In picking my all time team Charlton's is the second name I put down. That is how great I thought he was as a footballer.
However as a man I have always thought him a complete and utter shit. I remember him from the late 50's when he wasn't a household name and didn't do things for their publicity value. At that time he treated a polite boy (me) with the most disgraceful contempt. I can truly say that I disliked him as a man more than any other I have encountered during my fifty plus years as a supporter of Manchester United. That he has said what he has about the Glazers; that he has tried so hard to give those total bastards some credibility, surprises me not one jot. It is wholly consistent with how I would have expected him to behave. He is NOT, in my mind, a man of integrity. Keep the faith, Peter P.S. Some years ago I was talking to a mate at a Reserve match in Morecambe. I was talking about Charlton and not being kind. A man, a stranger, intervened and chastised me and called me a cynic. That man was David Jones father. A couple of years ago Tony O'Neill published a book (Red Army General - worth a read if you want to put a piece in your Manchester United history jigsaw) and in it he described Charlton in EXACTLY the same terms I had used. At the next opportunity I took the book to a Reserve match (Gigg Lane as it happens) and at half-time showed the extract to Mr Jones and reminded him of his comments. In fairness to the man he apologised for what he had said to me. You see, the image that Charlton gives out bears NO relation to the real man. His is a facade. He is an hypocrite and, I have to tell you, that that is one thing I despise above all else. 'To thine own self be true'. I have tried all my life to be that. I am what you see, like that or not. Charlton would, I suspect, not know the meaning of that phrase. Please use [email protected] for general discussion. To unsubscribe send a blank message (from the email account in question) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join as a full member of IMUSA today: http://www.imusa.org/join.htm Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imusa/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
