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Former Manchester United and England star Bobby Charlton as his death is announced. He leaves behind a legacy as the gentlemanly embodiment of English football's golden era. A survivor of the Munich air disaster in 1958, which claimed the lives of eight of his United team-mates, Charlton recovered to win the World Cup with England in 1966 and the European Cup with United two years later. Renowned as a player for both his venomous shooting and sense of fair play, he became a United director in later life and came to be seen as a standard-bearer for a bygone era of chivalry and sportsmanship. PHOTOS