| George will qualify as perhaps the most famous person in the entire 70-71 album. As a Leeds fan with no direct memory of the Sixties, his legendary brilliance as the World's most skilful footballer largely passed me by. My first hand memories are more of the troubled fading superstar, who missed training sessions and played for rubbish clubs ... like Fulham. But everyone who follows football learns the George Best stories from both on and off the pitch, and without the natrual talent he would never have made the grade as one of football's most glamourous names. But Bournemouth? He was a member of the Manchester United side that robbed Leeds of the Championship in 1965, and the Championship side of 1967 that subsequently won the European Cup. Sadly as a Northern Ireland international, he was never to set a World Cup competition alight. When George was 50, the UK's national television devoted an evening to him, and so the myth grows out of the legend. George probably still qualifies as Stockport County's most illustrious name. |
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