The Best of times, the worst of times
The surprise is that, for once, the word is not used in the context of alcoholism.
Instead, the journalist Hugh McIlvanney — who was fortunate to have a ringside seat to see George at his incomparable best and who was later one of the more insightful observers of his terrible decline — talks about how, as a rising star at Old Trafford, the young lad from Belfast showed all the signs of being “addicted to football”.
