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 Danny van Strien Holland Europe
That first game at Easter Road v Partick Thistle - all the women in my office (who had no interest in football !) came along with us !. I couldn't believe the crowd when we got to the top of the terracing, the place was jam-packed !. I don't give a **** about all the 'He was past his best' talk - he was still head & shoulders above anyone else and it was an honour to see him !
Yes he was well past his prime when Hibernian signed him, but Hibs should feel privileged and honoured such a legendary player like George Best donned the famous green and White shirt, and will forever be associated into their history.
Best player in world ever playing for worlds greatest club..... Wish we'd gotten him 10 years earlier...... Still a class act though and what a personality..... Jackie M....... What a player he was.
I've a wee tiny memory of being on my auld man's shoulders going inbetween the cow shed & the stand to see George play for us that's all a remember a think it was partick 🇳🇬
George Best You are a Fantastic Football player you are the best George Best Good bye The Belfast Boy word Legend Maradona Pele Cruyff George Best is the Best
I was at those games when George played for us, he was a true master, I went to one of the midweek games with my dad and we were on the top bing and to see how his football brain worked was truly amazing, it was like he was three moves ahead of everyone else on the park, and that was when he was at the end of his career a true genius !
I came to Australia 1967, and was a Hearts supporter, but I worked with Jimmy O Rourke and remember Joe Baker who I think was killed in Italy, do you know how Willie Bauld died at only 49?, thanks BILL
I think I saw every one of his games for Hibs. Still can't believe all these years later that one of the greatest players of all time played for my beloved club.
THE greatest player of all time Johnny. Forget stats. Think charisma and glamour and beautiful football. THE greatest and remember he was over a decade past his amazing best.
Depends on what you mean by well Jason. Was he the best player on the pitch? Easily. Was he remotely close to what he had been from 1966 to 1969? Nowhere close but then only a handful of players in history have played nearly as well as he did in those three years.
Hibs fans still fondly recall the handful of decent games Best played for them when he was overweight, slow, probably hungover and a decade past his best. The Old Trafford regulars who saw him every other week in his scintillating early 20s have no idea how lucky they were..
See if you get the chance to read the book about the time George played for hibs by John Neil " when George came to Edinburgh " there are some great stories in it from people who met him e g john the taxi driver, Arthur Montfort scotsport, gingling geordies pub, how he helped the reserves. Really worthwhile read and I think you can get some of it on the net. It showed George as a decent down to earth person.
I remember going to Easter Road one freezing midweek night to watch George Best, he hardly ran, he was a bit overweight but was still the best player on the park by a mile.
Old timer....The game that stuck in my mind was a midweek game at Easter Road against Dundee and George Best was fantastic, I could not believe what I was seeing, he was a class act. I wonder if this was the same game you remember. I watched Turnbulls tornados and european games against leeds, Liverpool, and Juventus but I never saw anything that matched George Bests performance that night. Billy Bremner came very close to matching it when he played at Easter Road in 1973, but George was more silky and skillful, Billy was more guts and passion even though he did do keepie uppies on his own goal line while being pressured by Hibs forwards!
johnsparky2 I honestly can't remember, i remember watching the game and everything went through him and as the old saying goes, you can tell the quality of a player by the amount of time he seems to have on the ball, he was always in space , never under pressure ( even though he spent the whole game, or so it seemed, just covering about thirty yards either side of the half way line and sprayed the ball around better than anyone I have ever seen. On the odd occasion anyone got near him he could still beat them easily with the drop of a shoulder then ping a thirty yard pass right into someone's stride, pure class is an understatement of his ability, I wish I had seen him in his pomp, I doubt there has been many better.
Having George Best once on the books at Hibs, surely makes that club legendary. I mean, we (Rangers) had Gascoigne . But as we all know, Besty was the original genius who people like Gascoigne idolised.
