Editing Jack Charlton (section)

====1994 World Cup====
To [[1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)|qualify]] for the [[1994 FIFA World Cup|1994 World Cup]] in the US, Ireland had to finish first or second in a [[1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA – Group 3)|seven-team group]] of Spain, [[UEFA Euro 1992|European champions]] [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]], Northern Ireland, [[Lithuania national football team|Lithuania]], [[Latvia national football team|Latvia]], and [[Albania national football team|Albania]]. Lithuania, Latvia, and Albania proved to be little threat to the Irish, and both home and away matches against these three teams earned Ireland the maximum of two points. The two most difficult fixtures – Denmark and Spain away – ended in goalless draws. John Aldridge had a goal disallowed for offside against the Spanish which even Spain manager [[Javier Clemente]] said should have stood.<ref name="page 273">{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=273}}</ref> Ireland then beat Northern Ireland 3–0 at home before settling for a 1–1 draw with Denmark.<ref name="page 273"/> The qualification campaign was then derailed in the opening 26 minutes of the home tie with Spain as the Spanish took a three-goal lead; the game ended 3–1, with [[John Sheridan (footballer)|John Sheridan]]'s late consolation eventually proving crucial at the end of the campaign.<ref name="page 276">{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=276}}</ref> The final game was in Belfast against Northern Ireland during a tense period of [[The Troubles]].<ref name="page 276"/> [[Jimmy Quinn (footballer, born 1959)|Jimmy Quinn]] put Northern Ireland into the lead on 74 minutes, but four minutes later [[Alan McLoughlin]] scored the equalising goal to allow the Republic of Ireland to secure second place in the group due to their superior goals scored tally over Denmark.<ref name="page 278">{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=278}}</ref> When Quinn scored Northern Ireland assistant manager [[Jimmy Nicholl]] shouted "Up yours!" to his counterpart [[Maurice Setters]] (Charlton's assistant); in response to this Charlton approached Northern Ireland manager [[Billy Bingham]] at the final whistle and told him "Up yours too, Billy".<ref name="page 278"/>

In the build up to the World Cup Charlton gave out first caps to [[Gary Kelly (footballer, born 1974)|Gary Kelly]], [[Phil Babb]] and [[Jason McAteer]]; he had difficulty convincing McAteer to join Ireland as he first had to turn down an approach by [[The Football Association|the FA]] to play for the [[England national under-21 football team|England under-21]]s.<ref>{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=282}}</ref> He scheduled difficult matches before the tournament and Ireland picked up positive results by beating both the Netherlands and [[Germany national football team|Germany]] away from home.<ref>{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=283}}</ref> Ireland opened [[1994 FIFA World Cup Group E|the group stage]] of the tournament by beating Italy 1–0 at the [[Giants Stadium]], Ray Houghton scoring the winning goal on 11 minutes.<ref>{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=289}}</ref> They then fell to a 2–1 defeat to [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]] at the [[Camping World Stadium|Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium]], during which Charlton had a pitch-side argument with an official who was preventing substitute John Aldridge (who went on to score the consolation goal) from taking the pitch minutes after his teammate Tommy Coyne had left the pitch and sat down on the bench.<ref>{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=293}}</ref> For his arguing, Charlton was suspended by [[FIFA]] for the final group game against [[Norway national football team|Norway]], and had to watch from the commentary box as Ireland qualified with a 0–0 draw.<ref>{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=294}}</ref> They faced the Netherlands in the Round of 16; [[Dennis Bergkamp]] put the Dutch ahead on 11 minutes after [[Marc Overmars]] took advantage of a mistake by [[Terry Phelan]], and [[Wim Jonk]] scored the second and final goal of the game from 30 yards after Packie Bonner fluffed an otherwise routine save.<ref>{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=295}}</ref> For his achievements Charlton was awarded the [[Freedom of the City of Dublin]] in 1994 by [[Lord Mayor of Dublin|Lord Mayor]] [[Tomás Mac Giolla]], the first Englishman to be given the honour since 1854.<ref>{{harvnb|Charlton|1996|p=296}}</ref>