R.I.P – Jack Charlton

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    mufc
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    World Cup winner has died at the age of 85.

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    Alfie07
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    R.I.P.

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    nine nine nine
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    Lovely man who I was lucky enough to have had the pleasure of sharing a couple of days with sadly we’ve lost another one of the legends of 66. RIP Big Jack

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    Laughing Lenny
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    The thing I liked most about Big Jack was that he never ever suffered fools or bullshit gladly. He always spoke straight and called a spade a spade.
    That attribute is sadly increasingly rare in professional football – and life in general these days for that matter. It’s so sad.

    Full respect Jack and thanks for the memory.
    Len.

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    Devon Hammer
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    Totally with you both 9 & Len. I remember him getting the RoI to the world cup finals and forgetting half the team players names during a press conference but just laughing it off. Came across as a genuinely decent guy who never forgot his roots. RIP the giraffe.

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    Laughing Lenny
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    Devon, good to see you back on here. Jack Charlton was of another generation. He always said it as he found it and never gave a monkey if it caused any offence, and if it did he would always stand his ground and defend his stance.

    When the England team won the world cup back in 1966 they all went off to the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington to celebrate. But after dinner Jack and Bobby Moore decided to bow out and move on for a good piss-up and a sing-song in East Ham.

    Coincidentally, they got pissed just down the road from where Vera Lynn used to live.
    Another time, another place, another country eh.

    God bless ’em all.
    Len.

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    happyhurling
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    I remember he got the whole country behind him and the football team. Italia 90 was probably when i really fell in love with football and it was all about Jackies Green Army! He did more for Irish football than anyone else in History, he made the nation fall in love with the game. Everyone wanted to be an Irish football player, every single pub in Ireland absolutely packed out when a game was on. Irish shirts and scarfs on almost every person walking down the streets, the Irish flag hanging from lamposts, houses, pubs, cars everywhere you looked was Green, White and Orange! The buzz of the entire country. When Packi Bonner saved that penalty against Romania and David O’ Leary stepped up to put us through to the quarter finals… Don’t think i’ve ever felt tension like it, such a huge moment, the nerves, the eery silence, the fear of him missing. A moment that’s etched in every Irish person’s brain until they die – O’Leary sending the keeper the wrong way and Ireland through to the Quarter Finals of the World Cup! The whole country erupted, it was unbelievable, tears, hugs, complete mayhem. What a time to be alive. Emotion is a funny thing. Looking back now it’s actually quite sad at how long ago it was, how many family and friends have died since and your own mortality brought into sharp focus. It’s a very short thing this life, but football gives it context!

    So give it a lash jack, one last time – “We’re all part of Jackies Army we’re all off to Italy…”!
    RIP

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