Best comes home to Belfast for last time

MORE than 40 years after he set off as a teenager to seek fame and fortune with Manchester United, George Best returned home yesterday.

Best comes home to Belfast for last time
Sat, 03 Dec, 2005 - 00:00
Ian Graham

His coffin was taken back to his father’s home in the Cregagh area of east Belfast. A policeman saluted as the hearse pulled up outside the terraced house in Burren Way at exactly 1.15pm.

Moments later his coffin, draped in a Manchester United flag, was wheeled into the house where the blinds in all the windows were closed.

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