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Title: Soccer Football Conference
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Created:Thu Aug 08 1991
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535.0. "Jack Charlton steps down" by IRNBRU::HOWARD (Lovely Day for a Guinness) Fri Dec 22 1995 10:09

    Big Jack has decided to call it a day after 10 great years with the
    Republic of Ireland. He deserves all the plaudits that he gets for
    his work in turning a team of good pros into an international-class
    team. Well done to the Big Man!...
    
    It would be nice to get a new manager with proven international ability
    but they're very hard to find aand very expensive. George Graham would
    fit that bill but his ban from football rules him out. The favourite is
    Mick McCarthy which, from a footballing point of view, doesn't sound
    like much of a change from the Charlton style of football. I would give
    Liam Brady a go at the job....
    
    Ray....
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535.1Much less aggressive today. Well so far anywayCHEFS::STRATFORDSGroovy, Laidback and NastyFri Dec 22 1995 10:175
    Speculation in The Times includes Alex Ferguson as a front-runner for
    the job. Who knows maybe we will see some of Andy Coles
    spectacular running off the ball in the green of Ireland yet.
    
    Stuart 
535.2Should I stay or should I goCHEFS::JAMESPFri Dec 22 1995 10:225
    
    You should be able to poach that bloke at Wolves.. urm what his name
    loyal bloke.. see's a job through to the end 8-)
   
    Pj
535.3Don't believe everything your see on the TV!XSTACY::JLUNDONhttp://xagony.ilo.dec.com/~jlundon :-)Wed Jan 03 1996 17:2243
Something I picked up on Usenet!

                          James.

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On the eve of the match, CNN International featured 
a report on Jack Charlton, describing his career as 
Ireland's manager. At the end of the report,
Sean Connelly (FAI president) said that perhaps
Charlton's greatest achievement is that soccer is 
now being played in remote areas of the country where the
game had never been played before. Cut to a small
football pitch surrounded by stoney hills (CNN's
idea of somewhere remote) where two teams of
youngsters were playing football. Gaelic football....

/John




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535.4So long Jack!XSTACY::JLUNDONhttp://xagony.ilo.dec.com/~jlundon :-)Wed Jan 03 1996 17:24163
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Subject: So long, Jack Charlton
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From: Eugene Mcelroy <[email protected]>

             So Long, Jack, its been good to know ya
                          by John Kelly
                       from The Irish Echo
                       Dec. 27-Jan 2, 1995


     Nobody stood up to doff their caps. But crowds in many
Dublin hostelries stood gallantly amazed, lumps in their throats,
as thousands of their compatriots brought a Liverpool stadium to
a dead stop as they sang "You'll Never Walk Alone."

     In losing their European playoff against the Dutch, Jack
Charlton and the Republic of Ireland certainly did not go quietly
into the good night.

     Were there any who dared begrudge them that  last hurrah?

     When those thousands stood for 20 minutes, refusing to budge
until Jack Charlton came out to acknowledge their respect, they
couldn't have chosen a better place to say goodbye. Anfield,
after all, is the main soccer stadium in a city that has often
been called the "Real Capital of Ireland."

     Like the city itself, Charlton bridged a gap between two
peoples and two islands. He proved that the gap is not so wide
that it can't be breached and the differences not so great as to
be beyond resolution.

     One of his greatest achievements was absolutely accidental.
For the last 10 years, he steadily nurtured a new friendliness
between the two islands. Simply by being English and yet also
gaining the love of the Irish, he confounded "Little Englanders",
while puzzling some of the more intransigently nationalist "Fior
Gaelgeoiri" as well.

     There, at Anfield, were the Irish in their thousands, the
Irish who had trekked, heads high, in a caravan to the cities of
Europe and the U.S. The greatest ambassadors Ireland ever had,
the people themselves, created a whole new image. It was no
wonder that they were applauded so roundly by the Dutch, the
players who had defeated them in the cauldron of Anfield. They
had shown yet again, win, lose or draw, that they know how to
celebrate. They had gone down fighting. There was no shame  in
defeat.

     It's a lesson that English followers, or at least, the "yob"
factor among them, have not yet learned. For that matter, it's a
quirk in the Irish psyche that still puzzles Jack, this tendency
to celebrate no matter what.

     He could not believe the reception accorded to him after the
1990 World Cup excursion to Italy. As the open-air bus crawled
through thronged Dublin streets, he was heard to mutter: "But we
won nothing. We won nothing."

     It was true only in the footballing sense. The Irish had won
the hearts of Italy--and the rest of Europe.

