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“I saw grown men cry,” Charlie said.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“He said ‘Charlie, I can boast, I was here when we beat England’.”<\/p>\n
Six years later there was another iconic win, this time against Italy at the World Cup and again, Charlie was there.<\/p>\n
Those great victories were masterminded by Jack Charlton, who Charlie said was the best man manager he ever worked under.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
“He said ‘I’m asking you a simple question, what happened last night?’,” Charlie said.<\/p>\n
“I said ‘boss hang on a second, if I tell you then you’re involved and you’ve got problems to resolve.<\/p>\n
“I tell you what I’ll do, if I say to you everything is resolved, then it’s all resolved.<\/p>\n
“So Jack said, ‘that’s all I want to know, we’ll leave it at that,’<\/p>\n
“I got away with that gag every time there was a problem.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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