The nurse lives abroad and police plan to fly her back for a meeting as part of their current investigation. If I had to choose between dribbling past five players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging Miss World, it'd be a hard choice.

In the early 1970s, Best also advertised eggs, under the campaign "E for B and Georgie Best," both in print and on TV, where "E for B" was short for "Eggs for Breakfast. He had a brief resurgence in form with Second Division club Fulham from 1976–78, showing that, although he had lost some of his pace, he retained his skills.Best's son Calum and former teammates, surviving members from the West Brom team which he played against in his debut, all joined the current United squad on the pitch for a minute's silence, during which fans in every seat held aloft pictures of Best, which were given out before the match. When Best played football, salaries were a fraction of what top players earn today, but, with his pop star image and celebrity status, Best still earned a fortune. Despite their poor league form, United managed to reach the semi-finals of the European Cup (they had a relatively easy run in getting past the Republic of Ireland's Waterford United, Belgium's Anderlecht, and Austria's Rapid Wien) where they were knocked out 2–1 on aggregate by A. In 1984, Best received a three-month prison sentence for drunk driving, assaulting a police officer and failing to answer bail. His last game of the season, his knee strapped-up, came on 13 April, and ended in a 2–0 defeat to Partizan Belgrade at Partizan Stadium.

It was as audacious as it was unexpected" - David Meek on the 5-1 hammering of Benfica in 1966 that put George Best into orbit: http://football. I don't want to trivialise what is undoubtedly a serious illness, but 'Alcoholism is a disease as difficult to fight as cancer? He considered his international career as being "recreational football", with the expectations placed on a smaller nation in Northern Ireland being much less than with his club. Liverpool are after Steed Malbranque, with Harry Kewell being packed off to Aston Villa to fund proceedings. United improved slightly under new boss Wilf McGuinness, but still only managed an eighth-place finish in the 1969–70 season.He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came fifth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. You might knock Harry Kewell and his 'stranger than Jason Lee's' coiffure but the Sydney Morning Herald is having none of it.