George Best

摘要

At football grounds in Britain last weekend, players and spectators stood in silence in memory of George Best, a ceremony once reserved to honour the war dead. Mr Best last played top-class football more than 30 years ago, when most of today's spectators would have been too young to see him play. However, if anyone doubted his divinity, they were reassured by veteran reporters whose memories of him have remained impressively vivid. "I can still see him now," wrote one, "slim, boyish, dark hair shining in the floodlights as he scythed though the defence... It was sheer poetry. I can remember leaping to my feet against all the etiquette of the press box, so stunning was the fluid scoring movement."