The career of George Best, soccer’s first playboy superstar, epitomizes all the contradictions of the 1960s. From glorious and creative free expression to dissolution, Best was a poster child for all the good and the bad that decade came to represent. Born soon after the end of World War Two into a Protestant working-class family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. George Best soon showed a remarkable talent for soccer. Although academically smart, his only true passion was for the ball at …
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