George Best vs Manchester City | First Division 71/72

George Best vs Manchester City | First Division 71/72 | Highlights

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Despite not playing very well on that day George Best produces 2 assists in an away derby against Manchester City.
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@tonyoliver2750 2 жыл бұрын

I was at that game. I went through the wrong turn style and ended up among the City supporters, standing there in my red and white scarf. I guess they thought I wasn't a full shilling, and just laughed as I shouted for the Reds. I got bumped against a wall after I came out of the ground though, by about 30 Blues, but no damage done. Happy days.

@beorlingo 2 жыл бұрын

I had a similar experience back in prob 1975, but in another country, another sport. Was the only One wearing yellow and black on the blue-red-yellow stand. They kept pulling my hat down over my eyes until I got fed up and left. More humourous, those days!

@stephenjamison6124 10 ай бұрын

😂

@MrRickytuk 2 жыл бұрын

Best had great vision and was extremely creative with his passing. He's generally thought of as a dribbler but that was more when he was a raw and very talented kid. Best the man was a playmaker more than a dribbler.

@kuswadiatnawi6758 4 ай бұрын

Best distribution was really excellent!!!!!....his passes were superb!!!!..

@kelvinlewis4065 Жыл бұрын

Dont get him angry Francis .You wont like George when hes angry !!...Great footage !..As a Liverpool fan ...I still remember and loved the era when football was hard and the pitches were sand dunes and mole hills . For some strange reason .This didnt have any effect on George Best .. God given talent ...R.I.P. ...Legend .

@davidsmith6355 Ай бұрын

well said Kelvin, Man U fan here - its always nice to see the mutual respect between our clubs and I love many of your past and present and probably future players 🙂

@steveblack610 9 ай бұрын

Always love the way the defender holds his shirt to keep him off the ball and it leaves it wide open for Mcilroy to latch onto it.

@tonymarshall4164 3 жыл бұрын

His touch wasn’t quite there even at this point in his career.....lack of training and out on the town drinking takes it’s toll. A lack of sharpness in his game.....From 65 to 70 he was phenomenal, blessed to see him play live many times.

@jamesmurphy1389 2 жыл бұрын

Very true. His peak is over - even by this time. But what a player he was! Two footed. Sublime balance. Fast. Superb touch, strike and pass. Best player ever saw.

@alanmctavish4802 2 жыл бұрын

Tony marshal, i was thincking that myself tony about best. He just seemend to be going through the motions, wich is a sign your not interested or you havent got the skill you had maybe a year ago. And here with best a thinck its a bit of both! I have never saw best give away so many bad passes and struggle to beat a player as in this game! Yes the the late night drincking and partys are clearly catching up with best, as its so obvious here. And he was still only age 25 here. What a waste. But what a player. He was the greatest player in the world from 1965 to 1971 easy! But it should have been from 1965 to 1981. There was so much more to give and we didnt get it all. And neither did george. Rip george

@tonymarshall4164 2 жыл бұрын

@@alanmctavish4802 My best mate Gary Locke of Chelsea played against Best , I was there to see it at Stamford Bridge...George was 26 and Gary 19 playing right back, he was marking George directly.....He told me after the game that George has lost that explosive yard of pace and is now much easier to play against.

@eyeballtickler 9 ай бұрын

@@tonymarshall4164there's another video of mainly 66-68 and you can just tell he's lost that yard. Doesn't carry the ball as much, looks up for the pass more instead. Crazy that he's only 25 here considering that

@steaks652 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this footage, so much of George and his unique talent went uncaptured.

@elspencer6334 3 жыл бұрын

The irony of Francis Lee complaining about someone diving...!

@bernhardottomond9386 8 ай бұрын

Hoje em dia faltam pontas como Garrincha e Best!que estejam em bom lugar,n nossa memoriavforever!!🎉

@dee1381 Жыл бұрын

Great footage. Thanks for sharing! George Best and Sammy McIlroy ⚽️🔥 Proud to be from Northern Ireland

@dannyvanstrien3249 Жыл бұрын

George Best You are a Fantastic Football player You are the Best George Best Good bye the Belfast boy World legend Maradona Cruyff Pele George Best is the Best

@saulpaulsaul3378 3 жыл бұрын

The Irish have been blessed with talent

@daveglynn748 2 жыл бұрын

Georgie and Sammy Mac the Belfast reds👍

@jamesmurphy1389 2 жыл бұрын

Not George's best game by a long chalk. His peak is over - even by this time. But what a player he was! Two footed. Sublime balance. Fast. Superb touch, strike and pass. Best player I ever saw. Indeed, his like is never to be seen again.

