ANDY Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Sheffield Wednesday FC 5 hrs · Former manager Jack Charlton is on the cover of our matchday programme against Hull tomorrow. What are your best memories from Big Jack’s time in charge? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cross owl Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Went to a football summer thingy run by us in 1979 . My parents bought me a wednesday kit for my tenth birthday and big back presented it to me on the last day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adelphi1867 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 (edited) Boxing day 1979. No matter what the Blunts say, that game has gone down in Local History. For my money, the best manager at the club in my 50 years of watching the Owls Edited December 1, 2017 by adelphi1867 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthowl Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Oldham "riot", trying to get the fans to behave. The trouble had all calmed down by then. Call to boycott the game at Derby due to rip off prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinAOWL Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Best manager Wednesday have had since I was taken to watch them in 1969 by my old man. Meg son a close 2nd if he had been able to continue and finish the job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinAOWL Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Also remember arsenul game where he tried to stop us pelting Jennings with snowballs :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlyegg Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 He was in the North Stand, just before he said he would join us (came to av a look at us before making his mind up) I said to him, wot you think Jack..they need smartning up' he said 'aye possibly'....radio sheff reporter was reyt mad I got to him before them, he asked me what he said (cos he ignored the reporters questions), I just said he's our next manager...though I was semi-guessing at the time....then RS announced they were the first to know...a scoop, effin cheeky twots. Can't remember who we were playing, but we did win and played ok if i remember correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S36 OWL Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 I remember meeting Jack one night in The Shoulder Of Mutton in Worrall . He was in having a pint with Tony toms, who lived up there . Down to earth bloke who was happy to have a drink with us and a chat . Said it how it was ,straight to the point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 I remember when he told an Englishman that he should have kept quiet about not actually being Irish. Chortle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helmut_rooster Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Smegheadowl said: Too young to remember him in charge, but my best memory of him is when he said " if he'd have done that to me I'd have chinned him" about that dutch player in the 1990 world cup, think it was Rickard. If you mean "the spitter" it was him yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzOwl Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 16 minutes ago, sherlyegg said: He was in the North Stand, just before he said he would join us (came to av a look at us before making his mind up) I said to him, wot you think Jack..they need smartning up' he said 'aye possibly'....radio sheff reporter was reyt mad I got to him before them, he asked me what he said (cos he ignored the reporters questions), I just said he's our next manager...though I was semi-guessing at the time....then RS announced they were the first to know...a scoop, effin cheeky twots. Can't remember who we were playing, but we did win and played ok if i remember correctly. It was Chesterfield we were bottom of the third division, we won 1-0 on a day when sherlyegg got the scoop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennz Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 1 hour ago, adelphi1867 said: For my money, the best manager at the club in my 50 years of watching the Owls Certainly up there with the best, a real character of the type football misses today....he saved us from the fourth division & set us on our way back, I also loved how he did it without a contract, he just came in, sorted us & then moved on when he thought he couln't take us any further.....great man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prendo's boots Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 41 minutes ago, S36 OWL said: I remember meeting Jack one night in The Shoulder Of Mutton in Worrall . He was in having a pint with Tony toms, who lived up there . Down to earth bloke who was happy to have a drink with us and a chat . Said it how it was ,straight to the point. Saw him and Tony Toms a few times in The Shoulder chap...and Mick Pickering too!! Fond memories of those times as he built a team we could be proud of after so much c**p!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No 2 is r nilsson Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 BTM was obviously the best memory, but the away game at Blackburn stays in my mind. We weren’t mathematically up at that point but it more or less secured promotion. The support that night was spectacular and the celebration at the end when the away end emptied onto the pitch still stays with me after all these years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 I seem to remember his medicals for potential signings revolved around them being a "gun dog" for him up on the moors. Another story I recall is Jack getting more and more pissed off by the minute after watching his players unable to hit the target during a free kick practice session in front of the Lepp...Big Jack strides on to the mud bath of a Hillsborough pitch in his brogues and promptly smashes one first time into the top corner , shakes his head then remarks "why the roger can't you lot do that"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 the arsenal games when for the 1st time in years we could see light at the end of a very long tunnel........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Darling Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Wagging school on a freezing cold day to watch training Was approached by the big man, he asked me for a cigarette as he 'needed one to keep his hands warm'. I duly gave him my last Players No6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owler66 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Sat in the wimpy on fargate with a few mates one had a united shirt on,in walks Jack walks straight up to my mate and says you've got the wrong colours on there son. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonshire owl Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 I wrote to him,congratulating him on getting manager of the month back in79.he replyed,still got the letter now.brilliant bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hodgybysea Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Bumped into him on a number of occasions,each time I just looked at him and thought,christ this man is a world cup winner,surreal,he is just a proper bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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