CHARLTON

He came back from a plane crash to become the most graceful long-range shooter the English game has known, equally lethal with either foot from thirty yards. The almanac records one title from three tournaments — fourteen finals appearances, four goals — and a 1966 in which his two semi-final strikes did as much as anything to win the trophy. A champion at club and country, and the very picture of how the game wished to be remembered.

• All four of his World Cup finals goals came in the same two tournaments: one in 1962 and three in 1966 — he did not score in his final World Cup in 1970.
• He survived the 1958 Munich air disaster, was named European Footballer of the Year in 1966, and lifted the European Cup with Manchester United in 1968.
• His 49 goals in 106 England caps stood as the national record for over four decades, until Wayne Rooney passed it in 2015.