george best fiver

[(RIP) Proff]

I'd want one of those Joey deserves a £20 or even a £50 note

But Georgie Best !!! NAHHHH stuff that, and I agree with Viscount, the Man was a Scunt, he should never have got that transplant, 2 people died in vain cos of that, the Donor and the Deserving recipitant who missed out

 

[Pipehose]

This wasn't started to provoke a response from you, i was merely expressing my thoughts
Mark.

well then you shouldnt have used mine then

 

[Wonderboy]

well then you shouldnt have used mine then

This still doesn't answer my question as to why you feel the need to make a statement like this-:

at the prices you charge. where you work. we need to get as many pounds as we possible can to pay your wages

I eagerly await your articulate and witty response.

Mark.

 

[Sugarcube]

I eagerly await your articulate and witty response.

Mark.

Mark,

You'll be waiting a long time for something articulate or indeed witty. Stick the kettle on, sit back, put your feet up and wait for some classic retort!

 

[STUBBS]

I eagerly await your articulate and witty response.

.

or he'll get his mate to answer

 

[Fanum]

or he'll get his mate to answer

Which one???

 

[Marks adventure]

What is the point of blocking out the serial numbers in the ebay auction then putting them in the photo.

The sequence starts GB **** 78 to GB **** 87

yeh and the middle is 8844 but shhhhhhhhhhhhh dont tell anyone...

 

[Pipehose]

or he'll get his mate to answer

and which mate would that be then

 

[Decster]

I think George Best was a loser. He may have been the greatest footballer ever...but he lost everything he had in life. If he made a load of money from newspapers by whinging to get them to write stories about him and he got paid, i have no problem with that, he was making some money out of them for a change and fair dues. He only ever made it from The Scum and other red tops.

I do not condone beating women. It is wrong. The man had a disease which it seems to me he fought all his adult life. I think along with every other alcoholic in the world he was a lonley man that could not deal with life. I think alot of Bests ex's made alot of money out of him rightly or wrongly. He made a lot of mistakes. But to call him scumbag wifebeater shows no understanding of what he went through.

The demon drink has been a curse for Ireland and the Irish. It is a fine line between liking to get pished and becoming an alcoholic. Best fell over that line. The crowds from both divides that turned out for his funeral came to respect Best the footballer a son of Northern Ireland who made them feel proud when he graced a football field. There are not many who can do that. Joey is another one.

D.

Joey is to high in my esteem to grace anything as trivial as money.

PS Paul McGrath is another ex Man U player who is an alcoholic. He has just released an autobiography of his life. That may give some understanding to what a person like Best went through. It is so easy to Pidgeon hole people because of what the papers want us to believe.

 

[streaky]

I think George Best was a loser. He may have been the greatest footballer ever...but he lost everything he had in life. If he made a load of money from newspapers by whinging to get them to write stories about him and he got paid, i have no problem with that, he was making some money out of them for a change and fair dues. He only ever made it from The Scum and other red tops.

I do not condone beating women. It is wrong. The man had a disease which it seems to me he fought all his adult life. I think along with every other alcoholic in the world he was a lonley man that could not deal with life. I think alot of Bests ex's made alot of money out of him rightly or wrongly. He made a lot of mistakes. But to call him scumbag wifebeater shows no understanding of what he went through.

The demon drink has been a curse for Ireland and the Irish. It is a fine line between liking to get pished and becoming an alcoholic. Best fell over that line. The crowds from both divides that turned out for his funeral came to respect Best the footballer a son of Northern Ireland who made them feel proud when he graced a football field. There are not many who can do that. Joey is another one.

D.

Joey is to high in my esteem to grace anything as trivial as money.

PS Paul McGrath is another ex Man U player who is an alcoholic. He has just released an autobiography of his life. That may give some understanding to what a person like Best went through. It is so easy to Pidgeon hole people because of what the papers want us to believe.

well said

 

[Davy F]

at the prices you charge. where you work. we need to get as many pounds as we possible can to pay your wages

I'm guessing you don't contribute anything to his wage.......unless you've finally bought a GS.

 

[Pipehose]

I'm guessing you don't contribute anything to his wage.......unless you've finally bought a GS.

i think they sell other models as well as the gs model

 

[streaky]

Some bad replies to this thread,thought more people would have more positive things to say,never thought anybody could dislike the man so much

 

[Davy F]

Y'know, I used to be in the George Best fan club (if that doesn't date me, nothing will ). Back then, he was a God with only Pele to dispute who was the greatest. Yes, he wasn't an angel and I lost a lot of respect for the man. BUT, he had still been a genius on the pitch. That is what is celebrated and that is the Best most people will remember.

Saying that, Ulster folk have gone a bit overboard, but not as bad as the mainlanders did when a certain Princess bit the dust.

 

[Greg Masters]

BUT, he had still been a genius on the pitch. That is what is celebrated and that is the Best most people will remember.

I'm told that he was a genius - but I haven't the slightest interest in football.

I remember him most clearly from chat shows ...



A State Funeral, an airport and now a fiver is perhaps a bit OTT. As far as I'm aware there's no airport named after Churchill and he only got a crown!

By all means we should celebrate our national heros but there are many less flawed than Best. How about:

Joey Dunlop - motorcycle racer
C S Lewis - author
John Watson - Formula 1 World Championship runner-up
Mrs C F Alexander - poetess
John Dunlop - tyremaker
John B. Yeats - artist and writer
Chaim Herzog - bantam-weight boxing champion and President of Israel
Oscar Wilde - wit
Philip Larkin - poet and Sub-Librarian at Queen's University, Belfast
Mary Ann McCracken - social reformer
Thomas Andrews - ship designer

Greg

 

[Doug]

Don't recall one of them scoring in a European cup final

 

[Wizard]

Don't recall Best saving thousands of lives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pantridge

 

[Greg Masters]

Don't recall one of them scoring in a European cup final

I think that Mrs Alexander had a trial for Banbridge.



Greg

 

[Doug]

I was a bit flippant was'nt I.

I just don't understand some of the out and out hatred for a very talented man who lost his way in life due to an addiction. I think the energy some people have put into their disgust of GB could be put to better use somewhere else

 

[Greg Masters]

I was a bit flippant was'nt I.

I just don't understand some of the out and out hatred for a very talented man who lost his way in life due to an addiction.

I don't think that there's much hatred. Best was both gifted and burdened by an awful afliction that brought misery and shortened his life.

All I'm saying is that if Ulster Bank weer short of a face to put on a new fiver, there were other candidates who were, intheir way, equally gifted but without the baggage.

Some would say that James Herriot wrote All Creatures Great and Small - it was actually Mrs Alexander who first wrote those words. Stick her on the fiver!

Greg