Celebrating golden days of Jack’s Game
It was only a few months after I left school in the autumn of 1983 that a ground-breaking new TV show was aired on Channel 4. Broadcast on a Sunday afternoon, at around 4pm, the series featured the legendary England and Leeds United central defender Jack Charlton enjoying a variety of fieldsports and country pursuits.
Jack had been the archetypal hardman defender during his footballing career and perhaps to some he was a strange choice to front such a series. However, Jack was a popular, humorous and charismatic figure, and his straight-talking manner made him an ideal
