Isaw Joeshaw
Old School Blade
- Joined
- May 17, 2017
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George Best!!
In 1964 I went to watch the FA Cup semi final at Hillsborough between Man Utd and West Ham in a crowd of around 65,000 . The programme stated that on the left wing for the former would be a player by the name of Best,
someone I’d never heard of .
It transpired that he was a scrawny kid of only 17 or just 18 years old and I remember turning to my mate and saying “ How the fuck can a club like Man U play a kid like him in an FA cup semi final ? “
I seem to remember it was after about 20 minutes when I got the answer to that when he received the ball out on the left , cut inside shimmying past two or three players as if they weren’t there then clipped a beautiful ball which left the goalkeeper for dead but unfortunately came off the bar .
Because of his relatively short lived career and sad decline , I can’t rate him as the best I’ve ever seen but for producing moments of pure magic on a football field he has few if any equals imo .