     Jack Charlton and the Irish got along famously. It was an
odd alliance. He was often abrasive, occasionally cruel in his
treatment of some of  the most prominent footballers in his
squad. Famously, he was quoted as saying in an off-the-cuff
remark that the Irish don't give up their heroes easily.
Ironically, as it will surely turn out, he could have been
referring to himself. They haven't given him up easily either.

     One may well wonder why, especially since he has been the
subject of continuing attacks, often amounting to a diatribe by
at least one well-known commentator. What's more, even those with
only the slightest interest in football realize that a lot of the
criticism had a point.

     Jack was defensive in style. His concept of putting the
opposition under pressure was often unattractive. Still, it was
not just football that cemented the bond between Jack and his
fans. It was something far deeper than that.

     It was his common touch. It was the fact that he could sit,
pint in hand, in a decidedly unfashionable city centre public
house and talk as though he was just one of  the lads, treating
every comment on football and the Irish squad with great
seriousness. He is a respected pro footballer who claimed to know
nothing much about anything other than football. Yet he never
attempted to pretend that football was the most important subject
in the world.

     In short, Jack is the sort of Englishman the Irish
appreciate most. A bluff, no-nonsense talker, he is one who never
attempts to hide his feet of clay. He was never condescending in
the least and always made it clear that he considered the fans to
be the best in the world. And they reciprocated.

     None who saw him wipe away a glistening droplet from his eye
in Anfield will doubt his real commitment to the fans, the real
stars of the Irish football revival. Yes, indeed, Ireland yields
its heroes grudgingly.

     But the Anfield adulation was just that--a grateful show of
affection at a time of farewell. As nicely as possible, as
rapturously as possible, as gently as they could, the Irish fans
gave Jack the final message. It wa over. An ecstatic decade had
come to an inevitable end.

     They waked Jack Charlton at Anfield. It was a great wake at
that, the end of a glorious 10 years for Irish soccer and the
Irish people in general. But it was a wake nonetheless.

     The country will be all the poorer for the passing. Just hoe
important Irish soccer was for the economy in general can be
revealed by the fact that RTE has committed itself to coverage of
the European Championships for no less than L800,000. That money
had to go up front. An extra L1000,000 would have been paid if
Ireland had qualified.

     Tourism will suffer as well, Most of all, the great Irish
public will not again be glued to their TV screens this summer.
There will be no huge craic, no great expectations. It will be a
slightly duller country as a result.

     That's how important Jack became. That's how great the Irish
team was. Let's hope that the end of this one is only the
beginning of something that may turn out even better.

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535.5Jack's record for IrelandXSTACY::JLUNDONhttp://xagony.ilo.dec.com/~jlundon :-)Wed Jan 03 1996 17:25183
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From: Eugene Mcelroy <[email protected]>

                        The Charlton File
     Here is the record of Jack Charlton as Ireland manager

date         opposition      venue       score   scorers
(mo/da/yr)

1. 3/27/86   Wales           Landsdowne   0-1
2. 4/24/86   Uruguay         Landsdowne   1-1    Daly (pen)
3. 5/25/86   Czechoslovakia  Reyjavik     2-1    McGrath, Daly
4. 5/27/86   Iceland         Reyjavik     1-0    Stapleton
5. 9/19/86   Belgium         Brussels     2-2    Stapleton, 
                                                 Brady (pen) 
6. 10/15/86  Scotland        Landsdowne   0-0  
7. 11/12/86  Poland          Warsaw       0-1
8. 2/18/87   Scotland        Hampden Pk.  1-0    Lawrenson
9. 4/1/87    Bulgaria        Sofia        1-2    Stapleton
10. 4/29/87  Belgium         Landsdowne   1-0    Brady
11. 5/23/87  Brazil          Landsdowne   1-0    Brady
12. 5/28/87  Luxembourg      Luxembourg   2-0    Galvin, Whelan
13. 9/9/87   Luxembourg      Landsdowne   2-0    Stapleton,      
                                                 McGrath
14. 10/14/87 Bulgaria        Landsdowne   2-0    McGrath, Moran
15. 11/19/87 Israel          Dalymount    5-0    D. Kelly, 3 
                                                 Byrne, Quinn
16. 3/23/88  Romania         Landsdowne   2-0    Moran, D. Kelly
17. 4/27/88  Yugoslavia      Landsdowne   2-0    McCarthy, Moran
18. 5/22/88  Poland          Landsdowne   4-1    Sheedy, Sheridan 
                                                 Cascarino
19. 6/1/88   Norway          Oslo         0-0

