World Cup winner Jack Charlton has been taken to hospital after collapsing during a family holiday in Spain.
The 74-year-old was taken to a private clinic after falling ill in Mascarat on the Costa Blanca complaining of eye problems, his son John said.
Tests were inconclusive and he was discharged to return to his family.
Born in Northumberland, he played for Leeds United and became manager of Middlesbrough, Sheffield Wednesday, Newcastle and the Republic of Ireland.
The Puke will be devastated…
Is Michael D a yank?
Why is he calling it soccer?
It was always commonly called soccer in Ireland. If you listen to old interviews with old pros like dunphy and Giles they would often call it soccer. The obsession with calling it football is a modern thing borrowed from Britain. I think in a lot of countries with another popular form of football its called soccer.
We call it calcio in Italy.
It’s futbol in Spain
Football in France.
Fussball in Germany.
etc etc
It’s also the Football Association of Ireland, not soccer.
No self respecting football man calls it “soccer”.
Thought Calico was a material!?as in Calico trousers ( exert from some childhood school poem)
lovely
This one isn’t as black and white as you think, especially among the older crowd like the fellas I referenced. It’s a sunny day though and I CERTAINLY am not getting into a back and forth about it 
I’m glad it wasn’t Leo, lads on here don’t like Leo using his stationary.
Yet it’s “The scummy soccer crowd” on TFK. The alternative phrase involving the use of the term football just hasn’t that ring of authenticity to it.
Charlton was a very good Irish manager. The likes of Dunphy of course had to stick his oar in.
Outside urban areas I would say the vast majority call it soccer
No
Ireland v Holland 1990 is on tg4 now. Well worth watching the last 20 mins lads. Best fix ever.
Jack was fab
