Among the former footballers to have been knighted are 1966 World Cup winners Geoff Hurst and Bobby Charlton, former ...

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Bobby Charlton, one of soccer’s greatest and most influential players who shepherded England to its lone World Cup victory and Manchester United to its first European Cup title, died Saturday.

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Emotions ran high in England over the weekend after it was announced that Bobby Charlton, widely regarded as the country’s greatest soccer player, had died on Saturday at the age of 86.

They came to stand at the Holy Trinity statue of Denis Law, George Best and Sir Bobby Charlton with tears in their eyes, sadness in their souls and tight fistfuls of memories. Advertisement All ...

Bobby Charlton, the Manchester United great who played a starring role in England’s 1966 World Cup victory, has died at the age of 86, the Premier League club said on Saturday. “The club’s ...

By Mark A. Walsh Bobby Charlton, one of soccer’s greatest players, who won the World Cup with England in 1966 in a dazzling career that was tinged by the tragedy of losing eight of his ...

Charlton died peacefully in the early hours of Saturday surrounded by his family, according to a statement from his family, per the English Football Association. “Sir Bobby was a hero to ...