True Genius: George Best

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In the 1950s, as he points out, footballers had advertised such homely items as hair‑oil and shinpads. While there have been many books on George Best, this is the only biography that captures the football story so exhaustively, unearthing revealing material that will shed new light on one of the game’s most naturally gifted players. For all fans of the Belfast Boy Wonder, this book is what we've all been waiting for - a detailed account of George Best's playing career.

On 17 November, he was the subject of Eamonn Andrews's biographical television show This Is Your Life when he was surprised at a central London restaurant.You can't help concluding that football itself is an endlessly fascinating spectacle, but the majority of professional footballers are not. However a home defeat to hated local rivals Manchester City proved costly, as City claimed the league title with a two-point lead over United. In the early hours of 25 November 2005, treatment was stopped; later that day he died, aged 59, as a result of a lung infection and multiple organ failure. Alcoholism had him in its grip from an early age, affecting the love affairs that fed the tabloid headlines, but there was far more to Best than booze and birds. One infamous incident saw Best initially sacked by Hibs after he went on a massive drinking session with the French rugby team, who were in Edinburgh to play Scotland.

When entering your personalisation, please note that accents, emojis and other symbols can’t be used as our system doesn’t support these. En el año 66 el periódico deportivo portugués A Bola lo bautizaría como “El Beatle”, apodo que lo acompañaría siempre. Best's last competitive game for the club was on 1 January 1974 against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road, which United lost 3–0.

That is only one half of the story, and I won’t spoil either half, suffice it to say that it completely reframes George’s exit and almost completely removes his culpability. This meant that he had won the three major honours in club football at the age of just 22 (the league title, European Cup, and European Player of the Year award).

Dos años más tarde (1968) de aquel doblete mítico ante el Benfica de Eusebio en cuartos de final en el torneo europeo, el futbolista norirlandés ganaría la Copa de Europa con el Manchester United y se consagraría como el mejor jugador del mundo, galardonado con el prestigioso trofeo concedido por la revista France Football que recogería un año más tarde. The playing fields in the estate where he played football as a boy, Cregagh Green, is protected for community recreation in perpetuity as a Fields in Trust Active Space. Christened the Fifth Beatle at his peak, Best was the first pop star footballer and had teenage girls flocking to Old Trafford decades before the likes of Giggs and Beckham.George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional football player, best known for his years with Manchester United.

I enjoyed the football descriptions as well as the relationship ones and thought it was a brilliant though sad read. In 2004, she alleged that Best was violent towards her at times during their marriage, an issue that was covered in Best's authorised 1998 biography " Bestie" in which Alex claimed that Best punched her in the face on more than one occasion. It turned out that the gentleman Roy Collins who was on his way to report on an Arsenal match in Turkey , he mentioned in passing that he had ghost written Georgie Bests latest autobiography . Best also won the Ballon d'Or in 1968 after receiving more votes than Bobby Charlton, Dragan Džajić and Franz Beckenbauer.United improved slightly under new boss Wilf McGuinness, but still only managed an eighth-place finish in the 1969–70 season. It continues into the 1980s, by which times he has become a husband and father and has also had to come to terms with alcoholism. On 20 November, the tabloid News of the World published a picture of Best (at his own request) showing him in his hospital bed with jaundice, along with a warning about the dangers of alcohol with his message: "Don't die like me".