John has died at the age of 72 My thoughts are with his family and friends at this time. RIP SG

Rest in Peace - the Gentle Giant

May the greatest ever Welsh footballer rest in peace. Jackarmy.net will be doing a tribute to John's life shortly.

One of Swansea and Wales greatest. Let's hope, although it should have been done sooner, there will now be a permanent memorial to an immense footballer and person.

god bless him, i am numb as i heard this sad news.

Greatest Welsh footballer ever.Gentleman till the last.LEGEND!

heart broken is the only way to describe my feelings memories of John will last forever rip jeff nicholls adelaide south australia

legend,gentleman,ambassador,giant Thoughts to his family and friends Watch

The greatest sportsman in Welsh history and a legend for Swansea to be proud of. It would be great if your new stadium could be named after him. It was shameful that he was never knighted. Welsh fans must get together to make some kind of memorial to him. RIP King John

RIP John my thoughts are with his family and friends. Would be a great idea if one of the stands at the new ground could be named after him. A true Swansea legend.

John was a gentle man in the beautiful game. Always the sportsman, never red-carded. Rest in Peace John. Respect.

a player well before my time unfortunately, but someone whos legend will live on long after all of us are gone! a true hero, a swansea, wales, and british footballing legend! and hopefuly soon we'll be able to grace a john charles memorial stand or musuem or something at our new stadium

Rest in Peace, a true legend

RIP John - You will NEVER be forgotton my friend !

God Bless John Charles RIP, and all his Family, I hope he finds a place where there is no pain only pleasure, no sadness only joy, no bad people only good people, where they play Football all day, and there is no trouble, and the beer and food is free. God it's at times like this you have to look at yourself in the mirror and thank God for what you have, I am tears. A Very Sad Reeco

RIP john Charles - a player that i have only ever dreamed of watching play the beautiful game, one of the greatest welsh and swans players ever. GONE BUT NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN.

Just like to add my condolencies to the Great man, as a fan of italian football he is still worshipped over there "the Gentle Giant" The only British player to master serie a Il Gigante Buono... is a Juventus Legend and will be equally missed over there as he will be here RIP And i think the fact this is the headline in otaly today (milan derby day) yet even the milan based gazettoo dello sport front page...Addio Charles, gigante buono.

I translated that page into english, some weird stuff.......... LONDON, 21 February 2004 - John Charles ce has not made it. The former forward of the Juventus and the national Welshman, seriously sick, is died in its house of Leeds to the age of 72 years. A successive niggle had induced the doctors to amputate the fingers of the skillful foot. Charles disputed five samples to you in the Juventus, to leave from 1957, marking 93 left nets in 155 with the bianconeri. The Juventus has announced that tomorrow to Bologna it will observe a minute of Hush and it will play with the mourning to the arm. Weird?

Theres nothing i can say that hasn't been said the world over. One of the greatest by a long way. Condolences to all. God bless the big man RIP John Charles.

RIP John Charles Thoughts are with your family Always a Legend RG --- Post edited by Robbo_Gal on 21/2 14:36 ---

NAME IT OFFICIALLY SO AND STOP PROCRASTINATING. nO OTHER (APART FROM IVOR) COME CLOSE.aLL THE WORLD REVERED HIM and everyone who met him loved him. I used to know Denis Law quite well through business and often talked about Charlo. Denis(who was a legend in my eyes) said he(charlo) had no idea how good he was and was mystified why every one loved him so much.Ive been dreading this day for a while cos I feel that with Ivor and Charlo gone,a part of my childhood in Cwmbwrla and Manselton and Gendros had gone. Like Reeco very upset today. love to you all from the Wirral Swansea born-Swansea die

Like everyone else I feel sad and offer commiserations to his family. But as great a welshman as John Charles was, he played for Leeds, Juventus, Cardiff and Wales, not Swansea. I don't believe we should name the stadium after any player, but maybe stands could be named after players and then it should be shared between soccer and rugby player greats who wore the shirt of the teams playing there, two Swansea City FC players and one each Swansea and Neath RFC players.

It looks like there will be something to remember John Charles