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Simply the Best, 30 years after his glory days with Manchester United, George Best remains a legend that nothing can tarnish. Indifferent seasons with lesser clubs, publically disastrous liaisons, and a battle with drink have done nothing to erase the memories of this charismatic footballer. This biography tells the story of his troubled relationship with his family in Belfast, his near-adoption by Matt Busby, his tensions with Bobby Charlton, his wives and lovers, and the serious personal failures, both on and off the pitch. ... Read more

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Chapters: Robbie Fowler, George Best, Ian Rush, Dwight Yorke, Peter Beardsley, Stephen Dobbie, Kazuyoshi Miura, Andy Todd, Charlie Miller, Leo Bertos, Simon Yeo, Jeremy Brockie, Cristiano Dos Santos Rodrigues, Bobby Petta, Cássio José de Abreu Oliveira, Helbert Frederico Carreiro Da Silva, Bob Mountford, Diego Walsh, Laurie Abrahams, Samson Siasia, Shin Tae-Yong, Victor Sikora, Song Jin-Hyung, Ryan Baldacchino, Peter Marinello, Alex Williams, Kim Pan-Keun, Gavin Wilkinson, Michael Enfield, Chad Coombes, Wojtek Zarzycki, Vlada Stošić, Campbell Banks, Joe Keenan, Milton Rodríguez, Seo Hyuk-Su, John Deans, Branko Jelić, Gary Mcginnis, Zdravko Borovnica, Riki Van Steeden, Yoon Sang-Chul, Jurica Siljanoski, Richard Kitzbichler, Stuart Mccluskey, Wolry Wolfe, Fadil Muriqi, Graham Barnett, Mark Atkinson, Peter Griffiths, Geoffrey Claeys, Naoki Imaya, Hiroyuki Ishida, Eric Carruthers, Bill Summerscales, Dejan Joksimović, Blaže Georgioski, Predrag Jovanović, Paul Mcfadden, Jeff Campbell, Brian Hamilton, Scott Fraser, Ross Gardiner, Vittorio Coccia, Pierluigi Di Già, Marko Filipović, Steven Mcgarry, Andy Kane, Blagoja Kuleski, Petar Cestić. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 292. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Appearances (Goals). National team caps and goals correct as of 09:14, 23 October 2008 (UTC)Robert Bernard "Robbie" Fowler (born 9 April 1975) is an English footballer, who plays for Perth Glory FC in the Australian A-League. He is best remembered for his playing days at Liverpool in two spells, and is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League. Fowler scored 183 goals in total for Liverpool, of which 128 were scored in the Premier League. He subsequently played for Leeds United and Manchester City, before returning to Liverpool in January 2006. He moved clubs ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=346075 ... Read more

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George Best is one of the most popular players in the history of English football who still draws the fans long after the end of his career on the pitch. In this book, he recalls the moments in his life that have given him the greatest pleasure, the loudest laughs, the banter, pranks and anecdotes that make up a life in football that is as high-spirited and fun-loving as it is successful. Managers, players, referees, and officials from all walks of the game and of course his beloved Manchester United from the Busby-Babes to Ryan Giggs feature in this affectionate look at football from one of the greatest and well-loved players the game has ever produced. ... Read more

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I found this manual to be informative. The authors knew what they were talking about, instead of being on the outside. They wrote with experience which is helpful to any level of coach and player alike. I really enjoyedreading this manual and will keep it as part of my professional library. ... Read more

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The man who followed him was John Roberts, a newspaper reporter who was given the task of shadowing Best during the most turbulent seasons of his Manchester United career. He was also the first to be told by Best - over a steak dinner in a Manchester pub - that he wanted to leave United and pack in the game that had brought him fame and fortune. Unlike any other book, 'Sod This I'm Off To Marbella' paints a unique and in-depth portrait of Best between 1971-1973 - the turning point years in his life and career. Based on Roberts' original book published in 1973, it reveals the pressures he faced and how the public failed to come to terms with his unprecedented fall from grace. Through the author's eyes, it also tells the inside story of Best's rocky relationship with the press and the national media's obsession with his celebrity lifestyle. ... Read more

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The game we know in the UK as 'football' is often referred toas 'soccer' in many other countries.

George loves playingfootball. But, today he can't find anyone to play football with. At his grandparents'suggestion he settles for a cosy afternoon with them reading his favourite traditionalnursery rhymes. George then dozes off and finds himself inside the pages of thesetraditional tales. He meets the contemporary version of characters such as Little MissMuffet, Old Mother Hubbard, and Little Jack Horner, to name but a few. George roundsthem up and organises a great game of five-a-side football. Goals are scored, thewhistle blows... and George wakes up to find it was all a dream!

