Big Jack putting God under pressure
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Great memories
Sad news. What an absolute legend. Great time to grow up watching Irish football.
Certainly my best Irish football memories came under Jack.
He was blessed with an insanely good set of players.
He was blessed with an insanely good set of players.
Ha. Yes, that was always the second part of what I was told when my dad mentioned how nice and popular Jack Charlton was, that Bobby was the opposite on both counts!
I am not sure if there was much of a backlash at the time of his appointment.
Funnily enough it actually should have been Bob Paisley taking the Irish manager's job instead of Jack.
There was a committee who had to vote on their preferred choice of three candidates for the job, Bob, Jack and some other manager whose name I cant recall.
After the first round of voting, Bob received just over half the number of votes but for some reason the committee decided to have a second vote for the two highest placed candidates, which was Bob obviously and Jack.
When the second vote took place someone changed their mind by not voting for Bob and so Jack got the manager's job.
Or something along those lines.
Personally I don't remember being bothered by the appointment of Jack but I was gutted that Bob missed out.
We’d have won the WC with Bob.
1966 World Cup. after the quarterfinal v Argentina, their players were kicking up a fuss, banging on walls and doors, wanted to get into the England dressing room.
Something Big Jack was quite happy about, apparently. I can hear him saying 'Just let them in'. 🙂
Something Big Jack was quite happy about, apparently. I can hear him saying 'Just let them in'. 🙂
Mick McCarthy is as close to the second one as you can get
Oh yeah...I just had a quick look at the list and saw a bunch Irish flags, one northern, one Italian and one English.
The FAI and something dodgy.
How dare you.
I had no problem with us appointing an Englishman as there was no suitable Irish candidate at the time BUT I was horrified when they chose Jack. I thought he hadn't a clue. I was at our first match under him; my mate and I stayed too long in the pub before the game and missed the first 4 minutes - by which time Ian Rush had scored what proved to be the only goal in the game as we lost 0-1 to Wales. It was an abject performance and just confirmed my opinion that he would be an awful manager.
From 1988 - 2004 were golden years, nobody cared that we were very dull and unattractive to watch.......everyone played as if their lives were at stake, the players and the crowd believed in Jack's ideas, principles and style. The craic that Jack gave us in those 6 years, it was sheer joy, the piss ups in the pubs were incredible....you had to be in the pub hours before kick off to be sure of getting in.
The Romania game was the stand-out achievement, it was on a Monday, there was no official government announcement that it would be a national holiday but all businesses knew that nobody was going to work that day so Ireland came to a standstill. 3 hours before kick off you couldn't move in my local (The Dropping Well in Milltown)........it had a capacity of about 350 people, I reckon there were probably nearer 600 in there. The celebration afterwards went on...and on........and on...and on.
Thanks for the memories Jack YNWA.
Scurrilous rumours
I was watching a programme about him a couple of months ago. There was a small backlash from a very small section fans. There was a sign at his first game saying "Go home Union Jack". The backlash didn't last long once the team was doing and people really took to him on a personal level. I was very young so don't remember when he took over but remember a lot of Italia 90 and onwards. Everyone really loved watching Ireland back then. It was great. They should put a statue of him at Landsdowne Road.
Think I read it in Sir Roger's autobiography.
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