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Jack Charlton. Rip.
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I tend to agree mate, he was very fortunate with the players available and i dont think he even played the style to get the most out of them, particularly the midfield. At the time we were drunk on the jump in relative success, but that team was loaded with super talent and should have done better and maybe would have under different management.
Still though enjoyed it all thoroughly from an emotion point of view and he will go down in lore, RIP Jack.
gonetomorrow
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Come tae Leith and say that ya radge ye.
Only if there's Sunshine
Aye, I didn't realise the level of player we had until I was much older. But still, amazing memories. I remember watching the Romania match in our next door neighbours, and the entire estate basically charging out of their houses when Bonner made that save
The scenes were just mad and it was an amazing time in the country. He will always be remembered for that and we will thank him for those memories. But with a cold analytical eye we had serious players, better then just lumping it forward and putting teams "under pressure". Some decisions were odd though, Brady out of squads and Dave O Leary was a serious quality footballer to.
Hes an icon now for the times he gave the country but we had a squad to match anyone in Europe at that time, yet it was sold as plucky mentality all built of canny Jack, if im honest i think Jack never got the best out of the quality we had, he fell on his feet really with the quality of player who came through. Not dismissing his memory in anyway, the times in the country were great.
roydo
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Roy Keane agrees with you mate.
He was right to mate, its been proven as well with whats gone on this year with The FAI. Disgusting and a disgrace.
I went to the majority of games under Charlton young as i was in Landsdowne, but i have never steped foot in the new Avivia for an Irish football game, i knew what was going on in the FAI for years - massive corruption - wouldn't give them my money.
roydo
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I know nothing about all of that, but Keane didnt allude to it in his book. Sounds interesting!
gonetomorrow
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I apologise for my remark It was ill conceived and I regret it.
Essentially Irish football had to be bailed out by the government because of this:
Irish soccer on the brink of going bust
With Euro 2020 matches coming up in Dublin, Irish soccer should be in for a windfall. Yet a huge financial scandal at the national association involving its disgraced former CEO has left it on the brink of going bust.
www.dw.com
Its the tip of the ice berg and corruption has been going on for years. What disguts me about the whole thing is Clubs over here went to the wall and wound up in communities, players lost wages, for less owed then the FAI were paying Delaney's rent.
An absolute scandal.
RIP big jack. Responsible or me falling in love with football and probably responsible for FIFA ending the back pass to the keeper! Some man for one man.
I remember watching the Ireland England game (euro 88) in Bootle when I was about 10. All the kids on the street gave me crap before the game about how England would wallop Ireland. Straight after the game the same kids told me they were for Ireland because of the Liverpool players. I remember this cementing my Everton support!
RIP big Jack
Always felt Euro 1996 was the one we missed out on, where Ireland had an excellent squad
Always felt Euro 1996 was the one we missed out on, where Ireland had an excellent squad
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