George Best vs Manchester City | First Division 71/72 | Highlights
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- čas přidán 22. 10. 2020
- Despite not playing very well on that day George Best produces 2 assists in an away derby against Manchester City.
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I was at that game. I went through the wrong turn style and ended up among the City supporters, standing there in my red and white scarf. I guess they thought I wasn't a full shilling, and just laughed as I shouted for the Reds. I got bumped against a wall after I came out of the ground though, by about 30 Blues, but no damage done. Happy days.
I had a similar experience back in prob 1975, but in another country, another sport. Was the only One wearing yellow and black on the blue-red-yellow stand. They kept pulling my hat down over my eyes until I got fed up and left. More humourous, those days!
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Best had great vision and was extremely creative with his passing. He's generally thought of as a dribbler but that was more when he was a raw and very talented kid. Best the man was a playmaker more than a dribbler.
Thanks for this footage, so much of George and his unique talent went uncaptured.
The irony of Francis Lee complaining about someone diving...!
His touch wasn’t quite there even at this point in his career.....lack of training and out on the town drinking takes it’s toll. A lack of sharpness in his game.....From 65 to 70 he was phenomenal, blessed to see him play live many times.
Very true. His peak is over - even by this time. But what a player he was! Two footed. Sublime balance. Fast. Superb touch, strike and pass. Best player ever saw.
Tony marshal, i was thincking that myself tony about best. He just seemend to be going through the motions, wich is a sign your not interested or you havent got the skill you had maybe a year ago. And here with best a thinck its a bit of both! I have never saw best give away so many bad passes and struggle to beat a player as in this game! Yes the the late night drincking and partys are clearly catching up with best, as its so obvious here. And he was still only age 25 here. What a waste. But what a player. He was the greatest player in the world from 1965 to 1971 easy! But it should have been from 1965 to 1981. There was so much more to give and we didnt get it all. And neither did george. Rip george
@@alanmctavish4802 My best mate Gary Locke of Chelsea played against Best , I was there to see it at Stamford Bridge...George was 26 and Gary 19 playing right back, he was marking George directly.....He told me after the game that George has lost that explosive yard of pace and is now much easier to play against.
@@tonymarshall4164there's another video of mainly 66-68 and you can just tell he's lost that yard. Doesn't carry the ball as much, looks up for the pass more instead. Crazy that he's only 25 here considering that
Dont get him angry Francis .You wont like George when hes angry !!...Great footage !..As a Liverpool fan ...I still remember and loved the era when football was hard and the pitches were sand dunes and mole hills . For some strange reason .This didnt have any effect on George Best .. God given talent ...R.I.P. ...Legend .
well said Kelvin, Man U fan here - its always nice to see the mutual respect between our clubs and I love many of your past and present and probably future players 🙂
Best distribution was really excellent!!!!!....his passes were superb!!!!..
Always love the way the defender holds his shirt to keep him off the ball and it leaves it wide open for Mcilroy to latch onto it.
Great footage. Thanks for sharing! George Best and Sammy McIlroy ⚽️🔥 Proud to be from Northern Ireland
The Irish have been blessed with talent
Thanks for the video!
Hoje em dia faltam pontas como Garrincha e Best!que estejam em bom lugar,n nossa memoriavforever!!🎉
Don’t think franny can lecture anyone on diving 😝
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Lee won pen!!🤣👹
Best - why I watched football. Francis Lee - why I stopped watching football.
