Players’ ‘obscene’wages will kill game, says Best

GEORGE Best has branded players’ wages “obscene” and warned the huge rise in the top stars’ salaries will end up killing the game.

The former Manchester United and Northern Ireland star, who says his health is recovering since his liver transplant, believes the game as a whole has changed and not for the better since his time in the 1960s and 70s.

Recovering alcoholic Best said: "Some of the money being paid to players these days is obscene. When you look at the situation in England where people are homeless and some guy can earn £100,000 a week for an hour and a half's work, that is obscene.