Bobby Charlton, who has died aged 86, was the quintessential English footballer, among the very best the country has produced and certainly one of the best-loved. He was synonymous with Manchester United during a 20-year association with the club.
As such, his was perhaps the greatest of careers, encompassing as it did the Busby Babes era of the 1950s, the Munich air disaster and its aftermath, and the subsequent rebuilding that
