Originally posted by sjegThis article pretty much sums it up
I think more importantly in this thread, you might ask why did Pele place Best above Maradonna, Platini, Crijff and himself as the best player of all time?
Might Pele perhaps know a thing or two about football? There's an outside chance...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4309502.stm
Originally posted by dan182Nice article:
This article pretty much sums it up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4309502.stm
But the "Best" article, excuse the pun (come back!) I read was by Kevin Myers in the Irish Times this week.
Did anyone read it? Probably not... and I can't find it on the web, so I can't really help.
Any Paddies out there know different?
Anyway, point being that he had far too much God-given talent for any mortal to deal with- in football he could do it all: dribble, sprint, head, tackle, shoot, and he is arguably the greatest ever seen, then add to that his good looks, sexuality and above all his wit- the best bits written this week have been quotations from the man himself. Rather puts Wayne (Faq off, ref, you faquing qunt) Rooney in perspective.
Anyway, Myers' article was the extremely well written. Sorry I can't give you a link.
George Best
He was a good footballer, well paid at the time.
He enjoyed being seen with lots of lovely ladies.
He drank too much.
He died.
Bluddy hell that could relate to anyone!
does anyone remember Boris Sponsanov who died in 1913?
He was a good tiddly winks player, well paid at the time.
He enjoyed being seen with lots of lovely ladies.
He drank too much.
He died.
Why do people get cut up when a "celebrity" dies? Thousands of people die every day, many have done great work in their chosen field, yet because they were not a footballer, actor, etc their death passes the majority of people by.
At the end of the day George Best was just an employee getting paid to do a job, the same as you and I.
Originally posted by adramforallOk... next time you nutmeg a fellow worker with a rolled-up ball of sellotape on the factory floor, send us in a home video, and we'll erect a memorial to you for being a hero of the working classes, who drank too much, and (well, you know the rest).
George Best
He was a good footballer, well paid at the time.
He enjoyed being seen with lots of lovely ladies.
He drank too much.
He died.
Bluddy hell that could relate to anyone!
does anyone remember Boris Sponsanov who died in 1913?
He was a good tiddly winks player, well paid at the time.
He enjoyed being seen with lots of lovely l ...[text shortened]... end of the day George Best was just an employee getting paid to do a job, the same as you and I.
Originally posted by StarrmanYou leered over my then girlfriend when we were walking down Old Bond Street years ago, when she asked you if you'd scored lately.
You leered over my girlfriend in a Surbiton restaurant six weeks ago, I had previously thought you were a tosser, turns out I was right.
[The blonde bird with him didn't think it was funny, but he did.]
