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George Best documentary

Red Wimp

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If you can get BT Sport documentary saw a good doc on George Best. For me it was nice it concentrated on the football and finished with winning the European Cup in 1968 as his off field problems have been done many times. Lots of grainy black & white footage I haven’t seen before.
Thing that struck me watching Best running with the ball, and wondering how he would fare today, was how bad the pitches were not exactly conducive to his style of play, and of course how defenders were allowed to ‘tackle’. One European game they were kicking lumps out of him and without yellow cards don’t know if anyone even got booked, didn’t appear so.
One for a certain poster on here, showed a clip of Sir Matt congratulating Joe Mercer on City winning the league, and Joe in turn saying he hoped Utd won the European Cup in the upcoming final.