England World Cup winner and former Republic of Ireland manager Jack Charlton underwent surgery after breaking his hip in a fall at home.

Charlton, 76, suffered the fracture after falling down the stairs at his home earlier this week and has now had hip replacement surgery.

“He’s fine. He had the operation this morning and the operation was fine. Everything went well,” his son John told the Press Association.

“They will probably keep him in over the weekend and let him out on Monday if everything is fine. With hip replacements, which is what he has had, they don’t tend to keep them in too long.

“They do hip replacements all the time and they said it’s not a big operation and, as long as he came through it okay, they expected him to make a full recovery.”

Charlton was a member of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning team, playing alongside brother Sir Bobby Charlton.

He later enjoyed a successful career in international management, feted in Ireland for leading the country to the World Cups in 1990 and 1994.