@ps123fan 2 жыл бұрын

damn he was that good huh, makes me think there is still cam recorded unreleased footage out there, mustve been a priveledge to see him play, i can only imagine. like messi today

@jamesmurphy1389 2 жыл бұрын

@@ps123fan Very true; though George was two-footed unlike the great Messi - and he could head really well too.

@patagualianmostly7437 2 жыл бұрын

@@ps123fan Messi is nowhere near George Best.... Messi is good, I'll grant you. But his all-round game has never been at the same level as George's was. And Messi is nowhere near his compatriot: Maradona. He was a footballer. You are confusing eras in the game: When Footballers played Football... with those that think they are fashion icons.

@lukeswallow1075 2 жыл бұрын

@@patagualianmostly7437 Messi is objectively leaps and bounds ahead of George best. i have no idea why people even think best can be considered better. All the science, biology, stats and footage show Messi has done things consistently that no other player has done.

@davidsmith6355 Ай бұрын

@@lukeswallow1075 what stats?

@dmr9767 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video!

@dommccaffry3802 2 жыл бұрын

He was already past his peak here

@francollins4036 3 жыл бұрын

Best - why I watched football. Francis Lee - why I stopped watching football.

@stephenwalker850 2 жыл бұрын

Ooofft

@alanmctavish4802 2 жыл бұрын

Fran collins, franny lee just about dived in every game he played in. But tbh he was actually great at it, he was just a little cheating rat. I never rated him never, he was to easy to read, i would just take the ball of him so easy, thats why he had to dive so much. He was the best diver in the box i have ever seen. He would time his dive when some daft clown defender was stupid enough to slide in wich you dont do, so lee would dive at the perfect time and win a penalty becouse he would wait till the other player had slid in and then made contact with lee who would then do his perfect dive and have the cheek to roll around in agony to waist time. He did exactly that to man utd exactly a year before this game in the leauge cup in the last 2 minutes and at the end of the match wich city won becouse lee got a late penalty. George in total disgust and in a pure rage with the referee and lee then punshend the ball in anger out of referee jack taylors hands and george was suspended for 8 weeks for that. Then came back in brilliant style in febuary 1970 and scored six great goals his sixth goal is the best one as he dummys the keeper then walks it into the net. Those goals used to get shown alot when george was on a tv show! You can see a big difference in his play from then and this game here and its only a year apart? Really sad how quick he lost that magic touch, but so great to have seen him at his best! What a player! Goat

@johnrockyryan 13 күн бұрын

A player both Pele and Maradona admired thats speaks volumes to how special George was, and of all places he came from Nothern Ireland and even as an Irish person i find that kind of crazy 😂. RIP George Best one of a kind

@neilwilliams1518 2 жыл бұрын

went to this rhyl to mcr .rhyl station awash with reds...boot boys tartan and cans of tartan..my first game without the old man and uncles...awesome day

@IvanIBautista Жыл бұрын

Que excelente jugador fue Best, pero en el minuto 8:30 mal saque de banda de Best jaja , se nota que entra a la cancha a divertirse pero no toma mucha importancia los detalles de juego, el futbol callejero contra el futbol de academia

@Log-wf9tf 2 жыл бұрын

The number are there to show. All the star players now, at their young we've seen them the more they get older the more they played great football and majority of them

@garylucas7050 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t think franny can lecture anyone on diving 😝

@portcullis5622 2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@mickfoskett6629 Жыл бұрын

Lee won pen!!🤣👹

@leeryan4707 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect by Best two bits of class produced two goals...easy to slate but impossible to replicate

@ysgol3 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic pisstake of Francis 'Tom Daley' Lee by George.

@13muller9 2 жыл бұрын

King of diving is accusing George Best of diving!!!!!

@Bill-Butcher 3 жыл бұрын

Great video... thanks for sharing... more George Best please 🙏😁

@HarmsFootball 3 жыл бұрын

If I'll find his games that aren't already covered on KZfaq, I'll certainly make one.

@Bill-Butcher 3 жыл бұрын

@@HarmsFootball Good man 👍

@eduardoluiz5078 3 жыл бұрын

Best the ten tens fifas players in históry futebol !! Genial driblings Mutant player forever !! Geord Best in memórian! 😢👍👍👏👏

@buffalee Ай бұрын

EVEN ON A BAD DAY HE IS WORTH BEING LOOKED AT

@AhmadSafty96 3 жыл бұрын

And this was a bad day for him? Damn he was fantastic

@HarmsFootball 3 жыл бұрын

In the first half he was losing almost all of his duels & generally was more passive than you expect of him. I wouldn’t be too surprised to find out that he was hangover to be honest.

