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Friday, November 25, 2005

George Best, a true Legend 

George Best, a true Legend, has died.

It's a sad day for the football world, it's a sad day for me.

There are many things that have been, and will be, said about
the boy from Belfast who took the football world by the scruff
of its neck and launched it into the world of entertainment, whilst
rightfully earning the title of 'the world's first footballing superstar'.

I could write about the many exploits of the world's greatest ever
player, but if you don't already know the stories you can, or
probably already have, read them in the numerous news articles
printed online and in traditional print. So I'll skip that.

Back in November 1996 I spent an amazing 3 days with a Legend
I had always dreamt of meeting. It was whilst I was running Kuala
Lumpur's first sports bar and I had brought George over from the
UK to do some publicity work for us.

Despite all of his well publicised shortcomings, this great footballer
is one of the gentlest, kindest, warmest, charitable and totally genuine
human beings I have ever met in all of my 45 yrs (20+ of which have
been spent traveling and meeting hundreds of thousands of people
both in and out of the entertainment world).

George made a profound impact on my life and I retain extremely
fond and vivid memories and I regret not having met up with him
again since. Especially as there were a couple of times during my
travels where our paths almost crossed.

I sit here with tears in my eyes, yet with warm feelings and joy that
I experienced from not only spending quality time with him, but also
from the sheer excitement of watching a true magician with a football.

George you will be missed and as you quite rightly said :

“They won’t remember who I dated, the fights, the car crashes or whatever.
They won’t remember any of that because it’s not important. They will
remember the football”.

NO one who saw him play will ever forget George Best.

I won’t forget him for the person that he actually was.

God Bless you George.

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