Sir Bobby Charlton

guitars4you

A big loss - A true gentleman- A true legend 
RIP

Jaycee

guitars4you said:

A big loss - A true gentleman- A true legend 
RIP

Same here, ..... and that's coming from a Liverpool fan

Fingers657

Very sad news.
Another brilliant player and great ambassador for the game gone.
RIP Sir Bobby and thanks for 1966.

Jonathangus

A legend indeed.  RIP, Sir Bobby.

Wazmeister

A legend, and a gentleman. Thanks for everything Bobby.

bobacco

Absolute titan of the English game. RIP. 

swiller

RIP. Geordie boy, they make em different up there. Colossal gentleman of the game.

DB1

One of the all time greats. What a player, and an absolute gentleman. RIP Sir Bobby.

Philly_Q

I honestly though he'd died a while ago.  I guess I mixed it up with the news of his dementia diagnosis.  So this took me by surprise, but sad news indeed.  RIP.

Shrews

Superb footballer and what a story his life was. Munich disaster survivor, European Cup winner, Ballon D'or winner and of course WC winner. Man Utd through and through, played with the very best.

Difficult for Sir Alex Ferguson I guess. Recently lost his wife and now this. 

RIP Sir Bobby, just Sir Geoff Hurst surviving from the WC team now I believe.

scrumhalf

A legend, a gentleman and a scorer of some great goals. 

axisus

Fabulous player! Lovely man. True England legend of football. Nice little video summary of him on the BBC website.


Quote from Beckenbauer about the 1966 final:

"[Charlton] was the engine of the England game. In this game I realised how difficult it is to follow him and to mark him because in my opinion, in 1966 in the World Cup, he was the best player in the world."

57Deluxe

RIP Sir Bobby, just Sir Geoff Hurst surviving from the WC team now I believe.

...wer're well into extra time...

MtB

RIP Sir Bobby. Up there with the immortals.

Blaendulais

A gentleman

tone1

He always struck me as a true Gent….RIP 

monkey42

RIP….Legend

bazxkr

Yeh a true legend. A few of the modern so called footballers could learn from him  saw him play many times as a boy altho he was usually doing damage to my beloved Hammers. RIP Bobby

joeyowen

From David Squires (Guardian)

digitalkettle

joeyowen said:

From David Squires (Guardian)

Got something in my eye again ;-/

prudd

Sad to hear that Sir bobby has left us.

I have happy memories of being taken to Man U games as a 10 year old at various London clubs by my sister back in the mid to late 60's.

I was fortunate enough to have met and spoken to Sir Bobby (along with Bestie) after a game at Chelsea as they left the ground. He was really friendly and approachable and was happy to spend a short time to speak to me, along with other fans crowding around the team coach.

As a kid I worshipped him and dreamed that one day I could emulate him and play for Man U.

RIP