Jack Charlton: Encyclopedia II - Jack Charlton - Management

Jack Charlton - Management

He was quickly offered the job as manager of Middlesbrough and he led them to promotion back to the top flight in his first season by such a considerable margin that he was given the Manager Of The Year award, an honour never before bestowed on a boss from outside the top division. He famously appeared on a football programme on ITV during this period where he said he'd once had a "little black book" of names of players whom he intended to hurt or exact some form of revenge upon during his playing days. He later said this was a figure of speech and no such book existed.

Charlton quit Middlesbrough in 1977 and applied unsuccessfully for the job of England coach which had been controversially vacated by the resignation of his old Leeds boss Revie. He ultimately went to Sheffield Wednesday and took them to promotion from the third tier, almost then taking them up to the top flight in 1982. He resigned in 1983, went briefly back to Middlesbrough, then ventured a little further north to his boyhood club Newcastle United. He lasted just a year in the job before, after the first signs of unrest from supporters, he quit.

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