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Thread: Bobby Charlton RIP

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    Bobby Charlton RIP

    Sad

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    Really sad news, wasn’t he suffering with Alzheimer’s?

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    RIP, many are described as icons or legends, no disputing that Bobby Charlton was.

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    Footballing Legend no question.

    RIP.

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    Only Geoff Hurst left from the 1966 team now.

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    R.I.P. Bobby. As a young 'un. He was my favourite non City player

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68 View Post
    R.I.P. Bobby. As a young 'un. He was my favourite non City player
    He really was a wonderful player and boy could he hit a ball.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tpcnw View Post
    Only Geoff Hurst left from the 1966 team now.
    Couldn’t find out on Google if Beckenbauer is the only German left from ‘66 Final. Edit...just discovered that Wolfgang Overath is still here, so that’s at least three still going out of the 22.

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    A genuine great of the game - England were struggling in 1966 until he scored that cracker in their second game against Mexico. So fitting that he scored two in the 68 European Cup Final after what he went through ten years earlier.

    RIP

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    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    Couldn’t find out on Google if Beckenbauer is the only German left from ‘66 Final. Edit...just discovered that Wolfgang Overath is still here, so that’s at least three still going out of the 22.
    Schnellinger, Schulz, Weber and Siggi Held are still alive as well. Six Germans still alive, remarkable really.

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    My dad (who passed in 1994) had very little interest in football but he had an empathy for the Manure post Munich and Bobby Charlton in particular. Therefore this is more than a sad day for me, it’s the loss of another linkage to my childhood.

    RIP Bobby, a gentleman, great footballer and true legend.

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    Re: Bobby Charlton RIP

    RIP
    An absolute legend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    Schnellinger, Schulz, Weber and Siggi Held are still alive as well. Six Germans still alive, remarkable really.
    So the Germans win in extra time.

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    Re: Bobby Charlton RIP

    Incredible life.
    Survived an awful air crash
    Great footballer
    Inspiration to so many footballers after him.
    Inspired kids kicking footballs around the streets to emulate him.
    A legend & A National Treasure.

    Knighthoods get chucked around way too easily, this man deserved it...

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    Thought he died years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan Lung View Post
    Thought he died years ago.
    No, no, no that was Mr Sugden (Brian Glover).

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    Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
    Incredible life.
    Survived an awful air crash
    Great footballer
    Inspiration to so many footballers after him.
    Inspired kids kicking footballs around the streets to emulate him.
    A legend & A National Treasure.

    Knighthoods get chucked around way too easily, this man deserved it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    No, no, no that was Mr Sugden (Brian Glover).
    https://youtu.be/dRDXJTACdfA?si=wJxhhIhVphkoGQ3-

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    A true great

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    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    Schnellinger, Schulz, Weber and Siggi Held are still alive as well. Six Germans still alive, remarkable really.
    Is it just a coincidence? I’m not sure, I remember reading something about Dennis Law where he talked about his time in Italy in the early sixties. Apparently, he saw little sign of the British game’s drinking culture, which would continue for decades, and the domestic players’ diet was healthier than your typical British player back then.

    Also, they just interviewed Nobby Stiles’ son on Radio 5 and he said that six of the World Cup winning side had a dementia caused by persistent head tremor - traditionally, the British game was always played with the ball in the air more than it was elsewhere.

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    Not many people have a hair style named after them either, never could ‘get’ a ‘Charlton’ myself. Nowadays men do tend to go bald gracefully. (Special mention to Ralph Coates, whose didn’t seem to stay in place as much as Bobbys did, Harmony Hairspray available at Old Trafford perhaps)

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    He was one of those players known and respected throughout the world.

    I can vaguely remember an advert in the 70’s where a typical Englishman abroad, on holiday, was attempting to talk to a local. From what I remember, after a short while of nonsense talk, they started to bandy about names of footballers, and Bobby Charlton was one.

    Football, the international language.

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    Great footballer and interesting character. Loved by everyone apart from his brother

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    Quote Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanton View Post
    Great footballer and interesting character. Loved by everyone apart from his brother
    Cissie Charlton, their mother, what a character she was. Very articulate and strong. The sister of Jackie Milburn. Jack said in a documentary i watched that Bobby was a 'Mummy's Boy' and Cissie agreed with him! She could play as well. Fascinating family.

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    Respect. He was the first footballer I ever heard of. I remember waking up on Christmas morning aged 4 or 5 surprised to open a package with a West Ham kit. It was because I'd said Bobby Moore instead of Bobby Charlton. I never became a West Ham fan or a Man Utd fan.

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