Episode 1811: Our Tribute To Jack Charlton (1935-2020)
Jack Charlton was the most popular Englishman in Irish history, and the news of his death on Saturday morning came as a huge blow to so many people.
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Today we look back at his career as Irish manager, his upbringing in Ashington, near Newcastle in his beloved north-east of England, his relationship with his brother Bobby, and his enduring love of this country.
We speak to his biographer Colin Young about the Jack that he grew to know, his personal warmth, his humility, and his solidarity with the mining communities of his birthplace. And there’s young Eoin interviewing Jack in 2005 – the unabridged version.
We discuss the value of a man with a plan coming into a culture of failure, and how Jack made people love a style of football that opponents hated. Amidst it all there was Dunphy, Giles, letters to the editor… and we take a moment to appreciate how lucky we were to have lived through it all.
Jack Charlton’s main legacy is his making an extraordinary number of people extraordinarily happy, and I can’t think of a better life lived than that.
— Gavin Cooney (@gcooney93) July 11, 2020
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— David Squires (@squires_david) July 14, 2020
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This appears to have made a lot of you cry today but you still seem to love it. It’s Jack in his own words accompanied by the beautiful music of the late Conor Walsh and edited by @Younghorgan????https://t.co/2poxEk2t0z
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