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Charlton and teammate
Though Charlton was a candidate to go in goal to replace Wood ( in the days before substitutes, and certainly before goalkeeping substitutes ), it was teammate Jackie Blanchflower who ended up between the posts.
Having been appointed as caretaker manager when Charlton resigned in protest at the transfer of defender John Bird to Newcastle United, Stiles resigned a week later in support of his former Manchester United teammate.

Charlton and Dennis
The United team featured Dennis Law, Bobby Charlton and George Best in his prime.
The film features an ensemble cast, consisting of Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, John C. McGinley, Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Lauren Holly, Bill Bellamy, Lela Rochon, Aaron Eckhart, Elizabeth Berkley, Marty Wright, and legendary NFL players Jim Brown and Lawrence Taylor.
He beat Eddie Charlton, Dennis Taylor and Ray Reardon in the semi-final ( in which he made 145 break, a championship record at the time ).
His father, Dennis, played for Reading, Charlton Athletic and Bournemouth.
Team: Ted Ditchburn ( Tot ), Stan Charlton ( Ars ), Dennis Evans ( Ars ), Brian Nicholas ( Che ), Jim Fotheringham ( Ars ), Phil McKnight ( Ley ), Peter Berry ( Cry ), Geoff Truett ( Cry ), Les Stubbs ( Che ), Phil Woosnam ( Ley ), Joe Haverty ( Ars ).
He is sometimes called ' The Hero of Munich ' because he pulled some of his team mates from the burning plane during the Munich air disaster-including Bobby Charlton, Jackie Blanchflower and Dennis Viollet.

Charlton and Viollet
That said, he grabbed both Charlton and Viollet by their trouser waistbands and dragged them away from the plane in constant fear that it would explode.
Gregg returned to the plane to try to help the appallingly injured Busby and Blanchflower, and when he turned around again, he was relieved to see that Charlton and Viollet, both of whom he had presumed to be dead, had got out of their detached seats and were looking into the wreckage.
He visited Duncan Edwards, Johnny Berry, Jackie Blanchflower, Viollet, Scanlon, Charlton and Ray Wood.
Foulkes himself survived, along with Busby, Charlton, Gregg, Morgans, Scanlon, Viollet and Wood.

Charlton and places
Category: Populated places in Charlton County, Georgia
Other streets in Charlton named after prominent figures or places include Montcalm, Prince Henry, Canberra, and Kashmir.
West Ham United, Charlton Athletic and Southampton occupy the bottom three places.
However, he suffered another muscle injury, and with further competition for places in the form of Dean Chandler and Richard Rufus, he failed to make a single appearance for Charlton in the 1993 – 94 season and was released at the end of it.
For Manchester United, he played 688 games which places him at number 4 on the all-time list of appearances behind Paul Scholes, Bobby Charlton and Ryan Giggs.
Powell won his opening four games at Charlton, but then went 11 games without a win, falling out of the play-off places and leaving the Addicks in mid-table by the end of the season.

Charlton and with
Charlton went on to play for England schoolboys, and despite offers that followed from several other clubs, the 15-year-old signed with United on 1 January 1953, along with Wilf McGuinness, also aged 15.
Charlton, still only 19, was selected for the game, which saw United goalkeeper Ray Wood carried off with a broken cheekbone after a clash with Villa centre forward Peter McParland.
Charlton was handed his debut as England romped home 4 – 0, with the new player gaining even more admirers after scoring a magnificent thumping volley dispatched with authority after a cross by the left winger Tom Finney.
Charlton began to settle back into his footballing life with Manchester United and England and enhanced his reputation as a scorer of great goals as well as a great goalscorer – rarely is a player regarded as both.
Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.
England drew the opening game of the tournament 0 – 0 with Uruguay, and Charlton scored the first goal in the 2 – 0 win over Mexico.
Charlton opened the scoring with a crisp side-footed finish after a run by Roger Hunt had forced the Portuguese goalkeeper out of his net ; his second was a sweetly struck shot after a run and pull-back from Geoff Hurst.
Charlton and Hunt were now England's joint-highest scorers in the tournament with three each, and a final against West Germany beckoned.
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.
Beckenbauer pulled a goal back for the Germans and Ramsey replaced the ageing and tired Charlton with Colin Bell who further tested the German keeper Maier and also provided a great cross for Geoff Hurst who uncharacteristically squandered the chance.
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 ".
Charlton share local London derbies with Millwall, Crystal Palace ; and with east London club West Ham United.
In 1923 it was proposed that Charlton merged with Catford Southend to create a larger team with bigger support.
Charlton finally secured promotion to the First Division by beating local rivals West Ham in front of 41, 254 fans at the Valley, with their valiant centre-half John Oakes playing on despite concussion and a broken nose.
The club began to groundshare with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park and this arrangement looked to be for the long-term, as Charlton did not have enough funds to revamp the Valley to meet safety requirements.
Despite the move away from the Valley, Charlton were promoted to the First Division as Second Division runners-up at the end of 1985 – 86, and remained at this level for four years ( achieving a highest league finish of 14th ) often with late escapes, most notably against Leeds in 1987, where the Addicks triumphed in extra-time of the play-off final replay to secure their top flight place.
Charlton won 7 – 6 on penalties, with the match described as " arguably the most dramatic game of football in Wembley ’ s history ", and were promoted to the Premier League.
In the 2003 – 04 season, Charlton spent much of the campaign challenging for a Champions League place, but a late-season slump in form, combined with the sale of star player Scott Parker to Chelsea, left Charlton in 7th place, which was still the club's highest finish since the 1950s.

Charlton and Tommy
These huge kits became well known, notably the amber set in the films, Tommy and Stardust, and in footage shot by the BBC at Charlton in 1974.
She worked with such leading men as Dustin Hoffman, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Duvall.
Hollywood actors and other celebrities were also attended, including Mr. Reagan's first wife, actress Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, Dolores Hope ( widow of Bob Hope ), Merv Griffin, Tommy Lasorda, Wayne Gretzky, Scott Baio, Bo Derek, Tom Selleck, Pat Sajak, Wayne Newton, and the Sinatra family.
Attendances at some games were well over 1, 000, during the 1940s and 1950s, the Yorkshire League contained the ' A ' teams of Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Doncaster and so on, many top players learned their trade in these teams, such as John Charles, Denis Law, Ray Wilson, Peter Swan, Tommy Taylor, Jackie Charlton and many others.
The Championship was defended successfully in 1957, with Tommy Taylor scoring 22 goals, Liam Whelan getting 26 and a young Bobby Charlton grabbing 10 goals.

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