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Captain
25-11-2005, 01:10 PM
George Best has just died.
He was a great footballer and man and will be missed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4380332.stm

http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetmQXk/legends/Best1.jpg
patch
25-11-2005, 01:44 PM
Even though i was expecting it, it's still hard to believe.
LemonadePudding
25-11-2005, 01:47 PM
poor george, what a man.
Meatball
25-11-2005, 01:49 PM
well, he suffered enough, it was probably best he went! Poor Best.
piemastermike
25-11-2005, 01:55 PM
he was an alcoholic who abused his new liver, so poor george doesnt really seem very fitting to me.
Meatball
25-11-2005, 01:58 PM
Poor, because of what he was, he was in the same league as Pele and Eusebio and it all went downhill. He could have been so much better and an inspiration to other young people. but now his what they aspire what not to be.
Playbus
25-11-2005, 02:00 PM
About fucking time.

George Best didn't stop drinking after he was given a replacement liver. It's for this reason that the doctors initially told him to go fuck himself if he thought he was getting a transplant but after shit loads of pressure (and money) they caved and gave it to him...

If he wasn't George Best, he never would have been given that transplant. Why should a 50+ year old be given an organ so that his binge could be extended by a few months when there are thousands of people out there that genuinely have given up drinking and are still waiting?

I think he was a twat.
Olly
25-11-2005, 02:03 PM
I, for one, am glad the wanker's dead. He was a boozing, weak-willed chancer who changed his liver like most people change their outfit.

Plus, he molested that ten year old girl. Everyone rather likes to gloss over that particular part of his, ahem... 'illustrious' career.
Mellomeh
25-11-2005, 02:14 PM
I, for one, am glad the wanker's dead. He was a boozing, weak-willed chancer who changed his liver like most people change their outfit.

Plus, he molested that ten year old girl. Everyone rather likes to gloss over that particular part of his, ahem... 'illustrious' career.
She was 13 and the charges were dropped, therefore he is legally innocent.

Still hated him, did you know that after the public saw what he was doing to his new liver, donations for transplants went down?
Garry3
25-11-2005, 02:16 PM
Everyone rather likes to gloss over that particular part of his, ahem... 'illustrious' career.

Try again, his career was as a football player, you are commenting on his personal life. People need to focus on the fact that he was one of the greatest talents ever seen on a football pitch. It was behind the scenes that he got into trouble because he could pretty much do what he wanted. This was due to his vast amounts of money and celebrity status. It's just a shame that all those years ago clubs weren't as strict on what players are allowed to do outside the club, as glowing talents these days are watched very closely (e.g. young Mr. Rooney when he started to flourish).

Yes, he shouldn't have been given a new liver, but I'm not going to blame him for trying. I mean if you were in the same situation would you just sit back and wait for the inevitable?
Olly
25-11-2005, 02:20 PM
Try again, his career was as a football player, you are commenting on his personal life. People need to focus on the fact that he was one of the greatest talents ever seen on a football pitch.

Apologies for using the vernacular, but 'So?'

I am so sick and tired of seeing reprehensible people be forgiven because of their ability to score goals.
Psychokilla
25-11-2005, 02:43 PM
I have commented on George Best before and i still think that his transplant was a complete waste of a good liver that some 18 -19 year old could have had and actually used it properly for 50 years not destroyed it within 2 years like he did.
But i do have to say that as a football player he i believe he was on a par with the best players ever, he was up there with Pele ,Eusabio and the others without a doubt.
I think that his life should be taken as a template by all footballers of exactly what not to do, because he literally pissed it all away.
This was bound to happen and its been all over the news for the last week but its still a shock, and a sad event.
The man had the world at his feet, but gave into his own personal demons.
R.I.P George Best
Youlikeyams?
25-11-2005, 03:03 PM
To be honest I think he had it coming. he plagued himself with alcohol and wrecked himself. That said, he will be sorely missed. :(
Captain
25-11-2005, 03:56 PM
Being an alcholic is a desise.
Thats like saying its someone who has cancers fault. They brought it on themselves.
He was young so it was hard to battle against beer.
He never actualy drunk after his transplant. It was his tablets that did it. There was a risk for infection with them and sadly it happened.
His fame was the thing that funded his alcholism, but he would have been an alcholic without money.
Veerz
25-11-2005, 04:17 PM
i feel bad for his family, but George is in a better place now.
AngryPaul
25-11-2005, 04:35 PM
I salute him as a footballer. Plus, he was a genuinley nice person, drinking and womanising aside.

That man is, and forever will be, a United legend.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40954000/jpg/_40954022_best_7_pa.jpg
Shave
25-11-2005, 05:28 PM
personally, it doesn't really affect me. i'm too young to ever witness him play, i know he was a good player, but i've never experienced how good. and he just pissed it all away.
Thomp
25-11-2005, 05:30 PM
Wasn't around to watch him, but the archives show he was a magnificient footballer. I just don't feel a lot of sympathy for him. My heart goes out to his famil and friends, however

RIP
da_shiznit
25-11-2005, 05:40 PM
R.I.P to that legend, a fantastic man and player, just too bad he ruined his life and body with alcohol. If he hadnt, no doubt, he would have lived longer, and would be possibly more resepected, still RIP Georgie.
AngryPaul
25-11-2005, 06:13 PM
personally, it doesn't really affect me. i'm too young to ever witness him play, i know he was a good player, but i've never experienced how good. and he just pissed it all away."I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I squandered"
TX_101
25-11-2005, 06:47 PM
I'm not going to debate the manner in which he lived his life, for fear of speaking ill of the dead, so to speak. In that vein, I'd just like to say:

RIP Georgie, Hopefully in death you can find the peace that was missing from the last few years of your life.
streety
26-11-2005, 12:08 AM
He was one of the best players ever. It's always a shame when a legend dies. However, I have no sympathy for someone who was given another chance as pissed it all away.
Captain
26-11-2005, 12:27 AM
Being an alcholic is a desise.
Thats like saying its someone who has cancers fault. They brought it on themselves.
He was young so it was hard to battle against beer.
He never actualy drunk after his transplant. It was his tablets that did it. There was a risk for infection with them and sadly it happened.
His fame was the thing that funded his alcholism, but he would have been an alcholic without money.

I quote myself because it is needed to be done.

I would also like to apoligise for the million speliing mistakes.
patch
30-11-2005, 08:28 PM
I will be working at his funeral, in the capactiy of security guard, either at his father's home, stormont, or the graveyard. Strange how things turn out!!
dude in a box
30-11-2005, 09:41 PM
All I heard he was a good footballer who abused his liver through drinking, had a liver transplant and carried on drinking, what I think of him is what a pillock