Jack Charlton, the beloved former manager of the Republic of Ireland’s national football team, was laid to rest in his native Ashington, Northumberland today, and fans across Ireland came together to ...

Jack Charlton, an uncompromising central defender who played alongside his brother, Bobby, in England’s World Cup-winning side in 1966 before enjoying coaching success with Ireland, has died. He was ...

“Jack Charlton an exceptional leader who had Ireland dancing in the streets.” was how The Guardian headline summed up the career of Ireland’s favorite Englishman. There were many tributes like that.

Jack Charlton will be remembered not just as a World Cup hero for two nations but also as a larger-than-life character with a treasure trove of stories. Here are some of the more remarkable anecdotes ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland mourned as one on Saturday former national soccer manager Jack Charlton, whose achievements transcended the sport and made him a hero despite hailing from old rivals England ...

Of course, we knew Jack Charlton was human. We knew he was mortal, that he didn’t create the world. But to us, in Ireland, it just looked that way. Ireland in the 1980s was bleak. The most common ...

His memory was gone but the ghosts were still there, plastered on the walls of his office or hung on the wall of Charltons, his son’s pub in Cambois, Northumberland. A photograph in a frame. The ...

A towering defender, he won the World Cup with his home country in 1966 and went on to coach the Irish national team to memorable runs in 1990 and 1994. By Rory Smith Elian Peltier and Mark A. Walsh ...

Jack Charlton, who has died at the age of 85, was one of football’s great characters. Not the most naturally gifted of players, he nevertheless collected a World Cup winners' medal alongside his ...

Turns out, Staunton was so rattled by the experience that he sheepishly knocked on Jack Charlton’s hotel room door the night ...