Ooofft
Fran collins, franny lee just about dived in every game he played in. But tbh he was actually great at it, he was just a little cheating rat. I never rated him never, he was to easy to read, i would just take the ball of him so easy, thats why he had to dive so much. He was the best diver in the box i have ever seen. He would time his dive when some daft clown defender was stupid enough to slide in wich you dont do, so lee would dive at the perfect time and win a penalty becouse he would wait till the other player had slid in and then made contact with lee who would then do his perfect dive and have the cheek to roll around in agony to waist time. He did exactly that to man utd exactly a year before this game in the leauge cup in the last 2 minutes and at the end of the match wich city won becouse lee got a late penalty. George in total disgust and in a pure rage with the referee and lee then punshend the ball in anger out of referee jack taylors hands and george was suspended for 8 weeks for that. Then came back in brilliant style in febuary 1970 and scored six great goals his sixth goal is the best one as he dummys the keeper then walks it into the net. Those goals used to get shown alot when george was on a tv show! You can see a big difference in his play from then and this game here and its only a year apart? Really sad how quick he lost that magic touch, but so great to have seen him at his best! What a player! Goat
Georgie and Sammy Mac the Belfast reds👍
A player both Pele and Maradona admired thats speaks volumes to how special George was, and of all places he came from Nothern Ireland and even as an Irish person i find that kind of crazy 😂. RIP George Best one of a kind
Not George's best game by a long chalk. His peak is over - even by this time. But what a player he was! Two footed. Sublime balance. Fast. Superb touch, strike and pass. Best player I ever saw. Indeed, his like is never to be seen again.
damn he was that good huh, makes me think there is still cam recorded unreleased footage out there, mustve been a priveledge to see him play, i can only imagine. like messi today
@@ps123fan Very true; though George was two-footed unlike the great Messi - and he could head really well too.
@@ps123fan Messi is nowhere near George Best.... Messi is good, I'll grant you.
But his all-round game has never been at the same level as George's was.
And Messi is nowhere near his compatriot: Maradona. He was a footballer.
You are confusing eras in the game: When Footballers played Football... with those that think they are fashion icons.
@@patagualianmostly7437 Messi is objectively leaps and bounds ahead of George best. i have no idea why people even think best can be considered better. All the science, biology, stats and footage show Messi has done things consistently that no other player has done.
@@lukeswallow1075 what stats?
He was already past his peak here
The number are there to show.
All the star players now, at their young we've seen them the more they get older the more they played great football and majority of them
Great video... thanks for sharing... more George Best please 🙏😁
If I'll find his games that aren't already covered on CZcams, I'll certainly make one.
@@HarmsFootball Good man 👍
George Best You are a Fantastic Football player You are the Best George Best Good bye the Belfast boy World legend Maradona Cruyff Pele George Best is the Best
went to this rhyl to mcr .rhyl station awash with reds...boot boys tartan and cans of tartan..my first game without the old man and uncles...awesome day
Perfect by Best two bits of class produced two goals...easy to slate but impossible to replicate
EVEN ON A BAD DAY HE IS WORTH BEING LOOKED AT
Fantastic pisstake of Francis 'Tom Daley' Lee by George.
And this was a bad day for him?
Damn he was fantastic
In the first half he was losing almost all of his duels & generally was more passive than you expect of him. I wouldn’t be too surprised to find out that he was hangover to be honest.
@@HarmsFootball pls upload more of him
@@HarmsFootball Was thinking the very same thing;0)
King of diving is accusing George Best of diving!!!!!
Best the ten tens fifas players in históry futebol !! Genial driblings Mutant player forever !! Geord Best in memórian! 😢👍👍👏👏
As a Utd fan Fannie Lee was a class act.!!!
Fanny Lee showing us what a good diver he was
Que excelente jugador fue Best, pero en el minuto 8:30 mal saque de banda de Best jaja , se nota que entra a la cancha a divertirse pero no toma mucha importancia los detalles de juego, el futbol callejero contra el futbol de academia
Tavy@ i had to laugh when man utd got a free kick and charlton put the ball down to take it then best came up and passesd it wide to morgan as if to say ffs bobby hurry up and use your eyes and brain. That was a sign of bobby getting old. Best didnt need to thinck to even take that free kick as quick as that. Rip george
The irony is Franny lee accusing someone of diving
5:33 "Dive by Best" - he was kicked to the floor :D
When George could have been at the height of his game he was a pale shadow here
he only made 2 goals
Ahhhhh..the hero's..the crowd.....no VAR.
"Can we all play the game as, without review..and more replay's"lol
Franny Lee dive was epic haha
Years of practice! Makes perfect, doncha know?
