age of 85
World Cup Hero Jack Charlton Dies
Jack Charlton, the former Leeds United centre half who helped England win the World Cupin 1966, has died at the age of 85.
Big Jack – as he was affectionately known – spent his entire club career at Elland Road, andwas an integral part of the team that rose from Second Division obscurity to become, undermanager Don Revie, one of the premier club sides in Europe. His 629 League appearancesand 762 competitive games for Leeds are both club records.
As well as the World Cup, which he won alongside his younger brother Bobby, he won theFirst Division title, the FA Cup and League Cup, and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice.After retiring as a player, he became a successful club manager, guiding Middlesbrough tothe First Division, and Sheffield Wednesday from the Third Division to the Second. But hisgreatest coaching achievement came with the Republic of Ireland, whom he led to twoWorld Cup Finals in 1990 and 1994.
Jack Charlton’s death robs us of one of the last remaining links with England’s only WorldCup success.
But it would be a mistake to remember him just for that one momentous victory againstWest Germany at Wembley. Big Jack deserves so much more than that.
Born into a footballing family in the mining town of Ashington in the North East – his motherCissie was a niece of the great Newcastle United and England centre forward Jackie Milburn – his was, in many ways, an unlikely story. Tall and angular, and as physically awkward as his brother Bobby was elegant, he left school to join his father in the local pit. It was only after three months, during which he’d realised how unpleasant life was underground, that he quit to take up the earlier offer of a trial at Elland Road.
Unlike Bobby, who was quickly recognised as one of the emerging stars of the game atManchester United, Jack was a late developer. Don Revie once told him he didn’t rate him,and at one point in the early sixties he nearly moved to Liverpool.
English defender Jack Charlton (left) tries to stop German forward Siegfried Held during the World Cup final on 30 July 1966. Credit: PA
He didn’t win his first England cap until 1965, just shy of his 30th birthday, but he was tobecome a stabilising influence in Alf Ramsey’s defence alongside the incomparable BobbyMoore. As well as being fiercely competitive, he was more skilful that he appeared. Whenhe ventured forward into the opposition half and dribbled past a man, fans would cheer asthough a goal had been scored.
Given that he had an extraordinary propensity to call his players by the wrong names ormispronounce them, he was an unlikely manager too. But he was successful at bothMiddlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday, and unusually for a manager – even in those days– he was never sacked.
His players were fond of him, perhaps because he allowed them the freedom to expressthemselves on the pitch, not to mention the freedom to down a drink or two off it, and hissuccess in taking the unheralded Republic of Ireland to two successive World Cups earnedhim legendary status across the water, as well as the Freedom of the City of Dublin.His achievements brought him rewards far beyond the imagination of a 15 year old miner’sson from the North East coalfields, but he remained true to his roots. Throughout his life heretained his boyhood passions for wildlife, fishing and shooting.
And above all, speak to anyone who knew him well and they will tell you what a likeable andinteresting companion he was.
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Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:08 am
RIP JACK CHARLTON
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Re: ' One Club player and World Cup Winner dies RIP '
Sat Jul 11, 2020 6:02 pm
Back in the day we used to assemble at Kwiksnacks on Wood Street to meet the opposing fans coming off the trains. On the day we played Leeds in the cup, someone came in and said the first train was in, so we piled over to the station to meet them with tea and biscuits as we used to. Got there as the Leeds players were coming out of the station and onto a waiting coach, I found myself about 3 feet from Jack Charlton and as he was about to get on the coach, I called him a fking giraffe. He came at me, and screamed in my face "fook off you little kent, frightened the shit out me, he was a big bloke. But at least the players then used to talk to the fans. RIP.
Re: ' One Club player and World Cup Winner dies RIP '
Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:13 pm
RIP - Big Jack .
Re: ' One Club player and World Cup Winner dies RIP '
Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:30 pm
RIP Jack Charlton
Re: ' One Club player and World Cup Winner dies RIP '
Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:43 am
Everyone loved Jack.. his Italia 90 exploits with Ireland were fantastic.. good fishing stuff also. RIP