IMFC Fans, please indulge me just this once. My hero would’ve been 73 today, but he died at 59. Far too soon, just like his one time sparkling career ended in the early 70’s.
George Best was sheer glamour. Every woman wanted him, every man wanted to be him! He was the first pop-star footballer, spawned by Britain’s Swinging Sixties, and the case study held up years later by Alex Ferguson as ‘how NOT to handle your star footballer’.
Not that the man who went on to become a Knight of the Realm didn’t appreciate George’s outrageous talent, he did, but he was also determined to learn from Manchester United’s past mistakes, as he guided the fledgling careers of Giggs and Beckham, Scholes and Butt.