Charlton's inevitable selection by Ramsey for the tournament made him the first – and still, to date, only – England player to feature in four World Cup squads.

His caps record lasted until 1973 when Bobby Moore overtook him, and Charlton currently lies fourth in the all-time England appearances list behind Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton, whose own England career began in the first game after Charlton's had ended.

Seed, an ex-miner who had made a career as a footballer despite suffering the effects of poison-gas in the first war, remains the most successful manager in Charlton's history and he is commemorated in the name of a stand at the Valley.

Charlton's first Premier League campaign began promisingly ( they went top after two games ) but they were unable to keep up their good form and were soon battling relegation.

Another Charlton legend, Chris Powell was appointed manager of the club in January, winning his first game in charge 2 – 0 over Plymouth at the Valley, Charlton's first win since November.

As an editor, he made his first mark in the industry, overseeing Charlton's revamping of its few existing superheroes and having his artists and writers create new such characters for what he called the company's " Action Hero " line.

In January, in a 1 – 1 Premier League draw against Charlton Athletic, Carvalho received the first red card of his Chelsea career, after he received his second yellow for what the referee judged to be a tackle from behind on Charlton's striker Darren Bent.

The West Stand was built in 1998 after Charlton's first promotion to the Premier League and is also two tiered.

He earned his first cap in Jack Charlton's first match as manager, a 1 – 0 defeat by Wales in a friendly international at Lansdowne Road on 26 March 1986.

He went to Italy with Jack Charlton's squad as the Republic of Ireland competed in their first ever FIFA World Cup finals.

In Charlton's first season back in the Premiership, Todd scored his first and what turned out to be only Charlton goal against Leicester City in April 2001.

Charlton's poor mid-season form saw him dropped in favour of Kiely at first, then Thomas Myhre, who established himself as first choice as Charlton turned their season around.

In the first half of the 2006 – 07 season, he saw the loaned-in Scott Carson become Charlton's starting goalkeeper.

Typically consistent performance belying his years throughout 2005 – 06 saw Powell regain his place as Charlton's first choice left back, rotated with loanee Jonathan Spector, due to Hermann Hreiðarsson's move to the centre of defence.

Fuller captained Charlton's successful reserves side, but did not feature in any games for the first team.

The following game saw Charlton's relegation to League One become a reality after a 2 – 2 draw against Blackpool.

An almost constant presence throughout most of Charlton's seven year spell in the Premier League, he had a reputation as a hard worker, a warrior and often topped the team on the distance he ran during games, as shown by the Pro Zone statistics system.

Bent was the highest scoring Englishman in the Premier League in the 2005 – 06 season, with 18 goals ( 22 overall ) which made him third highest scorer and was given Charlton's Player of the Season award.

Bent finished the 2006 – 07 season with 13 goals in the Premier League, again finishing as Charlton's top goalscorer, but was unable to prevent them from being relegated to the Championship after seven successive seasons of Premier League football.

At times, Charlton was not on speaking terms with United's other superstars George Best and Denis Law, and Best refused to play in Charlton's testimonial match against Celtic, saying that " to do so would be hypocritical ".

In what proved to be his last England match, against Sweden at Euro 1992, he was substituted by England coach Graham Taylor, in favour of Arsenal striker Alan Smith, ultimately denying Lineker the chance to equal — or even better — Charlton's record of 49 goals.

At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.

Charlton's role was developing from traditional inside-forward to what today would be termed an attacking midfield player, with Ramsey planning to build the team for the 1966 World Cup around him.

Charlton's next England game was his 75th as England beat Northern Ireland ; 2 caps later and he had become England's second most-capped player, behind the veteran Billy Wright, who was approaching his 100th appearance when Charlton was starting out and ended with 105 caps.

Historically, Charlton's most successful period was the 1930s, when the club's highest league finishes were recorded, including runners-up of the First Division in 1937.

1997 – 98 was Charlton's best season for years.

Les Reed replaced Dowie as manager, however he too failed to improve Charlton's position in the league table and on Christmas Eve 2006, Reed was replaced by former player Alan Pardew.

Charlton's return to the second tier of English football was a disappointment, with their promotion campaign tailing off to an 11th place finish.

Charlton's relegation from the Championship was all but confirmed on Easter Monday ( 13 April ) when, despite picking up a point in a 0 – 0 draw at Coventry, they found themselves 12 points from safety with four games remaining.

After the end of the First World War, a chalk quarry known as the Swamps was identified as Charlton's new ground, and in the summer of 1919 work began to create the level playing area and remove debris from the site.

In 1963, a competition was held to find a new badge for the club, and the winning entry was a hand holding a sword, which complied with Charlton's nickname of the time, the Valiants.

* 1665 – Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, which was ridiculed by Swift in A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, and by Butler in An Occasional Reflection on Dr Charlton's Feeling a Dog's Pulse at Gresham College

Nicola Cuti made creative improvements to Charlton's line in the early 1970s Bronze Age of comic books as assistant editor under George Wildman, who was occupied primarily with administrative duties.

Most of Charlton's superhero characters were acquired in 1983 by DC Comics, where Giordano was then managing editor.

According to Peter Charlton's biography, Sir Arthur Sullivan's tribute to Stainer was blunt and memorable: " He is a genius ".

Giordano's artwork from Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories was used as inspiration for artist Roy Lichtenstein's 1965 / 1966 Brushstroke series, including Brushstroke, Big Painting No. 6, Little Big Painting and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes.

He was the son of Alexander Milburn, the uncle of the four professional footballing Milburn brothers John (' Jack ') Milburn b. 1908 ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn b. 1910 ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), James (' Jimmy ') Milburn b. 1919 ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), and Stanley (' Stan ') Milburn b. 1926 ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), who were brothers of Jack and Bobby Charlton's mother Elizabeth ' Cissie ' Milburn b. 1912..

The series then took over the numbering of the defunct title Son of Vulcan, and ran from issue # 50-60 ( March-April 1966-Nov. 1967 ), after which Morisi, a New York City Police Department officer and time-pressed with police work, left the title, which was canceled along with the rest of Charlton's " Action Heroes " comics line.

A hat-trick in the 8 – 1 rout of Switzerland in June 1963 took Charlton's England goal tally to 30, equalling the record jointly held by Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse and Charlton's 31st goal against Wales in October the same year gave him the record alone.

In 1973, Charlton debuted the Gothic romance title Haunted Love, but this same period saw the mass cancellation of almost all of Charlton's vast stable of traditional romance titles, including such long-running series as Sweethearts, Romantic Secrets, Romantic Story, I Love You, Teen-Age Love, Just Married, and Teen Confessions, all of which dated from the 1950s.

Alan Moore had originally intended to use Charlton Comics characters in his mini-series ( until DC told him otherwise ), which would imply that Silk Spectre was based on Charlton's Nightshade.

Ipswich were entitled to 20 % of Charlton's profit on Bent under a sell-on clause, which gave the club an initial £ 2. 58 million.