Twilight Honours At Leeds
In October 1970, Charlton famously appeared on a Tyne Tees football programme, where he said he'd once had a "little black book" of names of players whom he intended to hurt or exact some form of revenge upon during his playing days. He later said this was a figure of speech and that no such book existed.
Leeds won the Fairs Cup again in 1971, but lost the league championship to Arsenal. In 1972, Leeds finally won the FA Cup and Charlton completed his set of domestic medals. Although he continued playing, he suffered an injury in an FA Cup semi final in 1973 which ruled him out for the rest of the season. He battled to be fit for the final but failed, and consequently chose to retire from playing. He was 38 and had 774 club appearances and 96 goals to his name.
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