Every now and then ( meaning every few decades, even centuries)… society is honoured by a talented genius in their midst and G Best was such an example for the world of football.
a love hibs n best..we were both glensman growing up...allegedly billy bingham was going to take him to spain in 82 just so george could have said he played in world cup
Nah , Cruyff, Maradona , Zidane , Zico all better , he stopped playing top level at 27 then he was at Hibs, Bournemouth, Fulham, superb at united in the 60s then downhill after, all the greats finished at the top
Saw him make his debut at St Mirren in November 1979 after the Clydebank v Arbroath game was postponed got the programme autographed a few years later when he guested for Arbroath Victoria in their centenary game
I lived in Leith when George was playing for Hibs,so I went to Easter Road to see him one Saturday afternoon.Before the teams came out there was an announcment over the PA stating that Mr.Best would not be turning out for Hibs that afternoon,,I would say a good few thousand folks were peed off that day.He would be the best ever palyer I came close to seeing.
I persuaded my girlfriend that she should go with me to Easter Road to see the great George Best playing for Hibs. She was not at all pleased when it was announced that George would not be playing that day. 😡. I did see him play a few times for Hibs, his performance on a Tuesday night game against Dundee at Easter Road was fantastic.😃
Truth Seeker. I went along to Easter Road on a Tuesday night in March 1980 to watch Hibs play Dundee, the added bonus was that George Best was playing for Hibs. Hibs won the match 2-0, Best scored one goal and made the other and he ran the show. Jack Adams match report the following day in the newspaper included the following phrases, "George Best stamped his own special magic on this game", "Best slit open the Dundee defence with a 40 yard pass which the other 21 players couldn't even imagine possible", "George Best turned this soccer wake into a memory that the fans will cherish for many years" I watched the great Leeds and Liverpool teams of the early 1970's play Hibs and the great Celtic teams under Jock Stein and none of their players came close to the talent that an ageing unfit George Best showed for 90 mins that night under the floodlights at Easter Road.
I hugely find Old football are better than today when players play for pride , dignity and to ensure football values , i mean , surely there is some players nowadays who compete for their clubs because they love them but half only think about money and economic benefits more than the team itself . and that's sad how things have turned around that way :/
His first game was away against St Mirren at Love Street I witnessed over 23,000 sell out Crowd which normally drew less than 5000 and he actually scored on his debut. Big Craig Patterson was right about his home debut but wrong about his first game for the Hibs. Greatest British player of all time played for Britain's pioneering team in Europe the Fabulous Hibees. Georges' mother when asked said he wanted to be a Christian Minister of the Protestant religion before he chose football, wow the irony. I shed a few tears as he died. A true legend. GGTTH glory to God through Christ Jesus.
Tavy@ yes he was past his best! But when you watch him here against a very good strong rangers team he just stood out from the rest the way he glided about that ice rink of a park. The players couldnt keep there feet without the ball.lol. The way best controled that ball on hes chest and IN the air, then he played the best pass i have ever seen, he chipped the ball over 2 rangers players and right onto the feet of arthur duncan or tony higgins who then passesd the ball to jackie mcnamara a thinck who scored a good goal from the edge of the box. But it was that pass from best that split the defence. Then he set up the second goal to beat rangers 2-1. But george could and has played on ice rinks to swamp mud parks and with those old leather wet heavy balls they used. Imagine him today? With a carpet as a pitch or a bowling green, and with those much lighter balls and the diets and the way they keep fit now. Not that best needed to be taught anything. He just had to stay fit and he couldv played on till he was 42 at least. Easy! Then from 42 maybe drop into defence till he was 50, easy! What people forgett or dont know is best could play anywhere on a park and be the best player there. Pat crerand said george was a better defender than he was a forward. No one could touch him today. He didnt run around for 2 mins or do a pathetic dance when he scored. He just put his arm up to say thanck you for the applause. Even though yous wont see another goal quite like that. It does piss me off a bit to thinck he was away by only 25 years old. He did go back after 5 or 6 month a thinck? But he had put on at least a stone in weight and it just wasnt there any more, 6 months drincking and lieying in the sun in spain and eating alot every day!!! Then at 27 he walked out for good but he was done by 25 really! Its one of footballs biggest and saddest tragedys!!! R.I.P GEORGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tavy@ its still hard to believe george best played for hibs! A thinck football fans always thought that best would never come to scotland to play for any scottish club. It just didnt sound or seem right lol. Becouse george best could still earn alot of money in places like london doing other work for tv companys wich he did. But a believe he thought iam still only 33 and players that were naturaly born footballers know ye never lose your skill, like passing, long and short. And control. Like the control we saw him do here on hes chest then that pass, the way he chipped it right over 2 players and onto a plate for tony higgins a thinck. That pass was sublime and one of the best if not the best pass i have ever seen. And on a pitch that was coverd in ice, but no problem to bestie. And how easy he makes it all look. When he gave the ball to dereck johnstone for bringing him down and from the back, he tried to hurt best. Becouse best just made him look stupid, rubbish, and yer playing with real players now dj. lol. A know people that saw the full game and they said it was a pure joy to watch best up close and live. And they were rangers fans.
