Jack Charlton Tribute Page - Ireland

Happy heavenly birthday to Big Jack.
Legend.

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When Andy Townsend talks about Italia ’90, he always says there was a lot of time to kill.

Hotels. Waiting around. The lads getting bored.

And he said that’s when “you do daft things back in the day.” 

Townsend said he decided to have a bit of fun with Jack Charlton.

He did that old coin trick where you press a coin on someone’s forehead, then quietly take it away, but it still feels like it’s there.

Then he looked at Big Jack and basically made it a challenge.

Townsend told him, “you have six bangs on the back of your head to get this coin off” and, if he did it, “I will give you a tenner.” 

And Jack went for it.

Townsend said he was staring at the coin in his hand like it was still on Jack’s head, going, “go on Jack.” 

So Jack starts “banging his head really hard.”

He gets past six.

He gets to “about ten.”

And by that point the whole room is gone.

Townsend said “the guys are all falling around laughing” until it finally clicked for Jack that “it wasn’t there.” 

Ray Houghton said the best part was it wasn’t just the players laughing.

It was the Italian police as well.

Because to them, it looked like “a former World Cup winner… banging the back of his head” for absolutely no reason. 

And while all this is happening, Jack’s got his hand out, still trying to catch the coin like it’s about to fall off any second.

Townsend summed it up afterwards by admitting, “I was very lucky I wasn’t sent home for that.”

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