The rise and fall of a tabloid hero

GEORGE BEST’S death yesterday will kick start a certain type of eulogy. There’ll be plenty of obituaries to read for the next few days, with the usual interchangeable ingredients: Belfast, El Beatle, Matt Busby, Miss World, Fulham, America.

As we said here last week about another Manchester United great, anyone who’s lived through the last 40 years could make a fair attempt at a potted biography themselves.

Our advice is to steer clear of anything containing the dreaded words, ‘Where did it all go wrong?’