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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Official George Best Story is an excellent documentary praiseworthy because of what it is not--in that it is not another dismal trawl through the last 25 years of Best's CV as an after-dinner speaker and dubious celebrity, indulging his alcoholism and womanising and suggesting that his decision to throw away his prodigious talent as a footballer bears the tint of romance rather than tragedy. (Anyone seeking a copy of Best's drink-sodden appearance on Wogan will be disappointed.) Instead, The Official George Best Story concentrates on the period in which Best spent nine or so seasons at Manchester United. The interviews with a touchingly repentant Best, his team-mates and his father are interesting and occasionally revealing. However, the strength of this documentary lies in the footage of Best playing, of which there is a great deal, much of it rarely seen. Best may well have nobody but himself to blame, but watching the clips of him at his peak, when he was a byword for, and a personification of, the virtues of audacity, courage and grace, it's hard not to think he deserves better. --Andrew Mueller
Synopsis
Told by George himself this the story of the man who walked out of football at the age of twenty-six having proved, arguably, that he was the greatest footballer ever.
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