[permalink] [id link]
Charlton, strapped into his seat, had fallen out of the cabin and when United goalkeeper Harry Gregg ( who had somehow got through a hole in the plane unscathed and begun a one-man rescue mission ) found him, he thought he was dead.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Charlton and into
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.
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.
In 1984 financial matters came to a head and the club went into administration, to be reformed as Charlton Athletic ( 1984 ) Ltd.
An insight into life at the football club in this period is provided by Left Foot Forward: A Year in the Life of a Journeyman Footballer, a highly-praised account of the 1994 – 95 season written in diary form by Charlton forward Garry Nelson.
On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.
The progression of the nickname can be seen in the book The Addicks Cartoons: An Affectionate Look into the Early History of Charlton Athletic, which covers the pre-First World War history of Charlton through a narrative based on 56 cartoons which appeared in the now defunct Kentish Independent.
The post-exhibition plan had been to convert The Dome into a football stadium which would last for 25 years: Charlton Athletic at one point considered a possible move but instead chose to redevelop their own stadium.
On the eastern edge of the town is Charlton where there are former breweries and mills, now converted into a trading estate, and right on the edge of the town is to be found Charlton House, a luxury hotel and spa.
The novel was adapted into three movies: The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price in 1964, The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston in 1971, and I am Legend ( film ) starring Will Smith in 2007.
The poet Charlton Sennet, in the 1770s, projected Promethea's likeness onto his housemaid Anna, transforming her into his dream lover.
In 1968, he ventured successfully into American cowboy territory, playing a sadistic self-styled preacher who goes after stoic Charlton Heston in the Western Will Penny.
The Charlton characters were incorporated into DC's main superhero line, starting in the epic Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries of 1985.
In 2006, Leeds United supporters voted Charlton into the club's greatest ever XI.
Born into a footballing family, Charlton was initially overshadowed by his younger brother Bobby, who was taken on by Manchester United while Jack was doing his National Service with the Household Cavalry.
Charlton was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of his contribution to the English game.
An example of the latter kind of crossover would be DC's acquisition of Fawcett Comics, Quality Comics, and Charlton Comics and the absorption into the DC continuity of the original Captain Marvel, Plastic Man and Captain Atom.
The architecture of Charlton is diverse, offering an insight into how different parts of the area were built up, as it evolved from a Thames-side village into the London suburb that it is today.
The first nuns moved into Highcombe and set up a mission in Charlton.
* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ) by Lew Wallace ; famously made into a film starring Charlton Heston ; set in the reign of Tiberius in Judaea, the Mediterranean, and Rome.
Dunphy did not break into the first team at United and subsequently left to play for York City, Millwall, Charlton Athletic and Reading.
Once his living conditions were finally looked into he was removed from his mother's care and put in " The Lillian Charlton Home for Problem Children " in New Jersey until 1956, where he rapidly seemed to improve, excelling at scholastics as well as gymnastics and amateur boxing.
Charlton and seat
Charlton were rare among football clubs, in that they reserved a seat on their directors ' board for a supporter.
The family seat is Charlton Park, Wiltshire, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
The current member, Greg Combet, Secretary of the ACTU won the seat of Charlton in the 2007 federal election.
* 1961 – Charlton Lyons to run for Louisiana's 4th congressional district seat
In 1910 Charlton won the seat of Hunter and rose through the ranks of Andrew Fisher's government, then staying with the Australian Labor Party during its period in opposition.
He resigned from state politics and in 1910 Charlton wrested the federal Division of Hunter from the sitting Frank Liddell. Hunter has remained a safe Labor seat ever since.
The Division of Charlton in the Hunter Valley region is named in his honour and has been a safe Labor seat since its creation in 1984.
Charlton and had
Charlton and teammate Dennis Viollet swapped places with Tommy Taylor and David Pegg, who had decided they would be safer at the back of the plane.
In between, there was the pressing matter for Charlton of the 1966 World Cup for which England, as hosts, had not needed to qualify.
Luckily for Charlton, he had all three.
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'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.
Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.
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.
The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of the Premier League ).
After the club's return, Curbishley proved an astute spender and by 2003 he had succeeded in establishing Charlton in the top flight.
During the 1940s and 50s the attendance was often above 40, 000, and Charlton had one of the largest support bases in the country.
The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.
Banks thought Jack Charlton was going to clear ; Charlton in turn thought Banks had it covered.
Banks had little to do during the second half but his known powers of concentration were required when Jack Charlton gave away a dubious free kick 30 yards from goal.
The Germans had hope now, especially when Beckenbauer became more liberated in the game with Ramsey's decision to substitute Bobby Charlton.
1.603 seconds.