George Best

dont think he'll be interested in joh Mcenroe either glp

 

About which part?

 

It's plainly obvious which part - the part that you didn't know George Best had died.

 

Wasn't obvious, you might have meant the bit about me thinking he was a bit of a ****.

I didn't know one way or the other if he was alive or dead. I've got zero memory of it and if I was on Millionaire id have 100% had to ask the audience. As i said, he meant absolutely nothing to me so why would I know?

I 100% thought Jon Goodman was dead until I saw he was in the Roseanne reboot. Because, likewise, he means nothing to me.

 

And yet you think ask the audience would be able to help you, strange.

 

I think most people are more interested in George Best than me and would remember if he was dead or not.

 

He used to defend himself saying that as he'd started in the Man Utd team at 17 he had nearly 10 years before he really began to **** up.

 

I'll always remember where I was when someone told me John Lennon had been dead years.

 

From the clips on that there documentary he scored a few decent goals but lost the ball nearly every time he had the twat.

Overrated if you ask me, just like Pele.

I also thought he came across as a tool.

I'm with Bummers.

 

But you knew he was no longer with us?

 

Give me some credit, everyone knows he moved to America years ago.

Still lives there with some blonde bird as far as I know.

 

And Elvis?

 

Died on the khazi..

Too many of those posh beef burgers did for the fat whack.

Try and keep up Gilpers.

 

Bit like you?

 

I'm on the khazi.

I like posh burgers

I'm ****ting myself now, worried sick.

 

Depends on how you define the word. Rather than pissing about for larks on a message board, I was more thinking the have a transplant and then continue boozing plus the misogyny elements.

 

Used to knock his Mrs about.

No need to say anymore.

 

Saw Best play about half a dozen times..He was $hit each time. Over rated..over blown...Modern media's first love child.

 

Think I saw him with Fulham home and away that season he was with Bobby Moore.

What a shame they dint show his goal v Sheffield ...always enjoy seeing him destroy their whole defence.

 

I used to drink in the same pub as a bloke who'd been a regular at Old Trafford in the 60s and 70s. He'd started going in about 1965 as a very young lad, taken by his dad. Told me that he'd always get passed to the front of the terrace with all the other young kids while his dad would stand at the back with his friends. After the games when he was chatting with his dad, he'd often describe a goal that Best had scored, maybe beating a man and sliding it under the keeper, only to be told by his dad that Best had in fact beaten four men and hammered it into the top corner. The young kids at the front had seen one goal, and as the Chinese whispers made it to the back of the terrace, the older blokes with the restricted view heard about a very different one.

That kind of sums up Best for me. He's quite possibly the finest British footballer of all time (I'm open to arguments in favour of John Charles, Bobby Charlton and Kenny Dalglish too) but also perhaps the most over-hyped. When Ryan Giggs scored that goal against Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final in 1999, Denis Law said on Sky Sports the nest day "That's very good Ryan, but George Best used to do that every week." Except he didn't. The simple facts borne out by his goalscoring record prove that. Manchester United fans and other dewy-eyed old sods rank him alongside Di Stefano, Puskas, Pele, Cruyff, Maradona, Zidane, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo... They're wrong. He might just get into the tier down from that, alongside Eusebio, Beckenbauer, Platini, Maldini, Iniesta, etc... Even typing that out feels generous though. And if he'd looked like Ralph Coates, you'd barely hear about him these days.