RIP George Best
 

RIP .... A fallen legend, but a legend none the less ... players like George put the beauty into "the beautiful game" ....

Sorry Dibbs I wish I could share in your sentiment.!!!
But I can't, he was given a second chance and threw it away.
He has spent more time on a pub floor then ever he did on the football pitch. Maybe now he will find the peace he in life he was always looking for. RIP George.

Stand by for the hail storm

Jon
I'm afraid as much as he was an outstanding footballer I just wonder if there is a young person that has lost their life due to not getting the transplant that GB had and would have really appreciated a new lease of life to cherish.
All I can think of is the surgeons wasted skills.
ian

Alcohol - One of the most addictive drugs on earth. If you've never craved your first drink of the day before 7 a.m. you wouldn't understand.

Phil

I feel really sad about the state of one of the worlds greatest footballers.

But i was really p1ssed off with the ITV news at 10.30 followed by Granada soccer night to be shown at midnight, all about the life and times of George Best when as off 23.00 hours he was still alive, yet everyone was talking as if he was actually dead.

Can't they leave stuff like this untill he has unfortunately passed away, then RIP.

(sorry Dibble, rant directed at the TV not you mate)

[Edited on 25-11-2005 by BDG]

shades of Mark Twain?
 

Some quotes from the old boy:

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
George Best

I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes.
George Best

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.
George Best

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
George Best

Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny colour

I've always liked:

"I've got a thirst like George Best after a Rivita munching session in the Sahara Desert"

I think this is the first time all the press are giving epitaphs when the subject is still alive. Drunken p$%s-head in my opion. Ditto the other remark about organ doner.

Seems he's still with us as I write this but not for much longer.
Whatever his downfall there is no doubting he was a genius on the football pitch who brought pleasure to many, and for that alone his passing is sad.
As ever at this time, thoughts should surely be for his surviving family.

no sympathy at all for him. sorry