It feels like a little bit of England has died with Sir Bobby Charlton

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October 22, 2023 3:44 pmdied on the day of the week he truly came alive. Of course he did. When Saturday came so did Bobby, matchday firing every fibre of his beautiful being, a divine presence, just him and the ball floating across the greensward.was like breathing to him, so natural it always baffled him how others could not belt one in from 30 yards without breaking step.

He had already lived a life pre-Munich that looked and felt nothing like the post-Munich landscape. The tragedy of 1958, when Charlton survived a runway crash that claimed the lives of eight of his team-mates among 23 dead, including the totemic Duncan Edwards, left a permanent imprint. The loss of Edwards after a fortnight fighting for his life in a Munich hospital was particularly devastating.

 

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