John Charlton was an English footballer and manager who played as a defender.
66 Facts About Jack Charlton
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Jack Charlton was part of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup and managed the Republic of Ireland national team from 1986 to 1996 achieving two World Cup and one European Championship appearances.
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Jack Charlton spent his entire club career with Leeds United from 1950 to 1973, helping the club to the Second Division title, First Division title, FA Cup, League Cup, Charity Shield, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, as well as one other promotion from the Second Division and five second-place finishes in the First Division, two FA Cup final defeats and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final defeat.
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Jack Charlton was the elder brother of former Manchester United forward Bobby Charlton, who was one of his teammates in England's World Cup final victory.
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Jack Charlton played in the World Cup final victory over West Germany in 1966, and helped England to finish third in Euro 1968 and to win four British Home Championship tournaments.
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Jack Charlton was named FWA Footballer of the Year in 1967.
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Jack Charlton kept Boro as a stable top-flight club before he resigned in April 1977.
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Jack Charlton took charge of the Republic of Ireland national team in February 1986, and led them to their first World Cup in 1990, where they reached the quarter-finals.
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Jack Charlton led the nation to successful qualification to Euro 1988 and the 1994 World Cup.
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Jack Charlton resigned in January 1996 and went into retirement.
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Jack Charlton was married to Pat Kemp and they had three children.
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Jack Charlton's uncles were Jack Milburn, George Milburn, Jim Milburn and Stan Milburn, and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn was his mother's cousin.
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Jack Charlton worked in the mines for a short time but handed in his notice after finding out just how difficult and unpleasant it was to work deep underground.
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Jack Charlton applied to join the police and reconsidered the offer from Leeds United.
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Jack Charlton's trial game for Leeds clashed with his police interview, and Charlton chose to play in the game; the trial was a success and he joined the ground staff at Elland Road.
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Jack Charlton played for Leeds United's youth team in the Northern Intermediate League and then for the third team in the Yorkshire League; playing in the physically demanding Yorkshire League at the age of 16 impressed the club's management, and he was promoted to the reserve team.
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Jack Charlton was given his first professional contract when he turned 17.
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Jack Charlton made his debut on 25 April 1953 against Doncaster Rovers, taking John Charles' place at centre-half after Charles was moved up to centre-forward.
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Jack Charlton then had to serve two years' national service with the Household Cavalry, and captained the Horse Guards to victory in the Cavalry Cup in Hanover.
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Jack Charlton became frustrated and difficult to manage, feeling in limbo playing for a club seemingly going nowhere whilst his younger brother was enjoying great success at Manchester United.
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Jack Charlton took charge of the defence that day, and insisted upon a zonal marking system; Revie agreed to allow Jack Charlton to become the key organiser in defence.
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Leeds made an immediate impact on their first season back in the top flight, however the team gained a reputation for rough play, and Jack Charlton said in his autobiography that "the way we achieved that success made me feel uncomfortable".
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Jack Charlton took responsibility for Peter Osgood's goal in the replay as he was distracted from marking duties as he was trying to get revenge on a Chelsea player who had kicked him.
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Jack Charlton was tried by the Football Association and was found not guilty of any wrongdoing after arguing that the press had misquoted him.
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Jack Charlton admitted that though he never actually had a book of names he had a short list of names in his head of players who had made nasty tackles on him and that he intended to put in a hard but fair challenge on those players if he got the opportunity in the course of a game.
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Ramsey later said that he picked Jack Charlton to play alongside Bobby Moore as he was a conservative player able to provide cover to the more skilful Moore, who could get caught out if he made a rare mistake.
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Jack Charlton played in six of the next seven international victories as England prepared for the World Cup.
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West Germany awaited in the final at Wembley, and they took the lead through Helmut Haller on 12 minutes; Jack Charlton felt that he could have blocked the shot but at the time he believed that Banks had it covered, though it was Wilson who was at fault for allowing Haller the chance to shoot.
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England came back and took the lead, but with only a few minutes left in the game Jack Charlton gave away a free kick after fouling Uwe Seeler whilst competing for an aerial ball; Wolfgang Weber scored the equalising goal from a goalmouth scramble created from the free kick.
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Jack Charlton injured his foot during the game as he broke two sesamoid bones in his big toe.
