Tributes for George Best

lovablemum · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 4068 Location: Northants

Tributes to George Best
"He was a fantastic player. Everybody at United regarded George as being one of the greatest of all time. It's very sad because he was a wonderful person, who was very likeable."
Current Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

"He was on a par, at least, with anyone you can name. We at Manchester United have learned from our experience with Eric Cantona, we had to treat him differently, make allowances. If, instead of being hostile to George, which I was, we had leaned a bit his way and tried to help him, who knows?"
Former Manchester United team-mate Sir Bobby Charlton

"From 1964 to 1969 he was the best player in the country. It's sad as hell but I don't think we saw the best of him. He went on the blink at a time when he could have got even better. He was not only a fantastic player, to me he was also a fantastic bloke."
Former Manchester United team-mate Denis Law

"The world football has lost a great. Personally, I've lost a great old friend. I feel sorry for his family. At a moment like this we can remember how important this man was for the British and world football. He was fabulous."
Eusebio

"You could have put George in just about any position in our 1968 team and he would have been better than the person who was playing there."
Manchester United European Cup-winning team-mate David Sadler

"I know there is a lot of publicity surrounding the reason why he was ill but us football people, who know what he was about and were lucky enough to have seen him play, know a little bit more."
Charlton manager Alan Curbishley

"He was the best player in the world. He was a complete player. There's not many of them about in the world or ever has been. He was a fantastic man. He was very kind, very generous. There was no big- headedness about him."
Former team-mate Sammy McIlroy

"The first real footballing superstar and arguably the best player these isles have even seen."
Former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland player Mark Lawrenson

"I remember my first pair of boots when I was four years of age was a George Best pair of boots. I used to go out and play with the locals and think I was George Best, trying to take on everyone, beat everyone."
Former Republic of Ireland and Liverpool player Ray Houghton

"When you speak to people in Manchester, when they talk of the great players - and in my era it was Beckenbauer, Pele, Cruyff - then George Best always seems to come into the equation."
Birmingham manager Steve Bruce

"He is a true legend. He was a genius and all the great words you can think of apply to George."
Former England defender Terry Butcher

"The images of George in hospital were really upsetting but I'd like to keep the image of him in the red shirt of Manchester United when he was arguably the best player in the world."
Blackburn manager Mark Hughes

"He was everybody's hero, all the kids in the street wanted to be George Best. He could do anything with a ball, and he'll be sorely missed in Northern Ireland."
Former Northern Ireland team-mate Gerry Armstrong

"If he was to play on pitches like they do now, he'd be almost untouchable."
Former Manchester United midfielder Ray Wilkins

~~debbydo~~ · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 19980 Location: Hertfordshire

I think he was great ..

lovablemum · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 4068 Location: Northants

Did you know he was buried with a ring on. He proposed to his girlfriend Ros on his death bed.

~~debbydo~~ · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 19980 Location: Hertfordshire

Nope didnt know that ..

lovablemum · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 4068 Location: Northants

Was in the paper today.

Mullin · Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 20062 Location: Ivybridge

Awww that is sad!! :-(