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Remembering Sir Bobby Charlton

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports

4.34.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This is a special episode celebrating the life of England and Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton. Mark Chapman is joined by former England strikers Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer, as well as former Man Utd captain Steve Bruce. Also hear from football correspondent John Murray, former England manager Roy Hodgson, ex-Man Utd players Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick, and Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola. And hear archive audio from Sir Bobby himself on winning the World Cup.

02:05 Football correspondent John Murray 03:30 Sir Bobby Charlton on winning the World Cup 05:05 Gary Lineker on ‘England’s greatest ever player’ 09:10 Alan Shearer and Steve Bruce on a fellow son of the northeast 14:20 Former England manager Roy Hodgson on a ‘humble and charming man’ 15:45 Ex-Man Utd players Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick reaction 17:45 Man City boss Pep Guardiola sends ‘big hug’

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

A remarkable man.

0:08.0

His story, you know, his life story is incredible.

0:12.0

The man is just a walking legend.

0:17.0

He is a fantastic person.

0:20.0

I like him, I love him, very, very much.

0:23.0

Of course, he was a great man, but he helped us also to be successful by his presence.

0:28.0

A life touched by tragedy.

0:31.0

I always felt that the Bobby went into Munich as a boy that came out as a man.

0:39.0

I put them about 15-20 yards away. I thought they were dead.

0:45.0

I'm sure at the time they would have been thinking, well, I have a play again.

0:50.0

But he not only played again, I mean, he won everything that he could possibly win.

0:55.0

A purest, a lover of the simple things.

1:00.0

Bob would have played football with him or not.

1:03.0

Whenever he'd say in play, he always had that sweep in the other hair.

1:08.0

We had a bit of a laugh about that, you know, but he wasn't going to change it because of us.

1:14.0

He turned despair into the extraordinary.

1:18.0

Different class? Absolutely different class.

1:20.0

Every generation comes by, you get a naturally gifted play.

1:23.0

If you used to say, give them a book of Bobby.

1:26.0

Here's some from Charter. He's worth trying.

1:31.0

You just got to see how much the goals, I mean, they're just unbelievable goals.

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