Robert J Wilson recalls the incredible career and life of the legendary Sir Bobby Charlton...
It is highly unlikely that any Englishman will ever achieve the same success, status or admiration that Sir Bobby Charlton did over a 20-year playing career and everything thereafter.
To many admirers of the game, Charlton will always be the greatest English player of all time.
No-one experienced a career quite like his.
As a survivor of the Munich air disaster of 1958, to a European Cup winner a decade later. To the crowning glory of winning the World Cup in his homeland and collecting the Balon d’...