Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 25 Jul 2020, 17:44
Match of Their Day, tonight at 10.45 on BBC2, is a tribute edition to Big Jack.
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Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 05 Aug 2020, 12:50
Spotted this https://unherd.com/2020/08/jack-charlto ... iod_type=3 about Jack and his north eastern roots, specifically a 1971 Tyne Tees profile “Big Jack’s Other World”. What a character he was.
Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 05 Aug 2020, 14:18
Thanks for posting that. Excellent article and summed Jack up to a tee.Blanc de blanc wrote:Spotted this https://unherd.com/2020/08/jack-charlto ... iod_type=3 about Jack and his north eastern roots, specifically a 1971 Tyne Tees profile “Big Jack’s Other World”. What a character he was.
Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 18 Sep 2020, 09:30
If you’ve 30 minutes to spare there’s a Desert Island Discs currently available featuring Big Jack. It’s an excellent listen highly recommend
Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 18 Sep 2020, 12:15
Heard that before. He comes across really well.
Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 18 Sep 2020, 19:26
Around 1965/66, Leeds United used to send out the players one midweek afternoon to coach schoolboys.
Jack Charlton and Willie Bell were assigned to our school, Leeds Central High, for a few weeks.
They would teach a bit of ball control and a few moves then set up and referee a game for us to practice what they taught us.
They would sometimes join in the game to set things up for one side or demonstrate something.
One week Jack joins in, he's running downfield with the ball, he's running right at me, I'm going to tackle him. Mistake.
I gave it everything I had, I got my foot behind the ball, but it was like running into the Flying Scotsman at 100 mph. Somersaulted though the air, next thing I know Jack is dragging me up by my shirt collar, he says, "Careful lad, don't be doing daft things like that, you might get hurt".
I was hurting for days, worth every bruise though.
Jack Charlton and Willie Bell were assigned to our school, Leeds Central High, for a few weeks.
They would teach a bit of ball control and a few moves then set up and referee a game for us to practice what they taught us.
They would sometimes join in the game to set things up for one side or demonstrate something.
One week Jack joins in, he's running downfield with the ball, he's running right at me, I'm going to tackle him. Mistake.
I gave it everything I had, I got my foot behind the ball, but it was like running into the Flying Scotsman at 100 mph. Somersaulted though the air, next thing I know Jack is dragging me up by my shirt collar, he says, "Careful lad, don't be doing daft things like that, you might get hurt".
I was hurting for days, worth every bruise though.
Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 23 Sep 2020, 10:18
Love that!
Histon FC legend Steve Fallon coached the village school and they won the English Schools FA CUP - amazing ... a little village school in Cambridgeshire beating every school in England - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/camb ... 757505.stm - every bit as amazing as what Bielsa did to the Leeds players
Histon FC legend Steve Fallon coached the village school and they won the English Schools FA CUP - amazing ... a little village school in Cambridgeshire beating every school in England - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/camb ... 757505.stm - every bit as amazing as what Bielsa did to the Leeds players
Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 24 Sep 2020, 07:52
Mick McCarthy on Big Jack a very good read indeed.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... nged-lives
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... nged-lives
Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 24 Sep 2020, 08:06
NottinghamWhite wrote:Mick McCarthy on Big Jack a very good read indeed.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... nged-lives
It was a very good read-somebody posted the link on the ITFC Forum that I am on, because MM wrote it.
Just as an aside there is still a hell of a lot of feeling about MM here in Suffolk and I am one of those that still love the man
I think he would have loved the chance to have managed at Elland Road but any chances of that happening are long gone now.
Re: R.I.P. Big Jack
Posted: 24 Sep 2020, 09:15
Pretty sure Mick Mac was born in Royston, a part of Barnsley where Mrs NW was also born. Always liked the man a proper Yorkie in my opinion. He’s definitely up there with people I’d like a pint with.
Another famous son of the town is Dickie Bird who I often see at the cricket & he’ll always come on sit & chat to us always calling my wife Miss Royston
One day at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton he finished his chat with us & walked off when a lady came over & asked if that was Dickie who had been speaking to us I replied yes. Oh my son who’s cricket mad would love to have had his photo taken with him & pointed to a lad in a wheelchair. I excused myself & caught up with Dickie & told him about the lad. Dickie walked back with me & went over to the boy had his photo taken then spent the next half an hour chatting to him. The lads face was a picture & had me & the wife in tears. Top man.
Another famous son of the town is Dickie Bird who I often see at the cricket & he’ll always come on sit & chat to us always calling my wife Miss Royston
One day at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton he finished his chat with us & walked off when a lady came over & asked if that was Dickie who had been speaking to us I replied yes. Oh my son who’s cricket mad would love to have had his photo taken with him & pointed to a lad in a wheelchair. I excused myself & caught up with Dickie & told him about the lad. Dickie walked back with me & went over to the boy had his photo taken then spent the next half an hour chatting to him. The lads face was a picture & had me & the wife in tears. Top man.