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1. Our George/Memories of George Best ...
(Players)
Our George: Family Memoir of George Best by Barbara Best with Lindy McDowell Sidgwick & Jackson, £18.99 Reviewed by Joyce Woolridge From WSC 255 May 2008  Buy this book             Memories of ...
Created on 17 January 2008
2. When George Came To Edinburgh ...
(Players)
George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro Birlinn, £9.99 Reviewed by Graham McColl From WSC 289 March 2011 Buy this book   Scottish club football began the 1970s in the cigar-toting strata of ...
Created on 21 April 2010
3. The best player of his generation?
(Films)
Errol Lawrence follows closely the movements of Zizou for 90 minutes, with the aid of 17 cameras In 1970, a German film-maker named Hellmuth Costard pointed six 16mm cameras at George Best as he played ...
Created on 14 November 2006
4. Best foot forward
(Editorials)
... proliferation of dire songs, documentaries of wildly varying quality and St George cross products choking supermarket aisles – just shows that football has become an easily exploitable cultural product. ...
Created on 14 July 2006
5. Best of both worlds
(Players)
... fans drawn by the brilliant impudence of his play and darkly handsome Celtic allure. When George Best first began to dazzle on Manchester United’s left wing, contemporaries cast around for the former ...
Created on 14 January 2006
6. Best kept quiet?
(Players)
Jon Spurling wonders whether applause is an appropriate replacement for the minutes silence. Just as views on the responsibility for George Best’s early death are polarised, the same is true of attitudes ...
Created on 14 January 2006
7. Sack George Burley? ...
(Managers)
... on, variously, bad luck, in­juries, too many foreign players and rum­ours of player unrest. However, there is another cause: George Burley. Last year’s manager of the season has had a torturous ten months. ...
Created on 14 July 2002
8. George the fourth ...
(Players)
Joyce Woolridge wades through yet another book allegedly written by George Best and finds it more honest than the previous ones, but no less depressing Blessed is George Best’s fourth autobiography. He ...
Created on 14 January 2002
9. Best and worst commentators
(Season reviews)
... Munro Best AIan Green. Obviously. Worst Jonathan Pearce, for completely misjudging the mood of the nation (well, the mood of the Royal George on Charing Cross Road) with his commentary on Luxembourg v ...
Created on 14 July 1999
10. Non-League stadiums offer vision of football's future as well as past
(Stories)
... enclosure. At Worcester City’s St George’s Lane, you would find woven into the local landscape a venue still basking in the glow of the club’s famous FA Cup win against Liverpool in 1959, while anyone ...
Created on 05 November 2018
11. State Of Play: Under the skin of the modern game by Michael Calvin
(General)
... the role of the tabloids when laying the blame for the downfalls of George Best and Paul Gascoigne squarely at football’s door. Where Hopcraft was an observer who commentated on the state of the game, ...
Created on 25 October 2018
12. Green Shoots: Irish football histories by Michael Walker
(General)
...  Walker is to be commended for what he omits. The epilogue is about George Best although he is mainly a background character in the text, while the popular “where did it all go wrong, George” anecdote ...
Created on 28 February 2018
13. From the archive ~ Mark E Smith interview: So you call yourself a football fan?
(Stories)
... started winning every game and in three seasons they were up near the top of the Second. Who was the first player you met? Funnily enough, I met George Best a few times – first was in some drinking club ...
Created on 25 January 2018
14. Dalglish & Rush, Summerbee & Lee, Warboys & Bannister – where have the great duos gone?
(Stories)
... instance, are the managerial double acts, the John Sillett and George Curtises, the Alan Curbishley and Steve Gritts? Perhaps the dictator gets more done, but he rules unchecked by a compassionate alter-ego. ...
Created on 21 December 2017
15. What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley
(General)
... to differ. And, referring to Zinedine Zidane’s dismissal at the end of the 2006 World Cup final, he writes: “Heroism always leads to self-destruction and ruination.” Yet for every Diego Maradona and George ...
Created on 20 December 2017
16. "And Smith must score" – the worst misses are the ones that truly mattered
(Stories)
... do it all the time. With the score still 0-0 in Belgrade in a European Cup tie in 1966, a cross from George Best found Denis Law two yards out against Partizan. The great Denis, scorer of 28 goals in Europe ...
Created on 20 November 2017
17. Johnny Haynes: Portrait of a football genius by James Gardner
(Players)
... Wright and Bobby Moore eras and who might very well have been in the World Cup-winning team with his clubmate George Cohen, had injury not intervened, this leaves a sad aftertaste. But the essence of the ...
Created on 11 October 2017
18. From the archive ~ It’s time to admit football scenes in movies don’t work
(Stories)
... a more telling brand of social critique. Best, His Mother’s Son was the controversial TV piece that mined George Best’s relationship with his alcoholic mother. An Audience With Shankly was drawing huge ...
Created on 18 September 2017
19. From the archive ~ How Liam Brady’s drop of the shoulder changed Arsenal
(Stories)
... Then George Graham intervened and our man had to go to the knackers yard (otherwise known as Upton Park). Liam’s hero status was confirmed when we heard of his exploits from the Irish Press. “Liam Brady ...
Created on 20 March 2017
20. Purple patch: The non-League Liverpool club looking to unite the city
(Stories)
... to 2009 when Liverpool FC were under the worrisome stewardship of Tom Hicks and George Gillett. At the time, a new non-League club, AFC Liverpool, were created as an alternative to Anfield, marketing themselves ...
Created on 19 January 2017

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