I've just read that he quit Wolfburg as goalkeeper coach because he wasn't prepared to work more than three days a week.
I got the impression that he was on a part-time contract because the club wasn't prepared to employ him full-time.
They should have sacked him for his predilection for using Beate Uhse blow-up dollies during training to simulate defenders and attackers. A complete waste of money: everybody knows the Beate Uhse versions are the most expensive. You can get a no-name model in the shops round the back of the Reeperbahn for half the price of the Beate Uhse job.
According to widespread rumours Jack Charlton quietly lent a couple of cars to Northumberland and Durham NUM members who wanted to get past the roadblocks around Notts to picket. More genuinely left wing than a lot of the posturing favoured by many footballing socialists.
Charlton spent a solid decade in Ireland paying by cheque for every product he consumed, safe in the knowledge that the starstruck publican/restaurateur/car dealer would never cash that cheque and would instead get it framed on the wall of their establishment. By the early 1990s it had become a standing national joke in this country, and he kept getting away with it until the very end, and in the same situation, who of us would have acted any differently . . .
But good on him for slipping the union men a few quid back then.
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