I remember a BBC Wales program which also covered many of the things already mentioned in this thread...but also had a great interview with him that ran throughout the program. They showed it a couple of days before Christmas just after he died. In one clip he was recalling how the whole transfer to Juve came about and that his signing on fee included a Fiat 500, which every player was given as the family which owned the club also owned Fiat... It's crazy to think now that when he was set to leave Leeds, he was in a hotel in London, where representatives from Arsenal were in one room and on another floor were representatives from Cardiff, whilst he was going between the 2 to try and decide on which team to sign for. Nothing was concluded and so he ended up at Juve. What a chance missed by both clubs, as even though he did grace Ninian Park later in his career, it was definitely the case that he was passed his best and we were no longer at the level we had been at during the earlier negotiations either...who knows if he'd have signed at the first chance, we might have been? They also spoke to the President of Juve who said that even at his age (in his 60s-ish), if he could find another player of JC's quality anywhere in the world, he would personally go there and carry the player on his back all the way to Turin!
Easily...... And if some oligarch or sheik decided they wanted to get in a bidding war...then who knows???!!! But I romantically like to think that he'd be less-inclined to play for a club simply based on the highest bid...and rather that the passion for the game, style of play and suchlike would still have been his main focus were he playing in the current era... Let's just say, that I couldn't ever imagine that he'd slip-up and say Milan, in the press-conference where he was being unveiled as a Juve player! (Ring any bells???)
Who slipped up? I quite enjoyed when Mascherano said "we beat a great team in Leeds United" after the Champions league final when they where playing Man U last year haha but not sure which slip up your referring to?
Charles also had a respectable hit in Italy with country song Sixteen Tons. A true legend. What a chance Leeds United have missed out on with these medals; they would have been a great acquisition for the proposed museum. Hope they don't end up in some anorak's man drawer.
Did a Google search for him and he appears to be from Newport! [NSFW]Newport, Rhode Island. Not Newport, Gwent.[/NSFW]