George don't moan he just scores goals.
Kidd's celebration to his own goal reminds me of how Fergie used to celebrate his team's goals
yeah...and then Kidd went on to be a traitor! How long was he at Man City? Shocking! (Only Kidding, Brian, thank you!)
Ha love the way franny simulates, lol
I can see a big deferences between the old players and current players.
The old players are so physic, staminal, aggressive, technique, current players. Is age matters ?
The Google translator does not seem to have been working. Could you try to say that again, but in coherent English this time ?
Not one of Best better display's. He seemed slightly sluggish in this game. Some nice inspired passes here & there, showing his superb ambidextrous technique.
Who do you think is the best African player of all time?
@@fc-ff5vy Eusébio followed by George Weah
@@johnpacino007 For me its eto"oo and weah. Eusebio is Portuguese. Don't you think today's strikers are one dimensional poachers? 90s strikers was a different breed.
@@fc-ff5vy Eusébio was born in Mozambique, Africa. He played for Portugal, but he's not Portuguese.
That would be like saying, that because the Argentinian Di Stéfano played for Spain. He's Spanish!
@@johnpacino007 Sam E'too bro. Zidane is Algerian, George Weah, Yaya Toure, Eusebio, Mario Coluna, Jay Jay Okocha, Roger Milla, Abedi Pele, Patrick Vieira, Sadio Mane, Nwanko Kanu..if European nation's academies didn't vacuum away African and South American talent, those nations would be far stronger.
Lee one pen looks like Donny(the invisible mans) Van der Bleaks dad😉
lol Watching this. Today most of these players would have been sent off.
The greatest ever Dutch player it's a shame they never won the world cup playing total football
? Best was an Ulsterman
@@JJ-xi5or
He was from Norn Iron. Doesn't Ulster incorporate 3 wee counties from the South ?
I think it was called First Division, not First League
2.00 Lee, who actually invented diving before it was even an Olympic sport lol. He might even have been right actually but I didn't see a replay and didn't bother rewinding back cos even if he was right, he would always be wrong about diving lol. Especially City fans know this
8;38 first siuu celebration invented🤣🤣
Georgie Boy must have been on the tiles for this one, quite poor
Tavy@ when best makes a bad pass its not a bad pass its the worse kind i have seen. Even schook boys dont make bad passes like best did here. It was almost as if he was being paid to do give the ball to a man city player it was that bad. He must not look up or maybe he thincks hes to good to look up. But it is true he struggled like hell against the arsenals, leeds, liverpool, everton, chelsea, man city, he never had a good game against leeds or liverpool, the players just took the ball of him so easy. And when he got the ball he had to pass it quick or lose it. This game here is the start of hes down fall. In the first half a thought he was drunck. But he only got a bit better in the second half. Not that much. He couldnt create anything by this time or beat players and keep posetion. His body couldnt do what his brain was telling him. So he would take to long with the ball becouse he didnt know what to do and would end up losing it. And yes drinck played a big part in it. When a player like best loses that extra yard it makes a huge difference. A huge difference! R.i.p george and thancks
You are a joke. You know NOTHING about football. EVERYTHING you said above has no foundation or truth or fact. Idiot.
Bad spelling
The fact of the matter was Franny Lee was too fat and too slow to
keep up with George Best
Lee should have been sent off
for his verbal outburst.
He just keeps losing the ball lol
had he been drinking before playing this game?
wow....highlights ....and u don't show MC goal in 2nd half
It's highlights of George Best's performance, not of the game.
Not very diverse back in the day.
Best was slow
stop chopping up the videos
Nothing special. Too much overhyped. And some block-headeds dare to compare him with Pele and Maradona. Lol.
You are aware that Best was nowhere near his top form in this game, right? At his peak he was absolutely up there with those two. Go watch Best's greatest games, the evidence is there.
Football is not for you pal!🙄👹
Most overhyped footballer ever.
silly man.
Football is not for you!🙄👹
No way ..what was doing? The ball is glued to his foot
How long have you been watching
Don't be ridiculous