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  • Published: 12 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781473500747
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 15 hr 28 min
  • Narrator: John Telfer
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Immortal





George Best is considered the greatest footballer of our time.

George Best is considered the greatest footballer of our time.

No other imposed himself so completely on to the romantic imagination. No other was so emblematic of the era during which he flourished. And no other will ever be as memorable as George Best.

On the field Best's skills were sublime and almost other-worldly. Off it, he had a magnetic appeal. He was treated like a pop icon and a pin-up; a fashion-model and a sex-symbol. Every man envied him and every woman adored him.

To mark the 50th anniversary of his debut for Manchester United, Duncan Hamilton examines Best's crowded life and premature death. But most importantly, Hamilton presents Best at his glorious peak - the precocious goals, the labyrinthine runs, the poise and balletic balance and the body swerves.

This is George Best: footballing immortal.

  • Published: 12 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781473500747
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 15 hr 28 min
  • Narrator: John Telfer
Categories:

About the author

Duncan Hamilton

Duncan Hamilton is deputy editor of the Yorkshire Post. He is the author of Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for 2007. In 2009, he was awarded the William Hill, again, for Harold Larwood, as well as winning the prestigious Wisden Book of the Year for 2009 and biography of the year at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards. He lives in West Yorkshire.

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