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Jack Charlton was named in the squad for UEFA Euro 1968, but did not feature in either of England's games.
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England lost in the quarter finals to West Germany, and on the flight home, Jack Charlton asked Ramsey not to consider him for international duty again.
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Jack Charlton was offered the job as manager of Second Division club Middlesbrough on his 38th birthday in 1973.
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Jack Charlton declined to be interviewed for the position, and instead handed the club a list of responsibilities he expected to take, which if agreed to would give him total control of the running of the club.
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Jack Charlton refused a contract, and would never sign a contract throughout his managerial career.
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Jack Charlton decided to first repaint Ayresome Park and to publicise the upcoming league campaign so as to generate higher attendance figures.
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Jack Charlton took advice from Celtic manager Jock Stein, who allowed him to sign right-sided midfielder Bobby Murdoch on a free transfer.
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Some players were already settled at the club and in their positions, whilst Jack Charlton had to work with some of the other players.
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Jack Charlton moved Souness from left midfield to central midfield to compensate for his lack of pace and coached him to play the ball forward rather than side to side as was his instinct.
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Foggon was played in a new role which Jack Charlton created to break the offside trap set by opposition defenders, an extremely fast player he was instructed to run behind defenders and latch on to the long ball to find himself one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
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Jack Charlton was named Manager of the Year, the first time that a manager outside of the top-flight had been given such an honour.
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Jack Charlton continued to manage and change every aspect of the club, and took the decision to disassemble the club's scouting network to instead focus on local talent in Northumberland and Durham.
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However, the club chairman overruled the decision and Jack Charlton remained in charge.
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Jack Charlton applied for the job of England manager after Don Revie quit the role and after Brian Clough was ruled out by the Football Association but did not receive a reply to his application, and he vowed never to apply for another job again and instead wait until he was approached.
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Jack Charlton appointed as his assistant Maurice Setters, who had experience managing at that level but had effectively ruled himself out of another management job after taking Doncaster Rovers to court for unfair dismissal.
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Jack Charlton signed Terry Curran as a winger but eventually moved him up front to play alongside McCulloch.
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Jack Charlton sold goalkeeper Chris Turner to Sunderland and replaced him with the bigger Bob Bolder.
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Jack Charlton further raised the average height of the team by signing uncompromising centre-half Mick Pickering from Southampton.
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Jack Charlton announced his departure from Hillsborough in May 1983 despite pleas from the directors for him to stay.
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Jack Charlton was unpaid except for expenses and only took the job as a favour to his friend Mike McCullagh, who was the club's chairman.
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Jack Charlton signed midfielder Gary Megson and big striker George Reilly.
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Jack Charlton was approached by the FAI to manage the Republic of Ireland in December 1985.
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The first match of the tournament was against England at the Neckarstadion, and Jack Charlton reasoned that the threat posed by English wingers Chris Waddle and John Barnes could be nullified by allowing the English defence to feel comfortable on the ball without allowing them a pass; this made the build-up play slow and containable.
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Jack Charlton scheduled difficult matches before the tournament and Ireland picked up positive results by beating both the Netherlands and Germany away from home.
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Jack Charlton married Pat Kemp on 6 January 1958, and his brother Bobby acted as his best man.
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Jack Charlton was a keen amateur fisherman and took part in field sports.
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Jack Charlton was a founding supporter of the Anti-Nazi League.
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Jack Charlton appeared on Desert Island Discs in 1972 and 1996, and chose to take with him The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the Encyclopaedia of How to Survive, a spyglass, and a fishing rod.
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Jack Charlton was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1973 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
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Jack Charlton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1974 Birthday Honours.
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Jack Charlton was posthumously awarded the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad in 2020.
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Jack Charlton was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of his contribution to the English game.
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Jack Charlton revealed in his 1996 autobiography that he had a strained relationship with his brother Bobby.
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Jack felt Bobby began to drift away from the Charlton family following his marriage to Norma, who did not get along with their mother.
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Jack Charlton died at his home in Northumberland on 10 July 2020 at the age of 85 after suffering from lymphoma and dementia.
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Jack Charlton became the 12th player from the 1966 FIFA World Cup squad to die, after Bobby Moore, Alan Ball, John Connelly, Ron Springett, Gerry Byrne, Jimmy Armfield, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks, Martin Peters, Peter Bonetti and Norman Hunter.