Among the former footballers to have been knighted are 1966 World Cup winners Geoff Hurst and Bobby Charlton, former ...

a player Charlton revered, crossed the ball for the goal, and the Scotland goalkeeper Tommy Younger congratulated him afterwards. It was a mark of how greater Britain felt about the boyish Bobby ...

Scotland on Sunday has an interview with defected ... Express says football is in mourning after the death of Sir Bobby Charlton. The tabloid leads on claims Islamic extremists are attempting ...

FORTY-ONE years ago, only a few months after the Munich air disaster, a young Sir Bobby Charlton travelled north to make his debut for England against Scotland in front of 134,000 souls at Hampden ...

Robert “Bobby” Charlton, one of the great glories of ... He made his England debut against Scotland on April 19, 1958, two months after the plane crash. Charlton played in four World Cups ...

I played for Scotland against England and the first thing we said when somebody mentioned Bobby Charlton was the nearest player to him, kick him. Never mind the ball, kick him. That’s the only ...

two – Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Geoff Hurst, the only surviving members of the legendary 1966 England team. Wrong! In a quiet corner of Scotland, another retired player is describing what it ...

READ MORE: Bobby Charlton: Football fans pay classy tribute ... scoring in the defeat of Scotland at Hampden. Typically he played down his call-up saying he'd only been picked “because of ...

He has convinced former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, a fellow son of Govan, and Liverpool’s Scotland captain Andy Robertson to become ambassadors, created a network of wealthy ...

Rest in peace, Sir Bobby." Charlton, who made his international debut against against Scotland at Hampden Park in April 1958, just over two months after the Munich air disaster, was the fifth ...

Sir Bobby at Old Trafford in ... Four weeks before that final Charlton won the first of his 106 England caps, scoring in the defeat of Scotland at Hampden. Typically he played down his call ...