Will The Real Georgie Best Please Stand Up

Here is my take on George Best. Robin has his own very valid opinions, here are mine, also very valid.

I was, believe it or not very caught up in the world of football in my very early teenage years. If you wanted to be popular with the boys at school you had to be!
I was in the first year of Dendigh High School in the great year of 1966 so got really caught up in that particular World event.
Just on the scene that year Georgie Best was emerging, the real George Best I mean not the pathetic excuse of a man that he was to become.

He was fabulous, exciting on and off the field and like nothing we had ever seen before. Even I can appreciate that he was a total wonder the like of which had never been seen perhaps until Pele arrived. He had the world at his feet and basically he could not cope with the pressures put upon him.
Us girls thought he was sex on legs the trouble was, so did George! We worshipped his prowess and forgave him his odd misdemeanors.
Well, if he did not turn up for training he was probably a bit tired!.
How can you expect a man to play football if he has had a late night! On it went.

Then suddenly you felt a bit let down by it all. His club needed him, we needed him to be a bit more responsible. The headlines about Bad Boy George got a bit monotonous.

Suddenly you thought maybe the gilt was coming off the ginger bread, didn't he sound just a teenee bit slurred in that interview. Wasn't that comment just a tiny bit arrogant?

One blonde model after another, surely the man could have a little more respect for himself.

Eventually after really only a few short years at the top he was a has been and it was only one persons fault! Old Georgie Boy's!

Once he became an 'alcoholic' or chose to be one! I new all was lost. He became self pitying, selfish , violent, manipulative and down right nasty.

In the end Best suffered the most from his self destruct mode, It was the longest suicide in history, but I am not sorry for him but indeed hope his soul is at peace.

I will remember my lost youth and the Georgie Best as was, lithe, sexy and a twinkle in his Irish eyes and magic in his Irish feet. God Rest his troubled soul!