George Best
George Best
Healy heads bid for Best statue
NORTHERN Ireland international David Healy is to head a memorial trust for George Best.
Ulster Bank notes Best way to remember football hero
FOOTBALL legend and former Hibs star George Best is to be immortalised on a million commemorative £5 bank notes.
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'George Best Airport' splits city
BELFAST City Airport is to be renamed George Best Airport, it was announced yesterday, a decision that has divided the city.
Best's funeral to be held at Stormont
GEORGE Best will be buried in his home town of Belfast on Saturday after a funeral service at Stormont, home to Northern Ireland's parliament buildings.
Tens of thousands to see off Best at Stormont funeral
FOOTBALL legend George Best's funeral will be held at Stormont to allow tens of thousands of fans to pay their final respects.
George Best
George Best, Footballer
Trapped in an old familiar act, just like Sinatra
WHEN George Best did theatre appearances in the early 1990s, the evening would open with film clips. The first was taken from the FA Cup tie in 1970, when Best - back after a long suspension - scored six goals for Manchester United against Northampton. "Imagine what he might have done if he'd been match fit," the commentator observed.
Best's time at Hibs a heady cocktail of scandal and skill
IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times as the most aptly named of footballer of his or any other generation arrived at Easter Road in 1979 and briefly illuminated not just the twilight of the Turnbull era as Hibs tumbled towards relegation that season, but also Scottish football for a brief shining moment.
Shared experience of celebrity brings with it new way of dying
DEATH and celebrity are no strangers. Yet the passing of George Best seems to open a strange new chapter in the British way of dying.
George Best in pictures
Best proudly displays his new Hibs scarf on signing for the team in 1979. Picture: Stan Warburton
Hibee legends recall Best of times at club
GEORGE Best's career as a Hibs player may have been short-lived - but his time at Easter Road was as colourful as the rest of his life.
Boy oh Boy, Georgie brought Hibs a legion of new fans with sublime skills
WHEREVER George Best went he was the focus of attention, here are a selection of quotes from match reports compiled by the Evening News football writers of the day.
Best coming to the end of his life
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Best's plea: Don't let drink wreck your life
GEORGE Best releases a photograph showing the shocking extent of his suffering as the man dubbed Britain's greatest-ever footballer was yesterday described as being in a "dangerous" condition and struggling to survive on a life support machine.
Best making steady progress
THE former Manchester United star George Best, 59, was continuing to make "slow, steady" progress in hospital last night.
Football legend Best to make full recovery
GEORGE Best's doctors have said they are hopeful the football legend will make a full recovery after they revealed he was sitting up out of his hospital bed yesterday.
Best recovery 'has long way to go'
GEORGE BEST's recovery from life-threatening illness still has a long way to go, his physician has warned.
Medics happy as Best grips agent's hand
THE former football star George Best is starting to wake up and doctors are "very pleased with him", his agent said yesterday.
Best 'very ill' but shows signs of improvement
FORMER Manchester United star George Best was "continuing to make slow but steady improvement", a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
Growing up in Manchester, something about Best was never right
EVERY newspaper office has what we in the trade cruelly label "the dead box". This is the electronic archive of obituaries, written in advance, stored in order of subject's likely longevity - or not - and ready for instant use on the fateful day.
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