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Jonathan Wilson: Two Brothers: The life and times of Bobby and Jackie Charlton

Jonathan Wilson: Two Brothers: The life and times of Bobby and Jackie Charlton

Jack was open, charismatic, selfish and pig-headed; Bobby was guarded, shy, polite and reserved to the point of reclusiveness.

 Jack was a gangling central defender who developed a profound tactical intelligence; Bobby was an athletic attacking midfielder who disdained systems. Yet the Charlton brothers both enjoyed great success as football players, and together, they won the World Cup for England.

Two Brothers is both the story of the most famous football players of their generation and an account of late 20th-century English football: the tensions between flair and industry, between individuality and the collective, between right and left, between middle- and working classes, between exile and home.

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