                               ***
                      European Nations Cup

20. 6/12/88  England         Stuggart     1-0    Houghton
21. 6/15/88  USSR            Hanover      1-1    Whelan
22. 6/18/88  Holland         Gelsenkirchen 0-1     

                              ****

23. 9/14/88  N.Ireland       Windsor Pk.  0-0
24. 10/19/88 Tunisia         Landsdowne   4-0   Cascarino 2,     
                                           Aldridge, Sheedy
25. 11/16/88 Spain           Seville      0-2
26. 2/7/89   France          Dalmount     0-0
27. 3/8/89   Hungary         Budapest     0-0
28. 4/26/89  Spain           Landsdowne   1-0   Michel (o.g)
29. 5/28/89  Malta           Landsdowne   2-0   Houghton, Moran
30. 6/4/89   Hungary         Landsdowne   2-0   McGrath,         
                                       Cascarino
31. 9/6/89   Germany         Landsdowne   1-1   Stapleton
32. 10/11/89 N.Ireland       Landsdowne   3-0   Whelan, Houghton
                                                Cascarino
33.11/15/89  Malta           Valletta     2-0   Aldridge 2
                                                1 pen.
34. 3/28/90  Wales           Landsdowne   1-0   Slaven
35. 4/25/90  USSR            Landsdowne   1-0   Stauton
36. 5/16/90  Finland         Landsdowne   1-1   Sheedy
37. 5/27/90  Turkey          Izmir        0-0
38. 6/3/90   Malta           Valletta     3-0   Quinn, Townsend,
                                                Stapleton
                          ************

                      1990 World Cup, Italy

39. 6/11/90  England         Calgiari     1-1   Sheedy
40. 6/17/90  Egypt           Palermo      0-0
41. 6/21/90  Holland         Palermo      1-1   Quinn
42. 6/25/90  Romania         Genoa        0-0   5-4 on penalties
43. 6/30/90  Italy           Rome         0-1

                          ************

44. 9/12/90  Morocco         Dalymount    1-0   D. Kelly
45. 10/17/90 Turkey          Landsdowne   5-0   Aldridge 3, 1 pen
                                                Quinn, O'Leary
46. 11/14/90 England         Landsdowne   1-1   Cascarino
47. 2/6/91   Wales           Wrexham      3-0   Quinn 2, Byrne
48. 3/27/91  England         Wembly       1-1   Quinn
49. 5/1/91   Poland          Landsdowne   0-0
50. 5/22/91  Chile           Landsdowne   1-1   D. Kelly
51. 6/2/91   USA             Foxboro      1-1   Cascarino
52. 9/11/91  Hungary         Gyor         2-1   D. Kelly, Sheedy
53. 10/16/91 Poland          Pozan        3-3   McGrath,
                                                Townsend,        
                                                Cascarino
    
54. 11/13/91 Turkey          Istanbul     3-1   Byrne, Cascarino
55. 2/19/92  Wales           RDS          0-1
56. 3/25/92  Switzerland     Landsdowne   2-1   Coyne,
                                                Aldridge pen
57. 4/29/92  USA             Landsdowne   4-1   Townsend, Irwin
                                                Quinn, Cascarino
58. 5/26/92  Albania         Landsdowne   2-0   Aldridge, McGrath
59. 5/30/92  USA             Washington   1-3   McCarthy
60. 6/4/92   Italy           Foxboro      0-2
61. 6/7/92   Portugal        Foxboro      2-0   Staunton, Coyne
62. 9/9/92   Latvia          Landsdowne   4-0   Aldridge 3-1 pen
                                                Sheedy
63. 10/14/92 Denmark         Copenhagen   0-0
64. 11/19/92 Spain           Seville      0-0
65. 3/31/93  Wales           Tolka Park   2-1   Sheedy, Coyne
66. 3/31/93  N. Ireland      Landsdowne   3-0   Townsend, Quinn
                                                Staunton
67. 4/28/93  Denmark         Landsdowne   1-1   Quinn
68. 5/26/93  Albania         Tirana       2-1   Staunton,        
                                        Cascarino
69. 6/9/93   Latvia          Riga         2-0   Aldridge
                                                Staunton
70. 6/16/93  Lithuania       Vilnus       1-0   Staunton
71. 9/8/93   Lithuania       Landsdowne   2-0   Aldridge
                                                Kernaghan
72. 10/13/93 Spain           Landsdowne    1-3  Sheridan
73. 11/17/93 N.Ireland       Belfast       1-1  McLoughlin
74. 3/23/94  Russia          Landsdowne    0-0
75. 4/20/94  Holland         Tilburg       1-0  Coyne
76. 5/24/94  Bolivia         Landsdowne    1-0  Sheridan
77. 5/29/94  Germany         Hanover       2-0  Cascarino
                                                G. Kelly
78. 6/18/94  Czech Rep.      Landsdowne    1-3  Townsend

