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George Best

February 2024

  • Best At Dunstable<br>A bearded George Best in action for the Southern League club Dunstable Town during a match against Manchester United reserve players in Bedforshire. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) landscape;clothing;ball;male;Sport;Football;British;Irish;Europe 3348;KEY/SPORT/FOOTBALL/PORTRAIT/GEORGE/BEST/BOX

    Guardian Sport Network
    George Best’s inglorious post-Manchester United career, 50 years on

    Half a century after his final match for United at the age of 27, a look at the final years of star’s footballing journey

January 2024

  • George Best's football boots

    Hang up your boots? How Pelé’s and Best’s were saved in Wiltshire

    Conservation experts turn to experimentation after drawing blank researching substances used in badly degraded plastic

August 2022

  • Bobby Charlton and George Best in action against Fulham in 1971. Their relationship would deteriorate in the early 1970s.

    The feud between Best and Charlton that shattered Manchester United

    By the early 1970s the warring club legends were so divided that they were no longer speaking – nor passing – to one another

February 2020

  • George Best celebrates after scoring his sixth goal in Manchester United’s 8-2 win at Northampton.

    Six of the Best: when George ran riot for Manchester United 50 years ago

    George Best got six goals at Northampton in the FA Cup on 7 February 1970 in his push to prove the ‘cranks’ wrong

August 2019

  • George Best, in profile, smiling

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: football archetypes in 1968

    Arthur Hopcraft assesses footballing greats, from George Best to Matt Busby

May 2019

  • The newly unveiled statue of George Best outside Winsdor Park in Belfast.

    ‘Worse than Ronaldo’s’: fans mock George Best statue in Belfast

    Artwork joins list of footballers’ bronzes that received less than glowing reviews

December 2018

  • Barney Ronay

    Sportblog
    A reminder that Manchester United were not always too rich to go down

    Barney Ronay
    Manchester United being relegated is now unthinkable but when they went down in 1974 the club was revitalised

September 2018

  • Michael Parkinson: ‘The greatest joy in my life is listening to music.’

    The balance
    Sir Michael Parkinson: ‘It is one of the great mysteries how my 59-year marriage has lasted’

    The broadcaster on waking in the night, writing a book about his friend George Best, and how he couldn’t live without music

January 2018

  • Neymar Jr of Paris Saint-Germain

    What is the point of super-rich football?

    Letters: Just six clubs – Manchester City, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Paris-Saint German – dominate European football, writes Will Goble

June 2017

  • CD-2 George Best 1<br>Manchester United star George Best poses with former fiancee Eva on Best's Lotus Elan car. Please credit: Popperfoto. Please note: NO CREDIT - FEE DOUBLED.

    A brush with greatness
    The day George Best overtook me in a Lotus on the Harrogate Road

    It’s 1969, and a starstruck schoolboy catches a glimpse of the absurdly talented footballer and his Danish fiancee

May 2017

  • GEORGE BEST - 1968<br>1968: Belfast-born George Best on the pitch for Manchester United. Best joined Manchester United from school and made his senior debut at the age of 17. Best was voted Footballer of the Year for 1968.

    Football Weekly
    The legacy of George Best - Football Weekly Meets Dan Gordon

    Iain Macintosh speaks to filmmaker Daniel Gordon about his documentary George Best: All By Himself, which charts the career of the Manchester United legend through his glory years on the field and the addictions off it that ultimately killed him

March 2017

  • Richard Williams

    George Best film misses the target but his genius still shines through

    Richard Williams
    The ante has been raised on sport documentaries in recent years – the Best film needed more footage of its dazzling subject and fewer talking heads

February 2017

  • Best in action against Chelsea’s Ron Harris in 1971.

    Best (George Best: All By Himself) review – recycled pub anecdotes

  • George Best<br>Manchester United footballer George Best celebrates the opening of his fashion boutique with a few glasses of champagne. 14th September 1967.

    Best review – George Best documentary is a goalless trudge

October 2016

  • Outnumbered … George Best takes on the locals near his old home on the Cregagh Estate, in the late 1960s.

    Why I love …
    ‘Everyone has a story about George Best’ – documentary-maker Dan Gordon on Belfast

    From murals to museums, there’s a lot to enjoy in the city that launched a footballing superstar – and the Titanic

January 2016

  • George Best wins the 1968 Ballon d'Or

    Memory Lane: Ballon d'Or winners down the years – in pictures

    Before the 2016 Fifa Ballon d’Or winner is announced , we take a look at some of the winners of its previous incarnation, the European Footballer of the Year

November 2015

  • Ray Green's portrait series of George Best, taken in April 1967.

    Football classics
    George Best – a life in pictures

  • George Best, British football’s first superstar, became the victim of alcohol addiction; in another age, Ronaldo has turned fame into a massive fortune.

    Genius, celebrity, outsider: films show George Best and Cristiano Ronaldo share same story

October 2015

  • George Best

    Long-lost George Best art film is resurrected by Irish composer

  • George Best

    George Best: Football As Never Before re-release – video extract

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