Page 157 - 368603 LP250721 AWY AWY AWY Book (238pp A5)

from Boro as it meant he wouldn’t have to be marked by Charlie again.)
Who was the best manager you played under? Alan Brown. (Charlie and Ian McColl didn’t get on.)
What was your most memorable goal? Away to Norwich in a 1-0 cup win in the very early Sixties.
Did you ever want to play for England? NO! (Despite his London accent he’s very proud of his Irishness and I was surprised to hear that he’d played for Ireland as many as forty times.)
Which other player would you compare yourself to? Jackie Charlton. He admired Bobby Moore very much. (Charlie was the first centre-half to move up and try to score from corners and I remember the tremendous buzz that went around Roker Park when we saw him lumbering up the pitch. He’d head it down very strongly onto the goal-line and it’d hopefully rebound into the net. (In the 2006 World Cup Materazzi scored a very similar goal against the Czech Republic.)
This session lasted for around forty-five minutes and Charlie coped well with it all and kept the audience entertained, only occasionally repeating himself or forgetting to speak into the mic. There were a few repeated themes during his replies and the most noticeable was money. He mentioned that his initial transfer fee from Millwall was £18,000, which could buy thirty-six terraced houses in those
149