“I saw grown men cry,” Charlie said.
“There was a man who used to live next door to me and he had gone with his son and he came over to me and he was sobbing.
“He said ‘Charlie, I can boast, I was here when we beat England’.”
Six years later there was another iconic win, this time against Italy at the World Cup and again, Charlie was there.
Those great victories were masterminded by Jack Charlton, who Charlie said was the best man manager he ever worked under.
He recalled one occasion when the boss quizzed him after some players were involved in a “drinking session” the night before which had ended in a “rumpus”.
“He said ‘I’m asking you a simple question, what happened last night?’,” Charlie said.
“I said ‘boss hang on a second, if I tell you then you’re involved and you’ve got problems to resolve.
“I tell you what I’ll do, if I say to you everything is resolved, then it’s all resolved.
“So Jack said, ‘that’s all I want to know, we’ll leave it at that,’
“I got away with that gag every time there was a problem.”
