The season ticket holder, now approaching his 95th birthday, began passing through the turnstiles at Anfield in the era of Billy Liddell, several years before even a certain Bill Shankly pitched up and started a Reds revolution.
Charlie watched on from the terraces as the incomparable Scot constructed a team capable of hauling his club out of the Second Division and also-ran status to the top flight, league championship glory and an historic first FA Cup.
European nights under the floodlights, Shankly’s second great team, the handing of the baton to Bob Paisley, the Boot Room, the genius of Kenny Dalglish, dominance at home and abroad, highs and lows, the modern game in the Premier League.