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For me, the most entertaining and skillful footballer that I have ever seen was a wee lad from Belfast, George Best.

The frist football superstar had it all, including birds, booze, fast cars and the most superb balance I’ve ever seen ona football field.

While in America I had the privilege to see Pele, Muller, Cruyf, Marsh and many others, but George sood out from the rest. Not only that but I enjoyed a beer with him in Toronto and a Bottled water many years later when he returned to County Down in Northern Ireland for some rest and relaxation, with his former wife Angie.

I was fortunite to be a photographer back in 1988 at his Testimonial at Windsor Park in Belfast. Even then, he was something special. Someday soon those photographs shall also grace the pages of this site.

This little video is perhaps a reminder, or an eye opener to a footballer who, didn’t dive (EVER), cheat, had lumps licked out of him every week, played with a heavy ball in basic boots on fields akin to Sunday league pitches by today’s standards and who saw himself as an entertainer and not an overpaid poser like so mny of today’s ‘superstars, many of whom, would never get into a team in an era that contained the likes of Best, Charlton, Law, Hurst, Peters, Cooke, Osgoode, Astle, Jennings, Banks, Moore, Styles, Bremner, Clarke, Bell, Summerbee and many other ‘real’ players from a bygone age.

Sadly George passed away at the age of just 59. He may be gone but never forgotten.