Remembering George Best on his 79th birthday, the Belfast-born icon's journey from teenage prodigy at Manchester United to a ...

George was unique, the greatest talent our football has ever produced – easily ... and Manchester United had lost most of its great players. In 1968 we’d won the European Cup, and four ...

Thus, George ruled the football ... strength as a player was that he didn’t have a weakness. There was a time when he could have played anywhere in the team and been the best in that position.

George Best was a notorious ladies' man A year later, he was dropped from the team again for failing to attend training, and was ordered to leave the house he had built in Cheshire and move into ...

Perhaps the best pointer to where George Best sits among the footballing gods comes from ... Pele's avalanche of 1,280 goals in a career that stretched over 20 years dwarfs just about any other player ...

A collection of prized George Best mementos including his first ever football boots has sold for ... awards and tops he swapped with opposition players. One of those was a Benfica shirt he ...