BBC - Match of Their Day: Jack Charlton (8/3/99)

Garth Crooks talks to Jack Charlton about his playing career with Leeds United and England.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000...

[@pmacc3557]

Big Jack, beautiful man gave us great memories

[@IanEckert1977]

RIP Jackie Charlton...I got my photograph with him for my local newspaper In 1989...When I came out my 5 week Coma...

[@alanadair4893]

Spent 15 min in his presence in Thornhill outside about to go fishing,Sunday morn I was delivering papers,rods in hand I said your jack Charlton. He replied I am that my lad ,never forgot talking football with a true great, 😊😊

[@ShaneC27]

Some of my greatest childhood memories in Ireland was watching Jack’s teams play. He’ll never be forgotten here

[@pmacc3557]

Oh yes. I tell my kids bout him and those days and show them Put em under pressure

[@markcoogan6009]

We wouldn't swap you for the world either Jack! ABSOLUTE LEGEND

[@ericokeeffe5054]

What an absolute legend changed my whole life made me a better person me growing up in 80s dublin made me want to be that football player RIP jack

[@conwaynoel3715]

A wonderful man, may God bring him home .

[@markc3258]

As an Irish man I adored big Jack He walked on water IMO

[@alanpwhelan]

He always comes across as a real gent. No ego just very down to earth. We were very lucky to have him as a Manager for those 10 years. Thank you for your service and all the joy, rest in peace.

[@mikecleary8307]

Great show. RIP Jack.

[@kevinfillingham5255]

Brilliant interview. He did wonders. RIP. Top gent.

[@jay-cm3hb]

We were a match for anyone back then. Thanks for the memories jack... RIP big man

[@kevb6597]

Loved and adored

[@glynburchell6716]

Best memories ever remember myself and my Grandfather watching the 1990 world Cup together what a time

[@michaelhoggarth89]

Mrs H 🇬🇧 .. I remember in 1977 on the Queens Jubilee meeting Jack..I was 10 yrs old & didn't realise how famous he was or what a good player he was... My older brother's loved him BUT they knew more about football than I do today... I remember him ( At lakes estate Redcar ) willing me on to win all the activities of that day...I didn't do bad but I know today I was 💩 BUT he praised me and even though I won very little Jack made me feel I was the biggest winner ever...He gave me the confidence to believe in myself & not to focus on my failures... He was so great & I thank him for his attention to me & his encouraging words.. He made me make a stand & fight throughout my early dark days..Thank you Jack & RIP...You made a difference to many lives including mine...❤🏐

[@RebelofIreland]

Thanks Jack. Thank you for everything. You gave us memories for the rest of our lives.

[@williamotoole5183]

A lovely interview, a lovely man Big Jack, did a lot for Ireland

[@imnotavingthat6813]

Such a compelling man, i am looking for every video there is on him... An absolute Giant of the game and life itself. Never to be Forgotten

[@woolmer608]

RIP Big Jack,had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times.Really nice guy and so friendly and kind to the fans.

[@damiendaly983]

rip legend from liverpool irish

[@johntiswell7599]

To think when Jack was Ireland manager we were a game for any country in the world . Great times growing up with Jackie as Ireland manager :)

[@moc7323]

Top top players to pick in fairness

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

@@moc7323 He got the best out of them, though.

[@ggmm6182]

@@TheLastAngryMan01 most of them were English 😂

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

@@ggmm6182 A dog can be born in a stable, it doesn’t make it a horse.

[@ggmm6182]

@@TheLastAngryMan01 I believe that was a quote from the Duke of Wellington when asked if he considered himself Irish or English after he won the battle of Waterloo 😂😂, Ultimately I believe 6 of the starting 11 players who got Ireland to the world cup quarter final in 1990 we're born and raised in England and 1 from Scotland, Jack Charlton used to put posters up in the dressing rooms of English clubs saying if you have any Irish grandparents please contact me that says it all really, The Irish born players most of them weren't good enough so jack got the English player's who weren't good enough for England to play for the Republic, smart manager and good decision

[@TheIkaraCult]

I have Jack's signature framed on my shelf. I didnt actually meet him, but my mum gifted it to me at Christmas. It's one of the first things i would go in for in a fire.

[@francismeehan5298]

Give a lash jack...man ...the 90s growing up in Ireland where a special time ....I don't see how we can ever get back to the glory days....

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

A great great football man... RIP Jack.

[@paulbrennan3996]

R.I.P big Jack True Gentlemen not many old school Footballer's around today LEEDS UNITED 🦚 Legend only English man to have the freedom of Ireland 🍀 respect big man gone never Ever forgotten 🙏👏🦚🍀🤍💛💙✊👊

[@FACELOWNER]

Dear old Garth asking every question like he's a QC in the Old Bailey and his life depends on it..!!

