AP - 37 minutes ago LONDON - George Best, one of the most dazzling players in soccer history who also reveled in a hard-drinking, playboy lifestyle, died Friday after decades of alcohol abuse, hospital officials said. He was 59. The 1960s star for Manchester United and Northern Ireland, who had a liver transplant three years ago, had been hospitalized since Oct. 1 because of a reaction to medication to control his alcoholism. He appeared close to death last month when doctors discovered internal bleeding and put him on life support. sad thing he;s gone...but better he;s gone than suffering. may his soul rest in peace...
*Newsflash* Legendary football player George Best has passed away in a private London hospital, The day after 24 hour drinking laws come into effect Carlsberg don't do irony but if they did it would'nt get much better than this.....