The day Sir Bobby Charlton got a Manchester United reception he felt he didn't deserve

When Sir Bobby Charlton took in the scene at Old Trafford on April 3, 2016, he turned to his great friend and former teammate Alex Stepney and whispered, "I don't deserve this."

It was the day Manchester United renamed the south stand the Sir Bobby Charlton Stand and opposite a mosaic reading 'Sir Bobby' was held up by supporters hailing one of the club's greatest-ever players and one of its most significant figures.

Charlton walked out onto the pitch before the match to take in the applause, marking his 60-year association with the club, from Busby Babe to the board of directors. It was typical of Charlton's modesty that he felt it was all too much, despite those 758 appearances, being the driving force behind the club's 10-year recovery from the Munich air disaster to champions of Europe and his influence behind the scenes in the Sir Alex Ferguson era.

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Stepney, who joined United in 1966 and spent seven years as a teammate of Charlton's, believes his friend was aware of just how significant a figure he was in English football, but that his modesty prevented him from getting carried away with it.

"He was but he never showed it. He didn’t want to show it because that wasn’t him," said Stepney. "When they opened the stand, I think it was the Everton game, I was with him and he had to go on the pitch with Norma [Charlton's wife] and he had a tear in his eye. I said ‘are you alright?’, and he said ‘I don’t deserve this’. I said ‘Bob, you deserve everything, you deserve everything you get, throughout your life for the way you have done the game, played the game and inspired