I watch Ronaldo playing for Manchester United now at the age George went to Hibs and if he would have looked after himself he would still have been three times better even with the heavy pitches and lack of referee protection in those days.
Cannabis is STILL illegal and even till this day alcohol is still legal, that's just one example of the strange reality we accept, it's hurting people like George Best.
At the very end of this video it looks like Willie Ormond is introducing George Best to a man who appears from the tunnel. Does anyone know who this man is?
George could have been better known had he signed up for England rather than Northern Ireland. He faded quickly and died young--the "bottle" does a lot of damage: take the hint!
Don't be ridiculous. Maradona was the greatest talent to ever grace a football pitch. To even try to compare Best to him is laughable. Best had a few neat tricks, but so did Glenn Hoddle, Matt LeTissier, Stan Bowles...yet nobody considers them among the greatest ever.
@@vordmanLike I said, if George had the exposure of the other two mentioned players, who knows what heights he'd have risen to. Had he been an England player, you would have seen something special--but that wasn't to be
Yes. While it was great for Hibees to have such a superstar for a while he was never a Hibs great and anything like it. Flashes of his greatness mixed with lots of ordinary slow past it football from a great player who was long long gone. He keep seeing clips of he goal VS Celtic because quite frankly there wasn't much else to show.
Shame you don't appreciate him pulling on that shirt, Best was among the greatest of all time. He was obviously good enough to play for Hibs at the time.
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
Danny van Strien Holland Europe
That first game at Easter Road v Partick Thistle - all the women in my office (who had no interest in football !) came along with us !. I couldn't believe the crowd when we got to the top of the terracing, the place was jam-packed !. I don't give a **** about all the 'He was past his best' talk - he was still head & shoulders above anyone else and it was an honour to see him !
RIP the best player ever play in scotland by a mile and he played for hibs wooo
I was in the crowd at Love St on the day Eddie Turnbull mentioned . So glad to have seen the man in the flesh .
Yes he was well past his prime when Hibernian signed him, but Hibs should feel privileged and honoured such a legendary player like George Best donned the famous green and White shirt, and will forever be associated into their history.
Best player in world ever playing for worlds greatest club..... Wish we'd gotten him 10 years earlier...... Still a class act though and what a personality..... Jackie M....... What a player he was.
I d have had George play for my club with a wooden leg and he would still bring the crowds in, surely the best ever.
I've a wee tiny memory of being on my auld man's shoulders going inbetween the cow shed & the stand to see George play for us that's all a remember a think it was partick 🇳🇬
George Best You are a Fantastic Football player you are the best George Best Good bye The Belfast Boy word Legend Maradona Pele Cruyff George Best is the Best
I was at those games when George played for us, he was a true master, I went to one of the midweek games with my dad and we were on the top bing and to see how his football brain worked was truly amazing, it was like he was three moves ahead of everyone else on the park, and that was when he was at the end of his career a true genius !
