Only two Englishmen have been victorious in World Cup and European Cup finals: Nobby Stiles, who died three years ago this week, and Bobby Charlton, the greatest of them all.
Charlton lived many lives in football: the Busby Babe who lit up Europe with his best friends and then had to grapple with their tragic deaths in Munich; the World Cup winner who lifted the trophy with his big brother; a third of the Holy Trinity in the Manchester United team that became the first English side to win the European Cup; and, finally, a director at the club and confidant to Alex Ferguson as United won it all again.
