Great dynasties of the world: The Charltons

Ian Sansom

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Among the greatest football dynasties are Cruyff (Johan, his son George, and now his grandson, son Jessua). And there is the Allen family: Les, who played for Chelsea, Tottenham and QPR, his brother Dennis who played for Charlton, and reading, and Bournemouth, and children of The Clive Bradley, who followed in the bootsteps his father in the QPR, with Martin, the son of Dennis, not to mention Paul Allen, Les Dennis and his nephew, who also played for West Ham but, unfortunately

Five brothers played professional football Shankly, anything that started with the legendary Glenbuck Cherrypickers, an amateur team in the remote mining town Glenbuck, south of Ayrshire, which in some so as not to produce less than 50 professional footballers. (Bill Shankly needs no introduction, and then went to his brother, Bob, who played for Falkirk Dundee, and John and Jimmy, who played for Portsmouth. And Alec, who played for Ayr United)

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and Rio Ferdinand are cousins. Rio's brother Anton plays for QPR. The former England and Arsenal Ian Wright is the father of Bradley Wright-Phillips, Charlton, and his father-QPR and England Shaun Wright-Phillips. There are the Neville brothers, Gary and Phil. Toure brothers, Kolo and Yaya. The legendary West Ham, Lampard, father and son. The Laudrup. The Boateng. Even Pele's father was a football player, so was his son. Basically, there is no shortage of football dynasties. But it has never been a football family quite similar to Charlton, including the extended family, Charlton, Milburn won 154 caps and God knows how many trophies

In his autobiography, My Life in Football (2009), Bobby Charlton said he never wanted to be anything other than a professional footballer. Many guys feel the same, but their dreams. Bobby said he was "extremely successful for two reasons. First of all, I was born into a family immersed in the game ... Then he was gifted with natural ability to make my vision a reality. "Nature, in other words, and the acquis.

• mother of Bobby, Cissie, had four brothers - George, Jimmy and John Stanley. If all players. George played for Leeds and Chesterfield, Jimmy and John Leeds and Bradford, and Stanley Chesterfield and Rochdale. And there was his cousin even more attractive and successful, Jackie Milburn - - "Wor Jackie", "WOR the first world" - England and Newcastle Utd striker who won three FA Cups in the 1950s

But Bobby Charlton was recognized that the great Jackie, uncles or football, who taught him to play. "If I had someone to thank," he writes, "Tanner Milburn would be my grandfather, my uncle Tommy and Mr McGuinness to school." He also had a debt of gratitude to his mother - is famous photographs of the two kick a ball in the yard of the house of his children in the street terraces Beatrice, Ashington. Cissie was not a coach. But he was a motivator.

She had already raised a successful footballer, Bobby's older brother, Jack, who was at Leeds, when Bobby was in school. The brothers played together in the final World Cup 1966, but there was a decline in recent years - the usual rivalry and Cissie did not get along with Bobby's wife, and the words went away. The subtitle of the biography Leo McKinstry brilliant joint Charlton brothers, Jack and Bobby (2002), is "a story of brothers in conflict." It was not until Jack was awarded a prize to Bobby in the personality of the ceremony of the BBC Sport Year in 2009 there was a appparent reconciliation.

the end of the final World Cup, said the famous words of Bobby Jack, "What's wrong with that, Kidda?"
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