I came to Australia 1967, and was a Hearts supporter, but I worked with Jimmy O Rourke and remember Joe Baker who I think was killed in Italy, do you know how Willie Bauld died at only 49?, thanks BILL
I think I saw every one of his games for Hibs. Still can't believe all these years later that one of the greatest players of all time played for my beloved club.
THE greatest player of all time Johnny. Forget stats. Think charisma and glamour and beautiful football. THE greatest and remember he was over a decade past his amazing best.
did he play well....?
Depends on what you mean by well Jason. Was he the best player on the pitch? Easily. Was he remotely close to what he had been from 1966 to 1969? Nowhere close but then only a handful of players in history have played nearly as well as he did in those three years.
Makes that Hibs shirt iconic now. I want one.
Hibs fans still fondly recall the handful of decent games Best played for them when he was overweight, slow, probably hungover and a decade past his best.
The Old Trafford regulars who saw him every other week in his scintillating early 20s have no idea how lucky they were..
Love you Georgie
See if you get the chance to read the book about the time George played for hibs by John Neil " when George came to Edinburgh " there are some great stories in it from people who met him e g john the taxi driver, Arthur Montfort scotsport, gingling geordies pub, how he helped the reserves. Really worthwhile read and I think you can get some of it on the net. It showed George as a decent down to earth person.
Just downloaded the book (free) and looking fwd to reading it. Thanks for the recommendation mate👍
Great player from a Leeds fan.
I remember going to Easter Road one freezing midweek night to watch George Best, he hardly ran, he was a bit overweight but was still the best player on the park by a mile.
Old timer....The game that stuck in my mind was a midweek game at Easter Road against Dundee and George Best was fantastic, I could not believe what I was seeing, he was a class act. I wonder if this was the same game you remember. I watched Turnbulls tornados and european games against leeds, Liverpool, and Juventus but I never saw anything that matched George Bests performance that night. Billy Bremner came very close to matching it when he played at Easter Road in 1973, but George was more silky and skillful, Billy was more guts and passion even though he did do keepie uppies on his own goal line while being pressured by Hibs forwards!
johnsparky2 I honestly can't remember, i remember watching the game and everything went through him and as the old saying goes, you can tell the quality of a player by the amount of time he seems to have on the ball, he was always in space , never under pressure ( even though he spent the whole game, or so it seemed, just covering about thirty yards either side of the half way line and sprayed the ball around better than anyone I have ever seen. On the odd occasion anyone got near him he could still beat them easily with the drop of a shoulder then ping a thirty yard pass right into someone's stride, pure class is an understatement of his ability, I wish I had seen him in his pomp, I doubt there has been many better.
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Having George Best once on the books at Hibs, surely makes that club legendary. I mean, we (Rangers) had Gascoigne . But as we all know, Besty was the original genius who people like Gascoigne idolised.
just great you hero !!!!!!!!!
Every now and then ( meaning every few decades, even centuries)… society is honoured by a talented genius in their midst and G Best was such an example for the world of football.
As a Thistle fan, I was at Easter Road for his first game for Hibs. I felt privileged to see him.
It was against st mirren at love street
@@adidasaddict2023 I meant home game.
the best player never to play in a world cup and as good as anybody. else who did.
a love hibs n best..we were both glensman growing up...allegedly billy bingham was going to take him to spain in 82 just so george could have said he played in world cup
Nah , Cruyff, Maradona , Zidane , Zico all better , he stopped playing top level at 27 then he was at Hibs, Bournemouth, Fulham, superb at united in the 60s then downhill after, all the greats finished at the top
Gotta luv georgie boy!
He's one of the eternal's❤
Saw him make his debut at St Mirren in November 1979 after the Clydebank v Arbroath game was postponed got the programme autographed a few years later when he guested for Arbroath Victoria in their centenary game
I was lucky enough to be at love St for his first game and his first goal he got the hibees jumping magic .even though we got beat 2_1
BEST...
