Today, adidas and Manchester United launch a new collaborative clothing range, celebrating arguably the club’s greatest-ever player: George Best.
That we are still talking about George almost 20 years after his tragically early death, and 56 years on from the zenith of his football career – the 1968 European Cup final victory over Benfica – seems astonishing, in one sense.
But when you speak to those whose eyes were dazzled by the Northern Irishman operating at the peak of his powers – as in the 1967/68 season that inspired this clothing range – you understand: the kind of magic created by such artistry, such personality, such genius… well, it simply does not fade in the same way as many of life’s other memories.