Best player your Arl Fella / GrandDa' ever saw ?

[NeoNaoNeo]

Always says Alec Young. But that Bally and Eusebio pushed him close.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

YouTube - George Best- 'The Best Tribute'!

when you watch that, you realise he really was THAT good. i just had a flashback whilst watching it, of the big footy cards (pre panini) that had a rock hard piece of chewy in. the ones we used to skim against the wall, closest takes the lot.

i always said to my arl fella that he was only that good because nobody knew what he was gonna do, "they dont need to, they just let him do it, which is often all they need to do" would be his reply. to me he had pure ability and played off the cuff, it all just happened whenever he got the ball, time seemed to stand still for him, to allow him to do whatever he wanted.
hard to say if it's him,cruyff or maradona that i would pick. i'd go for 1 of the first 2 cos the last one is just a bloated cheat imo.

 

[monty]

Never knew them sorry.
But at least one of them would have said Hibbo.

Bert Trautmann? Whistles and leaves

 

[monty]

I think you're talking great grandad if you're going back to Dixie. T.G. Jones - the Welsh Kaiser - was the toast of the grandad generation by all accounts. Peerless footballing centre back.

Labby modeled himself on T G's playing style Dave

 

[little curly alan ball]

My old man grew up on the same street as Bally so couldn't see past him, but when pressed he would say Best was about as good as they got.

Farnsworth , Bolton , Heat ???
Best could play . No doubt .

 

[little curly alan ball]

My Grandad went to the same school as Dixie, Dixie was a few years ahead of him, he used to tell me he was nothing special back then. He never really had much interest in football tho.

Birkenhead Institute , Goat ???

 

[heatmeiser]

Farnsworth , Bolton , Heat ???
Best could play . No doubt .

Can't remember exactly.

Walkden, Worsley-type area. It might have been his parents house, not sure.

He still played football in the street with his mates, even after the world cup win (so my old man says), but I seem to remember him saying he wouldn't bring his medal out to show them. Probably worried they'd run off with it 'for a laugh'.

 

[Goat]

Birkenhead Institute , Goat ???

Did Dixie go there? No, it was his Primary School. Cavendish or Cathcart, I always get them mixed up, the 1 on Laird Street anyway.

I went to Birkenhead Institute, didnt know Dixie did as well.

 

[monty]

Did Dixie go there? No, it was his Primary School. Cavendish or Cathcart, I always get them mixed up, the 1 on Laird Street anyway.

I went to Birkenhead Institute, didnt know Dixie did as well.

F--- me Institute lads were our bitches LCAB

 

[Goat]

We where nobodys bitches, we ruled stuff us.

 

[monty]

We where nobodys bitches, we ruled stuff us.

Don't make me laugh the Yossers ruled the lot, no argument bitch

 

[Goat]

Different era Monts lid, when I was in School, we where Champs.

 

[monty]

Different era Monts lid, when I was in School, we where Champs.

They must have pulled the old place down, LCAB and myself are relics from a good time, when teachers were mad and the students even madder

 

[Goat]

Yeah its a housing estate BI now.

 

[monty]

Yeah its a housing estate BI now.

Half of Corpo Road and Laird St went there, toughest school Birkenhead ever knew