I lived in Leith when George was playing for Hibs,so I went to Easter Road to see him one Saturday afternoon.Before the teams came out there was an announcment over the PA stating that Mr.Best would not be turning out for Hibs that afternoon,,I would say a good few thousand folks were peed off that day.He would be the best ever palyer I came close to seeing.
I persuaded my girlfriend that she should go with me to Easter Road to see the great George Best playing for Hibs. She was not at all pleased when it was announced that George would not be playing that day. 😡. I did see him play a few times for Hibs, his performance on a Tuesday night game against Dundee at Easter Road was fantastic.😃
johnsparky2 ....yeah ..Mr reliable.....not...but what a player in his day...
johnsparky2 ....yeah ..Mr reliable.....not...but what a player in his day...
then he comes back home to California and lights it up for San Jose in 80 and 81. The ramp up Spartan Stadium was packed unlike it ever was before.
He had the Midas touch by the bucket load and everywhere he played shone like gold. Feel blessed to have seen him at Old Trafford.
Brilliant John 👍
How good was he for Hibs fans? Any Hibs fans remember him?
Truth Seeker. I went along to Easter Road on a Tuesday night in March 1980 to watch Hibs play Dundee, the added bonus was that George Best was playing for Hibs. Hibs won the match 2-0, Best scored one goal and made the other and he ran the show. Jack Adams match report the following day in the newspaper included the following phrases, "George Best stamped his own special magic on this game", "Best slit open the Dundee defence with a 40 yard pass which the other 21 players couldn't even imagine possible", "George Best turned this soccer wake into a memory that the fans will cherish for many years" I watched the great Leeds and Liverpool teams of the early 1970's play Hibs and the great Celtic teams under Jock Stein and none of their players came close to the talent that an ageing unfit George Best showed for 90 mins that night under the floodlights at Easter Road.
I hugely find Old football are better than today when players play for pride , dignity and to ensure football values , i mean , surely there is some players nowadays who compete for their clubs because they love them but half only think about money and economic benefits more than the team itself . and that's sad how things have turned around that way :/
Played against my fiance at the time. I sat in the stand and didn't know if I wanted Ayr United to win! I was 15! But at least I got to see it.
His first game was away against St Mirren at Love Street I witnessed over 23,000 sell out Crowd which normally drew less than 5000 and he actually scored on his debut. Big Craig Patterson was right about his home debut but wrong about his first game for the Hibs. Greatest British player of all time played for Britain's pioneering team in Europe the Fabulous Hibees.
Georges' mother when asked said he wanted to be a Christian Minister of the Protestant religion before he chose football, wow the irony. I shed a few tears as he died. A true legend. GGTTH glory to God through Christ Jesus.
GTGTJC.
Lovely!👍Great words & God bless Georgie Best.
@@daveglynn748 bless you and your family too David thanks for the kind words 👍✝️🙏✅
GGTTH ⚽👕
I think it was 13,000 and not 23,000?
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Tavy@ yes he was past his best! But when you watch him here against a very good strong rangers team he just stood out from the rest the way he glided about that ice rink of a park. The players couldnt keep there feet without the ball.lol. The way best controled that ball on hes chest and IN the air, then he played the best pass i have ever seen, he chipped the ball over 2 rangers players and right onto the feet of arthur duncan or tony higgins who then passesd the ball to jackie mcnamara a thinck who scored a good goal from the edge of the box. But it was that pass from best that split the defence. Then he set up the second goal to beat rangers 2-1. But george could and has played on ice rinks to swamp mud parks and with those old leather wet heavy balls they used. Imagine him today? With a carpet as a pitch or a bowling green, and with those much lighter balls and the diets and the way they keep fit now. Not that best needed to be taught anything. He just had to stay fit and he couldv played on till he was 42 at least. Easy! Then from 42 maybe drop into defence till he was 50, easy! What people forgett or dont know is best could play anywhere on a park and be the best player there. Pat crerand said george was a better defender than he was a forward. No one could touch him today. He didnt run around for 2 mins or do a pathetic dance when he scored. He just put his arm up to say thanck you for the applause. Even though yous wont see another goal quite like that. It does piss me off a bit to thinck he was away by only 25 years old. He did go back after 5 or 6 month a thinck? But he had put on at least a stone in weight and it just wasnt there any more, 6 months drincking and lieying in the sun in spain and eating alot every day!!! Then at 27 he walked out for good but he was done by 25 really! Its one of footballs biggest and saddest tragedys!!! R.I.P GEORGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That pitch at 1:47......sheet ice.....