                             *******
                       1994 World Cup, USA

79. 6/18/94  Italy           New Jersey    1-0  Houghton
80. 6/24/94  Mexico          Florida       2-1  Aldridge
81. 6/28/94  Norway          New Jersey    0-0
82. 7/4/94   Holland         Florida       2-0

                             *******

83. 9/7/94   Latvia          Riga          3-0  Aldridge 2, 1pen
                                                Sheridan
84. 10/12/94 Liechenstein    Landsdowne    4-0  Coyne2, Quinn 2
85. 11/16 94 N. Ireland      Belfast       4-0  Aldridge, Keane
                                                Sheridan,        
                                        Townsend
86. 3/29/95 N. Ireland       Landsdowne    1-1  Quinn
87. 4/26/95 Portual          Landsdowne    1-0  Staunton
88. 6/3/95  Liechenstein     Eschen        0-0
89. 6/11/95 Austria          Landsdowne    1-3  Houghton
90. 9/6/95  Austria          Vienna        1-3  McGrath
91. 10/11/95 Latvia          Landsdowne    2-0  Aldridge 2 (1pen)
92. 11/15/95 Portugal        Lisbon        0-3
93. 12/13/95 Holland         Liverpool     0-2

Home
played 44, win 27, draw 12, lose 5, goals for 74, goals against
24

Away
played 49, win 19, draw 18, lose 12, goals for 53, goals against
39

total
played 93*, won 46, drawn 30, lost 15, for 127, against 63

*not counting abandoned game against England at Lansdowne in
February, 1995. Game abandoned after 27 mins with Ireland leading
on a 22nd minute goal by David Kelly.  
                                                 

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535.6IRNBRU::HOWARDLovely Day for a GuinnessFri Feb 02 1996 14:277
    Joe Kinnear has ruled himself out of the Irish job. This leaves Mick
    McCarthy and Ronnie Whelan. I'm not sure if some of the foreign names
    mentioned are still in the running. McCarthy will probably get the job
    but he has no experience of big-time management. I think they should
    wait till June and appoint George Graham....
    
    Ray....
535.7UNTADE::TOPMon Feb 05 1996 13:269
    
    I think Mick McCarthy would do a good job, he's a good lad is Mick.
    I remember seeing him several times playing for Barnsley, where he
    became a local hero, this obviously doesn't mean he's a good manager,
    but he's got character, and he was very well liked by everybody
    at the club.
    
    
    Al.
535.8Insert relevant expletive.CHEFS::CROSSAMon Feb 05 1996 15:275
    I used to think Mick was an o.k chap until his comments made after a
    Millwall "fan" threw an 8" spanner at our goalkeeper earlier this
    season. Since then he can ......!!!!
    
    			Stretch. 
535.9XSTACY::JLUNDONhttp://xagony.ilo.dec.com/~jlundon :-)Mon Feb 05 1996 15:487
McCarthy has little or no managenemt experience, no matter what the
FAI think or say.  I think they are taking a very big chance on a
relative newcomer to the management game.  Pity about Kinnear dropping
out.  I wish Mick well; he will need all the luck he can muster to
cobble together a team that can qualify for the '98 World Cup! 

                          James.
535.10Long Live Big MickIRNBRU::HOWARDLovely Day for a GuinnessTue Feb 06 1996 09:5630
    Congrats to Mick McCarthy on getting the Ireland job. He has promised a
    new style of play, we'll just have to wait and see. His first match
    comes next month against Russia. I hope that the press have some patience
    with him and give him a chance to settle into the job. It seems that
    there were only three people in the race, McCarthy, Kinnear, (who was
    offered the job and turned it down, God only knows why), and Dalglish,
    (Blackburn refused the FAI permission to talk to him)....
    
    Any opinions as to what this new style will be?...
    
    He seems determined to get Chris Armstrong to declare himself an
    Irishman, so if this happens my guess at his first Irish team would
    be....
    
                                  Kelly
    
           Kernaghan            Kernaghan           Kernaghan
    
    Irwin                                                        Kelly
    
    
              Townsend           Keane         Kernagahan
    
    
                       Armstrong      Kernaghan
    
    subs, Kernaghan(x3)McGoldrick(x2)
    
    
    Ray....