Dunphy hoping for bestseller with Best biography

GEORGE BEST will be the next Irish superstar to get the Eamon Dunphy biography treatment, it was confirmed yesterday.

The controversial football pundit, radio broadcaster and journalist has been given a “substantial advance” to write the biography of the Belfast football great who died last November.

Eamon Dunphy already penned Keane: The Autobiography and Unforgettable Fire: The Story of U2, with the former causing major controversy when Keane admitted in the book that he had deliberately injured a former opponent.

Dunphy revealed his latest challenge in an interview with former gossip columnist, Terry Keane in Social and Personal.

In the same interview, he comes clean on his feelings about such pillars of Irish society as President Mary McAleese and former Kerry GAA player and manager Páidí Ó Sé. One he refers to as a “tribal time-bomb” and the other an “animal”.

Sixty-one-year-old Dunphy was a professional football player with Millwall before beginning his lucrative career in journalism.