A good Irish man 👍
Great for Hibs to have that in their history. Would never happen now thanks to the tv money disparity
Tavy@ its still hard to believe george best played for hibs! A thinck football fans always thought that best would never come to scotland to play for any scottish club. It just didnt sound or seem right lol. Becouse george best could still earn alot of money in places like london doing other work for tv companys wich he did. But a believe he thought iam still only 33 and players that were naturaly born footballers know ye never lose your skill, like passing, long and short. And control. Like the control we saw him do here on hes chest then that pass, the way he chipped it right over 2 players and onto a plate for tony higgins a thinck. That pass was sublime and one of the best if not the best pass i have ever seen. And on a pitch that was coverd in ice, but no problem to bestie. And how easy he makes it all look. When he gave the ball to dereck johnstone for bringing him down and from the back, he tried to hurt best. Becouse best just made him look stupid, rubbish, and yer playing with real players now dj. lol. A know people that saw the full game and they said it was a pure joy to watch best up close and live. And they were rangers fans.
I watch Ronaldo playing for Manchester United now at the age George went to Hibs and if he would have looked after himself he would still have been three times better even with the heavy pitches and lack of referee protection in those days.
@@daveglynn748 Ronaldo now is several years older than George was at Hibs. Really puts it into perspective.
Cannabis is STILL illegal and even till this day alcohol is still legal, that's just one example of the strange reality we accept, it's hurting people like George Best.
Also Stockport County's finest
At the very end of this video it looks like Willie Ormond is introducing George Best to a man who appears from the tunnel. Does anyone know who this man is?
His last game versus Falkirk 11/10/1980 2-0 Jock Stein ??
Pele called him the greatest player ever..... enough said
Pele good, Maradona better, George Best.
George could have been better known had he signed up for England rather than Northern Ireland. He faded quickly and died young--the "bottle" does a lot of damage: take the hint!
Don't be ridiculous. Maradona was the greatest talent to ever grace a football pitch. To even try to compare Best to him is laughable. Best had a few neat tricks, but so did Glenn Hoddle, Matt LeTissier, Stan Bowles...yet nobody considers them among the greatest ever.
@@vordmanLike I said, if George had the exposure of the other two mentioned players, who knows what heights he'd have risen to. Had he been an England player, you would have seen something special--but that wasn't to be
@@vordman you clearly know nothing about football.
Pele was better than Maradona Pele never needed to cheat. Diego third George Best ;-)
how did Willie Bauld die at 49?
My Mum could have saved that shot.
He played 17 games ffs .....he can't even remember being there
Yes. While it was great for Hibees to have such a superstar for a while he was never a Hibs great and anything like it. Flashes of his greatness mixed with lots of ordinary slow past it football from a great player who was long long gone. He keep seeing clips of he goal VS Celtic because quite frankly there wasn't much else to show.
Shame you don't appreciate him pulling on that shirt, Best was among the greatest of all time. He was obviously good enough to play for Hibs at the time.
Exactly
@@tigerarmyrule ...and it was only a goal because the keeper was shit.
@@steaks652 The groundsman was good enough to play for Hibs at that time😄
fk sake hibs didnae ken aboot this 1
Saw him playing against Dundee at dens park, he was awful.
He played a number of bad games for Hibs, no doubt about it
I went to school at the back of easter rd and spoke to him a couple of times. Waster.
I should imagine you are, yes. a fecking nobody.
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 lol
@@ripper-wrench Indeed. Pricks like this are all over the internet.
Not as good as the Hibs team in 2016.