Best's coffin arrives at family home

George Best was finally back home in Belfast today.

Fri, 02 Dec, 2005 - 13:50

George Best was finally back home in Belfast today.

More than 40 years after he set off as a teenager to seek fame and fortune with Manchester United, his coffin was taken back to his father’s home in the Cregagh area of east Belfast.

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