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GEORGE BEST DOWN UNDER IBD

FAIR PLAY PUBLISHING
03 / 2024
9781925914979
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Sinopsis

George Best is widelyáregarded as aábrilliant footballer - one of the best in the world - with a troubled life.A European Cup and Ballon dâÇÖOr winner with Manchester United, the Northern Ireland internationaláhad all the skills and panache to be at theátop of the game.áGeorge Best visitedáfour times between 1967 and 1990,áthe first time with Manchester United ahead of their European Cup win as the biggest football star in the universe, the last time as a supernova.áAs early as BestâÇÖs second visit in 1983, journalist Andrew Dettre wrote that BestâÇÖs visit to Australia 'must surely...be considered rock bottom' for a man of his talents.áLucas Gillard, in collaboration with Jason Goldsmith, has built on sections fromátheir first bookáBe My Guest - Football Superstars in Australiaáto produce this myopic of George BestâÇÖs tours down under.áDespite the popular view that BestâÇÖs tours down under were all about drinking and women, Gillard and Goldsmith go behind-the-scenes to talk with people who knew him, who played with him, and who knew there was much more nuance, complexity, and back story to the man than the archetypal celebrity footballer the mediaápreferred to present.

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