How meeting Manchester United legend Bobby Charlton left Hong Kong footballer Charlie Scott ‘gobsmacked’
- ‘He would always talk to us, more about your life than about football,’ Scott says of his time with the late United great at the club’s academy
- Kitchee midfielder admits he did not even recognise United legend when he first saw him however – as he carried himself as a ‘regular guy’
Bobby Charlton is set for a final footballing send-off in Sunday’s Manchester derby – and one of the many young players he inspired has paid a fitting tribute to the sporting legend.
Manchester United icon Charlton – who lifted the European Cup with the club in 1968 as captain at Wembley Stadium, 10 years after surviving the Munich air disaster – died aged 86 last week.
He will be honoured with a minute’s applause before the home Premier League game against Manchester City at Old Trafford.
Midfielder Charlie Scott, who now plays with Hong Kong champions Kitchee, grew up at United and when he signed a professional contract with the club in 2014 was joined for pictures by England great Charlton.
“When I first saw him at the training ground, I did not know who he was,” Scott – who was 15 at the time – told the Post.
He admitted that he did not recognise Charlton when he saw him in the car park at the training ground because there was no air of importance or superiority about him – so Scott thought he was just a “regular guy” working there.
