39 Steps to Greatness: How Jack Charlton took the Boys in Green from also-rans to the world’s centre stage
His uniform was a flat cap that concealed an ebbing, old-school comb-over, a rough and ready pitman’s pragmatism. And, on occasion, a gnawed cigar cupped carefully against the wind. Jack Charlton, son of an Ashington coalminer, custodian of an abrasive, unadorned nature, 1966 World Cup winner; he was the unlikely…
bubmagMay 18, 2020