Charlton, Bobby (11 Oct 1937- ) was an English forward who became both a legend at Manchester United and national hero as a key member of the World Cup winning team of 1966.   Born in Ashington on October 11th 1937, younger brother of future Leeds United and England legend Jack, he was a relative of the famous Milburn footballing family (through his mother) and was encouraged by his mother who coached him herself in a local park.  He was finally seen by a Manchester United scout who could not conceal his enthusiasm: 'I don't want to butter you up, Missis, but your boy will play for England before he's twenty-one'.  The word about this prodigious talent soon got out and Mrs Charlton found herself besieged by scouts from no fewer than eighteen different clubs.   Bobby was, however, to spend his entire playing career with Manchester United, for whom he signed in 1954.  He won a League Championship medal in 1957 and had already attracted much attention as one of the most gifted of the Busby Babes when he was injured in the Munich Air Crash in 1958 that killed many of the club's star players.   That same year he made his debut for England.  In 1963 he played a major role in Manchester United's FA Cup triumph, as he also did in the club's two League Championship victories in 1965 and 1967.   His finest moment as a club player came in 1968 when Manchester United defeated Benefica in the final of the European Cup.  He was selected to play for England in the world cup campaigns of 1958, 1962, 1966, and 1970.  Charlton played a key role in England’s victory of West Germany in the 1966 final  and that same year was voted European Footballer of the Year.  At the time of his retirement from the England team in 1970, he was the nation's most capped player, having turned out 106 times at the highest level, and he remained for more more than four decades his country’s top goal scoarer with 49 goals.  George Best said of Charlton: "I've never seen anyone go past players as easily as he did." "There has never been a more popular footballer," Sir Matt Busby once declared. "He was as near perfection as man and player as it is possible to be."    After retirement in 1973 Charlton served as manager of Preston North End and Wigan before joining Manchester United as a member of the board. He was knighted in 1994.