OR, was it?! That mouse running up the grandfather clock is for real!

The objective of this fun, colourful book is to encouragechildren's imagination to 'run wild', to fantasize about something they're passionateabout and to realise that dreamscan be very entertaining. Here, football is 'key'...andmost children love playing or watching football. From two players up, from a backyard toa football pitch, it's possible for children generally to engage in an exhilirating gameof football whatever their language, their culture, their colour, their creed, or eventheir level of skill. In football there are no barriers.

George'sBest Football Game introduces simple dialogue to a young audience and uses repetitivephrases (e.g. "football another day perhaps?") and repetitive images (e.g. a football,and a red nursery rhyme book) throughout. George's football players are vibrant andexciting to look at, while the story and pictures are as charming as he is! ... Read more

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A biography about Sir Matt Busby, the football manager. It contains photographs and first-hand accounts from family, friends and players. ... Read more

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Perfect for young players of all levels, All About Soccer covers basic rules, equipment, player positions, skills and strategies; Olympic and World Cup competition; and the history of organized soccer in the United States. Star players of yesterday and today are included, as well as information about leagues for people who want to play for fun and maybe hope to become the stars of tomorrow.

This joins George Sullivan's All About Baseball, All About Basketball, All About Football, and All About Hockey as an invaluable resource for young sports fans. ... Read more

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Manchester in the late 1960s and early 1970s revolved around the exploits of one man - George Best. At his side throughout this exciting period was his best friend and confidante Malcolm Wagner (or 'Waggy' as he is universally known) with whom George eventually opened Slack Alice night-club in 1973. Now for the first time Waggy sets the record straight on George's exploits during a period when he was the most recognisable face in the world. The relationship began following a chance meeting at a Manchester night-club in the mid-sixties. Some months before, Malcolm's career as a singer with early 60s pop-combo The Whirlwinds had ended but that chance meeting with Best, then a young footballer with a growing reputation following a number of sensational performances for Manchester United, led Malcolm into a new social group - the Best Set, which grew in reputation as George's fame grew. By 1968 George was winning the European Cup and Malcolm was running the Village Barber, often cutting Bestie's hair in front of crowds of adoring fans. Manchester was their oyster and as George's fame grew, it soon became clear that the pair needed a sanctuary.They found it in the infamous environs of The Brown Bull, a rundown pub on the wrong side of the tracks. Within weeks of the pair setting up residence there, the nation's most famous celebrities were attracted to a previously non-descript Salford pub. By 1973 George and Malcolm opened Slack Alice night-club in the city, once more attracting the celebrity cream of the day to a club tucked down a small side street in Manchester. Again, the power of George's magnetism ensured the venture's success even if by now Bestie's football career had ended. Regular visitors included the likes of Elton John, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart. The pair travelled the world together from Canada down to Mexico via Palm Springs, then later on to South Africa and Israel. The tales of these trips and many other exploits are told here for the first time as Malcolm comes clean about life with George and the power of his celebrity and reveals the seeds of his ultimate demise through alcoholism. At its centre, this is the tale of two lads with the world at their feet in an era when anything seemed possible.It includes contributions from: Sir Michael Parkinson, Bernard Manning, Graham Gouldman, Paddy Crerand, Andy Peebles, and George Best. ... Read more

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'For those old enough to remember Duncan Edwards, watching Professor Williams, Best's doctor, was to be reminded of the slower, grainier days of 1958 when, in the words of Don DeLillo, "things were not replayed and worn out and run down and used up before midnight of the first day". The hero is the creature other people would like to be. Edwards was such a man, and he enabled people to respect themselves more.' By the mid-fifties Manchester United had caught the imagination of the country. Duncan Edwards played his first game for the club at the age of fifteen years and eight months in 1953. Two years later he won his first England cap and Walter Winterbottom, then England manager, referred to him as 'the spirit of British football'. On GBP 15-a-week and living at Mrs Watson's boarding house at 5 Birch Avenue in Manchester, Edwards was the most prized of the Busby Babes. Then in February 1958 came Munich. Half a decade later George Best represented United reborn. 'Georgie' of the boutiques and dolly birds; 'El Beatle' of the European Cup in '68 and European Player of the Year; in the opinion of Pele, the most naturally talented footballer that ever lived.Retired at twenty-seven and reduced to the role of Chelsea barfly and tabloid perennial; George, where did it all go wrong? An investigation into a club, two personalities and an England that has all but disappeared, "Best and Edwards" plots the course and trajectory of two careers unmoored in wildly different ways. ... Read more

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A collection of quotes and reflections by and about one of the greatest footballers in the world, George Best. ... Read more