Anyone I’ve spoken to who saw last week’s low-key BBC2 documentary about Bobby Charlton was struck by the same thing – the sheer humility of the man.
At Christmas, ESPN Classic screened a series of sporting documentaries, one of which was about another World Cup-winning Bobby, Moore. It was much the same story, of someone who’d scaled such magnificent heights but whose feet remained firmly on the ground ’til the day he died.
