For the footie fans.....

Please spare a thought (and a prayer if you're that way inclined) for the greatest player to ever grace a football pitch.

Legend Best fighting for his life


Football legend George Best's condition has deteriorated and he is fighting for his life, his consultant has confirmed.


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4380472.stm

why should we spare any sympathy for a man who drank himself to liver failure, got a liver transplant, started drinking months after his transplant, and drank himself to liver failure again?

just curious…

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
Please spare a thought for the greatest player to ever grace a football pitch.

Soccer *would* be more interesting if they had a pitcher.

Donnie, you're out of your element…

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Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
Please spare a thought for the greatest player to ever grace a football pitch.

Soccer *would* be more interesting if they had a pitcher.

Originally posted by brennser:
why should we spare any sympathy for a man who drank himself to liver failure, got a liver transplant, started drinking months after his transplant, and drank himself to liver failure again?

just curious…

If you don't have the heart to, then don't bother. I was only asking.

Let's be honest, who here hasn't tried to drink themselves to liver failure?

Originally posted by brennser:
why should we spare any sympathy for a man who drank himself to liver failure, got a liver transplant, started drinking months after his transplant, and drank himself to liver failure again?

just curious…

I was only asking too Mankie!!! Its not a question of me not wanting to spare sympathy for Best. I too grew up watching repeats of the unbelievable things he did on a footy pitch. But lets be honest here……the man consciously drank himself to death despite 30+ years of warnings, pleading and threats from those close to him and medical professionals…..

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:

Originally posted by brennser:
why should we spare any sympathy for a man who drank himself to liver failure, got a liver transplant, started drinking months after his transplant, and drank himself to liver failure again?

just curious…

If you don't have the heart to, then don't bother. I was only asking.

Originally posted by brennser:
the man consciously drank himself to death despite 30+ years of warnings, pleading and threats from those close to him and medical professionals…..

I am guessing he probably wasnt drinking just to have a good time

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
I am guessing he probably wasnt drinking just to have a good time

Good point. Sometimes, after a long day of pitching soccer balls around while wearing footie pajamas, you need something to dull the pain to the rotator cuff.

I am not one to show sympathy to drunks/junkies because I just don't get addiction. George even watched his mother drink herself to death, which makes it even more difficult to understand how he got to this point.

As a kid I remember watching him work his magic on the field, and to this day, my most treasured present left under the christmas tree was a Manchester United kit with the number 7 on the back when I was 8 years old.

I simply admire the man because of what he did on the field, I feel pity for him for what he did off it.

Originally posted by econo:
Let's be honest, who here hasn't tried to drink themselves to liver failure?

no way, i always go for kidney failure

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
no way, i always go for kidney failure

Econo and I have long tried to acheive venerial diseases (with other people, of course). He wants the syph, I'm a clap man, myself.

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
I'm a clap man, myself.

you wouldn't clap if you had it

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
you wouldn't clap if you had it

Oh, I'd clap my hands, maybe even say "yeah!" If you're going to die from something, it might as well be from something acquired by sleeping with alot of women, eh?

Penicillin?

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:Oh, I'd clap my hands, maybe even say "yeah!" If you're going to die from something, it might as well be from something acquired by sleeping with alot of women, eh?

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
no way, i always go for kidney failure

Econo and I have long tried to acheive venerial diseases (with other people, of course). He wants the syph, I'm a clap man, myself.

through alcohol?

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
through alcohol?

I cannot speak for Econo, but yes, my efforts to get the clap often involve alcohol…

Originally posted by econo:
Penicillin?

Why would we go to all that trouble getting STDs just to get rid of them? Sort of like getting a tattoo just so we can have lazer surgery to remove our tattoo.

Thrill of the hunt.

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
I simply admire the man because of what he did on the field, I feel pity for him for what he did off it.

What he did in his personal life and the demons he was facing are of little consequence to me.

He was an amazing footballer, and while we didn't get to see much of his play in America, my United DVD collection and the numbers of books I've read show and describe him as one of the best - mostly by his peers, and that says a lot. I too feel saddened, Mank.