Obscene wages will kill game - Best

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

Obscene wages will kill game - 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.

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