Generous, loyal, funny - everyone loved Big Jack, and boy could he play: Writer who partied through the night with Charlton after World Cup 勝利 支払う／賃金s his own special 尊敬の印

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Whether Jack Charlton was on the football pitch or casting a line into a Scottish river. Or hoisting a glass of Irish stout he could never be mistaken for anyone else.

He had ‘character’ in every pore and sinew. After covering a match at Elland Road, I received a message that the 物陰／風下d 部隊d 経営者／支配人, Don Revie, 手配中の，お尋ね者 to see me in his office. I 恐れるd a けん責（する），戒告 was coming; had I written something 以前 that might have 怒り／怒るd him? Revie 申し込む／申し出d me a beer and then said: ‘I hear you are a friend of Jack Charlton.’

I nodded a yes and Revie said: ‘In that 事例／患者 you have a friend for life.’

Jack Charlton had character in every pore and sinew; his 忠義 was unshakeable

Charlton couldn't be mistaken for anyone else - he was hugely 尊敬（する）・点d by his team-mates

He was 権利. But he had many friends. His 忠義 was unshakeable. He had a bark as they say, but humour was never far behind. His players at club and country level loved him.?

There was a night in Germany, the eve of a big European 選手権 match, with 共和国 of Ireland players and staff, when one of the trainers whispered to Jack, asking if he might have a beer. Jack’s Geordie 発言する／表明する にわか景気d: ‘They can all have a beer. A pint is better than that 血まみれの Coca Cola they’re drinking.’

His players loved him and Ireland’s 参加 in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups 設立するd his le gendary status in his 可決する・採択するd country. いつかs he was misrepresented as a man 気が進まない to part with his money, a bit shy at the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, perhaps.

It’s something of a shame that Charlton didn't get the 適切な時期 to be England 経営者／支配人

That’s a nonsense. It’s true he was rarely able to 支払う／賃金 when he walked into a Dublin 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 but that was because no one would let him. He also had a バーレル／樽 of Guinness in his room which 招待するd guests were able to 株.

Never to be forgotten in my mind is the night after England had won the World Cup in 1966. The 公式の／役人 祝賀 祝宴 was at the 王室の Garden Hotel. I wandered into the foyer just as Jack was 現れるing from the 機能（する）／行事.

He said: ‘Come on, you and I are going out for a few drinks. The others are all here with their wives and girlfriends. Pat (his wife) is at home waiting to have the baby.’

I 抗議するd: ‘But Jack, I’ve only got a tenner on me.’

He pulled a wad of 公式文書，認めるs from his 最高の，を越す pocket and smiled, 説: ‘I got this for wearing those boots today, so we’ll spend this and we’ll spend your tenner too.’

Thousands of people were 封鎖するing the road outside. We were stumped until Jack and I crept 負かす／撃墜する the slope to the street as we stooped behind 総理大臣 Harold Wilson’s car. Imagine that with today’s 安全.

As a coach Charlton showed that he was incredibly knowledgeable and an 初めの thinker

Charlton, pictured with brother Bobby, enjoyed a night to remember after winning the World Cup in 1966

We jumped into a taxi that was already 占領するd and apologised to the 乗客. He had no idea of Jack’s 身元 and in a cultured, very English 発言する／表明する said: ‘I believe there’s been some 肉親，親類d of football occasion today.’

While we said we would take him to his 目的地 and 支払う／賃金 the fare he talked incessantly about an 組織／臓器 recital he was about to give at the Wigmore Hall.

We went straight to the Astor Club and as we walked in the 禁止（する）d 突然の stopped playing and everyone rose to applaud Jack. We never bought a drink all night as 瓶／封じ込めるs kept arriving. The couple at the next （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する 招待するd us 支援する to their house in Leytonstone and we woke up in armchairs as the Sunday papers （機の）カム through the letterbox.

支援する at the hotel, the England 経営者／支配人, Alf Ramsey, was waiting, 石／投石する-直面するd. The players were running late for a photo shoot. “Jack, where have you been? Your bed hasn’t been slept in.”

Jack produced a slip of paper that read: “If 設立する return this 団体／死体 to the 王室の Garden Hotel.”

Memories of Jack, but there are any more. He could be uncompromising but there was golden heart within. Fishing was such a passion that when he was 経営者／支配人 of Sheffield Wednesday on an FA Cup run, the 支持者s took to singing: “We’ll be running 一連の会議、交渉／完成する Wembley with a trout.”

As a coach he was incredibly knowledgeable and an 初めの thinker. He took his Middlesbrough to Anfield when Liverpool were in their Shankly 時代 pomp. No one gave Jack’s team a chance. He 明らかにする／漏らすd later: “I decided that if we didn’t have a centre 今後 Ron Yeats and Co would have no one to 示す.”

Although Charlton could be uncompromising at times, there was a golden heart within him

He told Alan Foggon to run with the ball from midfield. Liverpool were 混乱させるd and Middlesbrough surprised everyone with a 勝利，勝つ.

In that vein, Jack moulded a mix of players into a formidable group, using his 戦術の nous. They were a 発覚 as they were for years later 開始 that World Cup with an astonishing 勝利，勝つ against Italy in New York.

It’s something of a shame that he did not get to manage England. He would have made the very best of the players on 申し込む／申し出.

Now, as we say 別れの（言葉，会） to my old mate, a 抱擁する sadness is tempered, thankfully, by memories of all that he gave to football at club and country level.

I can see him now, singing his favourite Irish song in 前線 of his players and anyone else who happened to be in the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 or at a 地位，任命する match 歓迎会. He wasn’t a gifted vocalist but he could belt out “Dublin in the Rare Old Times” and then they would all sing “Molly Malone.” It was almost a ritual.

He loved the Irish. And they loved him. Didn’t we all?