| Charlton's final goal for the club came a month earlier, on 31 March, in a 2—0 win at , also in the First Division | Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which broke in the |
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| Ramsey had already cleared out some of the older players who had been reliant on the loyalty of the committee for their continued selection | During the early 1970s Manchester United were no longer competing among the top teams in , and at several stages were battling against relegation |
Charlton's goalscoring record was surpassed by Wayne Rooney on 8 September 2015, when Rooney scored a in a 2—0 win over Switzerland in a qualifying match for.
8| As he convalesced with family in Ashington, he spent some time kicking a ball around with local youths, and a famous photograph of him was taken | " He is also the honorary president of the National Football Museum, an organisation about which he said "I can't think of a better museum anywhere in the world |
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| "--Jacket by Richard Taylor Visual 2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 32 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Sir Bobby Charlton is one of the greatest footballers, who have played the game | With 249 goals, he is currently United's second-highest all-time goalscorer, after his record was surpassed by in 2017 |
He is related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Leeds United and Bradford City , Leeds United and Chesterfield , Leeds United and Bradford Park Avenue and Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale , and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer , was his mother's cousin.
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