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 (6 years ago, aged 59)

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George Best was a Northern Irish professional football player, best known for his years with Manchester United. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders.

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  • 1963
    September 14: made his Manchester United debut
    1 !
  • 1963
    October 1: scored his first goal against Burnley
    2 !
  • 1965
    Manchester United claimed the league title
    4 !
  • 1966
    March 1: scored two goals in a European Cup quarter-final match against Benfica
    2 !
  • 1966
    September 1: dubbed "the fifth Beatle" for his long hair, good looks and extravagant celebrity lifestyle
    2 !
  • 1968
    Scored in Manchester United's European Cup win
    4 !
  • 1968
    crowned European Footballer of the Year and Football Writers' Association Player of the Year
    10 !
  • 1969
    opened two nightclubs in Manchester, Oscar's and the other called Slack Alice's
    1 !
  • 1974
    quit United for good
    0 !
  • 1984
    received a three-month prison sentence for drunk driving, assaulting a police officer and failing to answer bail
    -5 !
  • 1990
    appeared on an edition of primetime BBC chat show Wogan in which he was clearly drunk and swore, at one point saying to the host, "Terry, I like screwing"
    -4 !
  • 2002
    successful liver transplant at King's College Hospital in London
    0 !
  • 2004
    February 2: convicted of another drunk driving offence and banned from driving for 20 months
    -4 !
  • 2005
    November 25: Died as a result of a lung infection and multiple organ failure
    0 !

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