Couple of lovely stories from Thirkers. If you haven’t already, check out his website at www.thirkersleeds.co.uk<http://www.thirkersleeds.co.uk> so many lovely pictures of our heroes.
Jack Charlton, God Bless you and Thanks………..Another of my Heroes Gone……. Here’s a couple of amusing true stories about my meetings with Jack Charlton. As I say these are true and not made up. They both amused me at the time and I still smile whenever I think about him. The first story of meeting him was in 1963. in Leeds, on a Sunday afternoon. At the time I was courting my first wife. I didn’t get on with her father at this time, so when we met it was at the the bottom of the road, leading up to the Whincover Estate. Opposite this, is the Ring Road and years go it was a vast green area with a cricket field. I got there a bit early and as it happened, being Sunday afternoon there. Was a cricket match being played. I parked up my Vespa scooter just off the road and there used to be a couple benches for spectators to sit on and watch the the cricket, the bench was empty when I sat down. Fooiishly I was a smoker at the time, I got my baccy tin out and started rolling a fag. Just as I started, someone came and sat next to me on the bench, all of a sudden a voice say have you got tabby mate??? I looked to the side of me and to the shock of my life, It was Jack Charlton. I obviously said of course you can after I’d rolled my fag I gave the baccy tin to him and he rolled his own. We both lit up and had a chat, he was a lovely man, so natural, unaffected a real decent ordinary bloke. The next time I met him, was in Malton near York. Jeannie, my missus and myself were at a Ford Dealership, Malton, launch of a new Ford or something. We were invited because the previous year we had bought a new Ford van and we went along because we knew Jack, Charlton was a guest speaker, along with the 'now' infamous Stewart Hall. This was in about the mid eighties and I was a Charter Boat, Angling Skipper. At the refreshment interval, knowing Jack was a keen angler I approached him and gave him one of my business cards, thinking maybe sometime I would get a booking from him. He took the card got out a pen, signed the card and gave it straight back to me. I explained the reason for the card and we both had a good laugh. At question time, I was first up and I asked him. "Why on earth did you never manage Leeds United”. He said “Simply because they never asked me”. He would have been great as Leeds Manager, in all his managerial positions he did well, even at international level. That’s another record breaking Leeds United legend and World Cup winner that have gone…. God Rest His Soul, and heartfelt condolences to his family. ==================================== There will never be another Leeds United player to touch the magnificent record of Jack Charlton,. A one club man, He started as youngster in the same team with the late great John Charles. He will now be spoken of in the same breath as the Gentle Giant, John Charles./ John Charlton OBE DL (born 8 May 1935) is an English former footballer and manager who played as a defender. He was part of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. He spent his entire club career with Leeds United from 1950 to 1973, helping the club to the Second Division title (1963–64), First Division title (1968–69), FA Cup (1972), League Cup (1968), Charity Shield (1969), Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (1968 and 1971), as well as one other promotion from the Second Division (1955–56) and five second-place finishes in the First Division, two FA Cup final defeats and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final defeat. His 629 league and 762 total competitive appearances are club records. He is the elder brother of former Manchester United forward Bobby Charlton, who was also a teammate in England's World Cup final victory. In 2006, Leeds United supporters voted Charlton into the club's greatest ever XI. Called up to the England team days before his 30th birthday, Charlton went on to score six goals in 35 international games and to appear in two World Cups<https://www.bing.com/search?q=FIFA%20World%20Cup%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> and one European Championship<https://www.bing.com/search?q=UEFA%20European%20Championship%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE>. He played in the World Cup final victory over West Germany in 1966, and also helped England to finish third in Euro 1968 and to win four British Home Championship<https://www.bing.com/search?q=British%20Home%20Championship%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> tournaments. He was named FWA Footballer of the Year<https://www.bing.com/search?q=FWA%20Footballer%20of%20the%20Year%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> in 1967. After retiring as a player he worked as a manager, and led Middlesbrough<https://www.bing.com/search?q=Middlesbrough%20F.C.%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> to the Second Division title in 1973–74, winning the Manager of the Year award in his first season as a manager. He kept Boro as a stable top-flight club before he resigned in April 1977. He took charge of Sheffield Wednesday<https://www.bing.com/search?q=Sheffield%20Wednesday%20F.C.%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> in October 1977, and led the club to promotion out of the Third Division<https://www.bing.com/search?q=Football%20League%20Third%20Division%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> in 1979–80. He left the Owls in May 1983, and went on to serve Middlesbrough as caretaker-manager at the end of the 1983–84 season. He worked as Newcastle United<https://www.bing.com/search?q=Newcastle%20United%20F.C.%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> manager for the 1984–85 season. He took charge of the Republic of Ireland national team<https://www.bing.com/search?q=Republic%20of%20Ireland%20national%20football%20team%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> in February 1986, and led them to their first ever World Cup in 1990<https://www.bing.com/search?q=1990%20FIFA%20World%20Cup%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE>, where they reached the quarter-finals. He also led the nation to successful qualification to Euro 1988<https://www.bing.com/search?q=UEFA%20Euro%201988%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE> and the 1994 World Cup<https://www.bing.com/search?q=1994%20FIFA%20World%20Cup%20wikipedia&form=WIKIRE>. He resigned in January 1996 and went into retirement. He is married with three children. 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