Paul Gascoigne is backing the Mirror’s call to give a posthumous knighthood to the man he called his “second dad” – Jack Charlton.
Gazza, 53, was just 17 years old when he first met the England World Cup ’66 hero at Newcastle United. Talking exclusively to the Mirror and looking lean and tanned, Gazza said: “I still cannot believe that they did not make him Sir Jack. “They should have given it to the entire 1966 World Cup team. “When you saw the end of the game, he was down on his knees, his head in his hands.
His country meant so much to him.” Gazza, an iconic figure for England after Italia 90 when he was arguably the best player on the planet, added: “It is all wrong that he did not get that honour, he was a hero in his time. “He has
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