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'...packed with amusing stories...'
--This text refers to the
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The best-selling collection of football memoirs finally in paperback
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are hardly any good books about football. Why else is 'Fever Pitch' still regarded as one of the best. But Nick Hornby is just League Two compared to George Best, who writes as wicked as he played. 'Scoring at Half-Time' makes your stomach hurt as much as his liver. It is full of self-ironic anecdotes and definetely the funniest football book ever.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Written in a breezy, self-deprecating style the book captures George Best at a point in his life where he seems to have a perspective on himself and his past and is looking forward to a sober,rewarding future. Sadly, that frame of mind and that hope is perhaps dashed. This aside the book seldom strays into the self-introspection that characterirsed Blessed and is an appropriate follow-up. Stories, some old - some new, abound and his observations and reflections on the characters around him during his heyday are often genuinely funny. The story about George, Eusebio and a book signing is among the best I've come across.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The writing style of this book takes a little getting used to, but if you persevere you will be rewarded with an insight into George Best and the world of football from an era that is sadly long gone now. Back in those days footballers were not millionaires and were not untouchable. Back then though there were similarities with today’s game and for an example take George Best's description of Wolverhampton Wanderers Billy Wright from the 1950s and David Beckham from today’s scene. The stories that George Best relates throughout the pages of this book will shock you, open your eyes, make you laugh and sometimes cry. George best is very frank about the game and I learnt many things about football from his era that I had not previously realized. The biggest impressing this book made upon me is the fact that the footballers from George Best's time were ordinary men playing on a football field and as a result many of the accounts on the surface feel ordinary - but the way George Best relates them is anything but ordinary. Sadly, George Best passed away on Friday the 25th of November 2005. Reading this book is one way to keep this great footballing genius' memory alive in all of us.
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Entertaining in parts but ultimately very sad
I read this book after finishing 'Provided You Don't Kiss Me' and, frankly, it suffered by comparison. Read more
Published 12 months ago by CorkRebel67
Be careful what you wish for!
George Best was a man of undoubted charm and charisma who could have made a success in many fields had he not have been the most gifted footballer of his generation. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2010 by Strangerbird
The Beatles were the second, third, fourth and fifth George Best!
This book was written with Martin Knight in the months after George`s life-saving operation. Sadly, we all know he was destined to leave us a couple of years later, but when you... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2009 by JUDE
A little padded out
I have been to a few ex-footballers after dinner events so this book really appealed to me. It does have quite a few amusing stories in it (many of which I had heard before) but... Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2003 by N. Brett
Pleasantly surprised
As a collector of all things United I was hobby-bound to purchase this latest tome from George Best. Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2003
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