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George Best - Remembered
George Best died November 2005 just 6 months before his 60th birthday. Widely regarded as a footballing genius and on of the greatest players to have ever graced the game this rare and insightful programme gives an up close and personal look at life and times of Best both on and the pitch by the people who knew him best.Signing for Manchester United at the age of 17 Bests career went from strength to strength going on to win the Football League Championship and European Cup as well as winning 37 caps for Ireland. In 1968 Best was named 'Footballer of The Year' by the Footballer Writers Association the youngest player to do so at the age of 21. He also won European Footballer of the Year.Ultimately it as his 'celebrity lifestyle' that started a steady decline in his career his extravagant
lifestyle leading to problems with alcoholism and his demise in 2005.In this definitive and in depth programme George's father Dickie Best tells his son's story charting his Journey from sporting hero to alcoholic. Dickie provides a family's unique perspective on one of the rarest and most precarious football talents ever seen and one of the sport's first true International celebrities"ed as saying I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.This programme features archive training and match footage as well as first time and exclusive access to the Best family's home cine footage and photos. It also features personal and intimate scenes from the actual funeral and extensive interviews with the Best family Including George's sister Barbara and
brother-in-law Norman McNarry.
lifestyle leading to problems with alcoholism and his demise in 2005.In this definitive and in depth programme George's father Dickie Best tells his son's story charting his Journey from sporting hero to alcoholic. Dickie provides a family's unique perspective on one of the rarest and most precarious football talents ever seen and one of the sport's first true International celebrities"ed as saying I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.This programme features archive training and match footage as well as first time and exclusive access to the Best family's home cine footage and photos. It also features personal and intimate scenes from the actual funeral and extensive interviews with the Best family Including George's sister Barbara and
brother-in-law Norman McNarry.
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