The football pundit recalled having a drink with the Manchester United legend in the months leading up to his death, when he tried to get him to ditch alcohol
Football pundit Eamon Dunphy has revealed how he once tried to get George Best to ditch the booze – by smoking a spliff with him.
Dunphy, 79, was a lifelong friend of Best after the pair first came through the youth ranks at Man Utd together back in the 1950s. He said Best, who died at the age of 59 in 2005, was actually a very shy person who had used alcohol to hide that. He said: “It was very sad, really. He had been hospitalised and he was in bad health because of the drink. Now, he had given it up officially. So, we went out and the first thing he did was order a brandy.
“I was drinking bottles of lager, which was my thing, but I had a couple of spliffs and I said to him, ‘George, you shouldn’t be drinking that stuff, that f**king stuff is killing you. Have a spliff.’
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