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It's a real shame that the next home game won't be full of spectators so that we can pay tribute to Jack Charlton. For a change, the pre kick-off ritual of putting names of deceased people associated with football in Ireland up on the screen for a minute's silence would have had real resonance.

Remember when he was presented on the pitch before that England friendly a few summers ago?

I hope something fitting is organised.
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Originally posted by Daragho Daragho wrote:

It's a real shame that the next home game won't be full of spectators so that we can pay tribute to Jack Charlton. For a change, the pre kick-off ritual of putting names of deceased people associated with football in Ireland up on the screen for a minute's silence would have had real resonance.

Remember when he was presented on the pitch before that England friendly a few summers ago?

I hope something fitting is organised.


Hopefully the FAI might organise something at a later date when fans will be back properly. Maybe some sort of charity game with the proceeds going to Dementia and Cancer charities in Ireland and England
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A truly great man in every sense.




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Jack's funeral will be on Tuesday 21st July at 10am I believe in Ashington.  I hope it will be on tv.  I would have gone only for the Covid :(
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Bit late, but R.I.P Big Jack. 

Thanks for the memories and the good times. 
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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Originally posted by kelvin kelvin wrote:

Thought the David Squires piece was very well done. Heartfelt but cleverly done as usually is done by Squires.

Jack was football for me. I was an Ireland fan long before I began following club football. I lived for the national team games. He seemed a genuinely good man too.

Only yesterday found a video of Jack and the team spontaneosly visiting my hometown for clay pigeon shooting(!!) and you can see how decent of a man he was. Very approachable. Also, who let Keane have a shotgun FFS?!

https://louthnow.ie/2020/07/13/a-different-kind-of-shooting-practice-when-big-jack-brought-ireland-to-ardee/


I do hope the FAI commemorate his time with the national team and do it justice. It's only right. I fear a statue may be beyond the budget, given the FAI's current... predicament.

Keane with a shotgun!  Imagine he wasn't happy with the shooting facilities!

It's actually even more disturbing seeing him shoot with a smile on his face LOL

Staunton has a big sour head on him. To be fair, the lad was probably annoyed at being dragged back to Co. Louth and not somewhere more exotic.
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Jack was some legend.  Genuinely warm man who was down to earth and one of us. 
Been looking at a lot of videos of him since he died.  The reason he was successful with us was his confidence first and foremost.  He was so confident and sure that we would take on any side in the world and come away with a result. Wasn't false confidence but genuine 'we are one of the best teams int he world' confidence.  He knew we would beat England in 1988 and surprise everyone.  He was amazed that nobody thought that we were a great team. He knew we were and would do the business on a world stage.
His tactics were the right tactics for the time and what we needed at that time.  It was his personality and sheer leadership and confidence that brought us to the promised land. 
Looking at his interview with Bill at the end of 1993 after we qualified and its clear then he had started to doubt himself and this transferred tot he players I think.  He very openly says he wasn;t sure what was wrong with the team and seemed a bit lost on how to put it right.  Then he was in Wexford in April 1994 and says he had doubts about the team but he was confident again after the Germany and Holland game. 
Brilliant man.
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Agreed TJ. In 2014 or so, I was working in a company in Boston. Lots of nationalities, and we all used to get together for games of FIFA. Would be talking about the big jack years with lads from Israel, India, Mexico, the US...

He made us known. People feared us, but could feel the spirit. Jack was a brilliant leader.
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Just came across this.


 


Jack had his own Guinness Tap in his room in Orlando LOL
(About 1min 20secs in)

 


Edited by Denis Irwin - 16 Jul 2020 at 5:05pm
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Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

Just came across this.


 


Jack had his own Guinness Tap in his room in Orlando LOL
(About 1min 20secs in)

 


BrilliantLOL

I must have driven past that hotel a load of times on I-4.  Anyone know what hotel it is?
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FAI sent out a press release tonight asking people to wear green on Tuesday and for all radio stations to play put em under pressure at 12.30
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FAI sent out a press release tonight asking people to wear green on Tuesday and for all radio stations to play put em under pressure at 12.30
 

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Originally posted by wanderer wanderer wrote:

FAI sent out a press release tonight asking people to wear green on Tuesday and for all radio stations to play put em under pressure at 12.30

Will be on Today fm at 3.30 talking about this initiative if anyone fancies tuning in.
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Just watching the Ireland England game at Wembley in 1991 on Eir Sport. What a team we had playing that night
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Ye we had indeed. Remember it well as I had a stitched head after going on the lash and falling over after the 21s match night before in a dark and grim Griffin Park Brentford. Some days and nights. We were afraid of no one and teams were very very wary of us.

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Christ how did Houghton miss 
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Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

Just watching the Ireland England game at Wembley in 1991 on Eir Sport. What a team we had playing that night
One of our best performances under Jack. We were all over them, definitely should have won that. 
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