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The Guardian - UK
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‘He scored 12 goals against my dad’s team’: readers recall Bobby Charlton

Bobby Charlton scoring for Manchester United against Liverpool in 1964.
Bobby Charlton scoring for Manchester United against Liverpool in 1964. Photograph: Colorsport/REX/Shutterstock

‘He was a natural snooker player’

As a 16-year-old trainee press photographer for the Stockport Advertiser, I was sent to Marple Golf Club to photograph a charity golf day cheque presentation. It was May 1976 and Manchester United had just lost to Southampton in the FA Cup final. When I arrived, I was told there was a delay. Two minutes later Bobby Charlton arrived to receive the cheque on behalf of a cancer charity.

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