[@dpj1]

10:31 made me laugh, “I remember…” finger to the chin

[@jerryoshea3116]

Yes,he was suffering with the burden of such responsibility in how to make every (q) seem so deep and meaningful and there's Jack with his no nonsense straightforward forward replys!.. And one of the most famous Heavyweights Prizefighters of all time was once asked what was it like to be Black by a wealthy& curious white woman.and he said ' We eat cold eels and think distant thoughts' which was such a dry response ( Something he was known for)..But Gareth ain't know JJ!

[@wythenshawekid1597]

Big jack legend

[@tbonetone1]

A true football legend.

[@darraghwhite7993]

A great man our jack rip from dara from dublin

[@cloudsparrow7729]

that was really good. Supported the Boro from Jack's time with Souness and Alan Fatty Foggon. Poor Garth Crooks will always be remembered for trying to explain the offside law to Mr Blobby :)

[@Jacques-Le-Marois]

Real men like him is what we need now….

[@peopleoflisbon]

great interview

[@martinfinlay5971]

God bless you Jack.

[@freespiritnufc5661]

A true Geordie legend wor jack simples ☃️🎄

[@andywallace1220]

I played a round of golf behind Jack at Ponteland golf club - by gosh that man had a potty mouth!

[@smiler2345]

Good old Garth at 10:30 :)

[@CK-dd7eq]

I'm getting the word....

[@mickey841q]

RIP Big Jack. Republic of Irelands gain was England's loss. Would have been a really good choice to take over after Sir Bobby instead of Graham Taylor.

[@lukesenior4702]

1992 was the time when the Irish were at their strongest. How they didn’t make Euro 92 is anyone’s guess. Only 8 teams in it, mind. Well. 6. England and Scotland might as well have stayed at home.

[@darrenlamb5640]

@@lukesenior4702 I wish we had!

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

@@lukesenior4702 Agreed. Failure to qualify for Euro 92 boiled down to two things IMO: 1) Ray Houghton missing a couple of sitters at Wembley; 2) Packie Bonner messing up for two goals against Poland. Two things that Irish side lacked were a pacy forward and a decent goalie. It was unfortunate for Jack that Shay Given wasn’t born ten years sooner.

[@jerryoshea3116]

​@@TheLastAngryMan01 Valid points,and I just think with more success comes expectation and sometimes it appeared they weren't always happy playing his particular style? .Now the Rugby team have somehow embraced not being the 'underdog' but they have less competition to contend with!

[@seltaeb3302]

I wish he had managed Leeds when Don Revie left. No one ever asked him which puffed up Crooks should have done instead of thinking he was doing Mastermind.

[@CK-dd7eq]

RIP Jack 🇮🇪

[@markc3258]

Holland knocked us out of Euro 88 Wc 94 Euro 96 Ouch

[@wildbill8635]

The last of the great football characters player & manager. Now its all large chqs & when a manager takes a small provincial town (Leics) to win their top league & then next season struggles in lower half position of same league & gets the sack because millions of pounds is at stake. Thankyou & Goodbye. This is how football now operates & I want nothing to do with it. The Championship, yeah yeah DIV 2! aint much better. The third & fourth tiers is were the real British football heart still beats. I wouldn't wish my team to be promoted from the third tier as the top 2 divs just ruins little-ish clubs. Sad but true. Going Downnn Going Downnn Going Downnn & Stay!

[@jamesh2003]

Could have chosen a better location for the interview than the old Wembley crappers 😂😂

[@doreenocean4764]

at most...phere and acustics i get .....but interviewing big jack.... in the jacks... no....thank you for the memories.... mr chalton....

[@adampowell5481]

I always thought Jack was from Yorkshire but had a weird voice

[@TheKingfisher10]

Good interview but garth brooks seemed to be reading off an auto cue and seemed totally rehearsed in his reaction to Jack's answers

[@nigefal]

He is like that all the time, sort of odd.

[@seltaeb3302]

This would be good except annoyingly Garth Crooks is asking the questions in his fabricated 'look how importantly I sound voice'.

[@moc7323]

Drug test in 66 Wow didn’t think they done that then

[@MadHatter1980]

Forgotten just how shite Garth was at T.V 😂

[@gameofthrow-ins8867]

36.54

[@TheRedleader01]

what a legend but i am forest and he was dirty leeds,just saying....

[@ER-gw2xz]

Why did Crooks keep pointing at Big Jack? Disrespectful.