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George Best : All by Himself Tonight BBC4 9pm

Covered End
Covered End Posts: 51,984
edited April 2020 in Other Football and Sports
Film/documentary about his life made 2016.

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  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Thanks for posting CE.  I'll be watching.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    Sounds good
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,984
    Bump.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Tis a cracking documentary...
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,033
    edited April 2020
    Just watching it now, brilliant stuff. I didn’t realise how quickly United declined after winning the European Cup, kinda like for Busby & Bobby Charlton it was the ending of an era and some sort of closing of the chapter that began with Munich but Best was just at the start of his career - must have been very frustrating for him. 

    One thing I’m noticing, they referred to him as Irish and I noted in a match he was playing against Scotland, they called Northern Ireland “Ireland” on the scoreboard. Was that normal then? How did they distinguish between NI & the Republic? 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,984
    The Republic used to be referred to as Eire when I was a kid.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,592
    se9addick said:
    Just watching it now, brilliant stuff. I didn’t realise how quickly United declined after winning the European Cup, kinda like for Busby & Bobby Charlton it was the ending of an era and some sort of closing of the chapter that began with Munich but Best was just at the start of his career - must have been very frustrating for him. 

    One thing I’m noticing, they referred to him as Irish and I noted in a match he was playing against Scotland, they called Northern Ireland “Ireland” on the scoreboard. Was that normal then? How did they distinguish between NI & the Republic? 
    The Republic wore green shirts.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,598
    edited April 2020
    DaveMehmet said:
    se9addick said:
    Just watching it now, brilliant stuff. I didn’t realise how quickly United declined after winning the European Cup, kinda like for Busby & Bobby Charlton it was the ending of an era and some sort of closing of the chapter that began with Munich but Best was just at the start of his career - must have been very frustrating for him. 

    One thing I’m noticing, they referred to him as Irish and I noted in a match he was playing against Scotland, they called Northern Ireland “Ireland” on the scoreboard. Was that normal then? How did they distinguish between NI & the Republic? 
    The Republic wore green shirts.
    I’ll say it, The Republicans worn Balaclavas.
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,135
    A very good film and a very sad one. 

    I watched the BT Sports film ‘Too Good To Go Down’ last week, which also featured Best’s problems and his repeated ‘no shows’. It covers United’s demise after their European Cup win, their eventual relegation and their subsequent revival under Tommy Docherty (until he was sacked for having it away with the club physio’s wife). Wilf McGuiness and Frank O’Failure found it impossible to follow Matt Busby, just as Moyes, Van Gaal and Solskjær have with Ferguson and, indeed, Dowie, Reed, Pardew and Parky found with Curbs. 

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