@AhmadSafty96 3 жыл бұрын

@@HarmsFootball pls upload more of him

@rabbieburns2501 3 жыл бұрын

@@HarmsFootball Was thinking the very same thing;0)

@alanmctavish4802 3 жыл бұрын

Tavy@ i had to laugh when man utd got a free kick and charlton put the ball down to take it then best came up and passesd it wide to morgan as if to say ffs bobby hurry up and use your eyes and brain. That was a sign of bobby getting old. Best didnt need to thinck to even take that free kick as quick as that. Rip george

@johndavies6258 2 жыл бұрын

The irony is Franny lee accusing someone of diving

@michaelking9772 2 жыл бұрын

As a Utd fan Fannie Lee was a class act.!!!

@mikeellis6077 6 ай бұрын

Fanny Lee showing us what a good diver he was

@Log-wf9tf 2 жыл бұрын

I can see a big deferences between the old players and current players. The old players are so physic, staminal, aggressive, technique, current players. Is age matters ?

@KyleJamesFrazer Жыл бұрын

5:33 "Dive by Best" - he was kicked to the floor :D

@ianbarker219 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh..the hero's..the crowd.....no VAR. "Can we all play the game as, without review..and more replay's"lol

@gerthie 3 жыл бұрын

When George could have been at the height of his game he was a pale shadow here

@Del-yv1qy 2 жыл бұрын

he only made 2 goals

@johnpacino007 3 жыл бұрын

Not one of Best better display's. He seemed slightly sluggish in this game. Some nice inspired passes here & there, showing his superb ambidextrous technique.

@fc-ff5vy 2 жыл бұрын

Who do you think is the best African player of all time?

@johnpacino007 2 жыл бұрын

@@fc-ff5vy Eusébio followed by George Weah

@fc-ff5vy 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnpacino007 For me its eto"oo and weah. Eusebio is Portuguese. Don't you think today's strikers are one dimensional poachers? 90s strikers was a different breed.

@johnpacino007 2 жыл бұрын

@@fc-ff5vy Eusébio was born in Mozambique, Africa. He played for Portugal, but he's not Portuguese. That would be like saying, that because the Argentinian Di Stéfano played for Spain. He's Spanish!

@a.m.armstrong8354 Жыл бұрын

@@johnpacino007 Sam E'too bro. Zidane is Algerian, George Weah, Yaya Toure, Eusebio, Mario Coluna, Jay Jay Okocha, Roger Milla, Abedi Pele, Patrick Vieira, Sadio Mane, Nwanko Kanu..if European nation's academies didn't vacuum away African and South American talent, those nations would be far stronger.

@orinorio1 2 жыл бұрын

lol Watching this. Today most of these players would have been sent off.

@user-fs6sl2er1x 7 ай бұрын

The greatest ever Dutch player it's a shame they never won the world cup playing total football

@JJ-xi5or 6 ай бұрын

? Best was an Ulsterman

@francollins4036 3 жыл бұрын

George don't moan he just scores goals.

@BarryBollox. 2 жыл бұрын

Franny Lee dive was epic haha

@patagualianmostly7437 2 жыл бұрын

Years of practice! Makes perfect, doncha know?

@freeconvention 2 жыл бұрын

Kidd's celebration to his own goal reminds me of how Fergie used to celebrate his team's goals

@patagualianmostly7437 2 жыл бұрын

yeah...and then Kidd went on to be a traitor! How long was he at Man City? Shocking! (Only Kidding, Brian, thank you!)

@davidsmythe9266 Жыл бұрын

Ha love the way franny simulates, lol

@garyturnbull9719 3 жыл бұрын

Lee one pen looks like Donny(the invisible mans) Van der Bleaks dad😉

@davidsmith6355 Ай бұрын

2.00 Lee, who actually invented diving before it was even an Olympic sport lol. He might even have been right actually but I didn't see a replay and didn't bother rewinding back cos even if he was right, he would always be wrong about diving lol. Especially City fans know this

@danielepavone3131 2 жыл бұрын

I think it was called First Division, not First League

@debanjanadhikary201 Жыл бұрын

8;38 first siuu celebration invented🤣🤣

@alanmctavish4802 3 жыл бұрын

Tavy@ when best makes a bad pass its not a bad pass its the worse kind i have seen. Even schook boys dont make bad passes like best did here. It was almost as if he was being paid to do give the ball to a man city player it was that bad. He must not look up or maybe he thincks hes to good to look up. But it is true he struggled like hell against the arsenals, leeds, liverpool, everton, chelsea, man city, he never had a good game against leeds or liverpool, the players just took the ball of him so easy. And when he got the ball he had to pass it quick or lose it. This game here is the start of hes down fall. In the first half a thought he was drunck. But he only got a bit better in the second half. Not that much. He couldnt create anything by this time or beat players and keep posetion. His body couldnt do what his brain was telling him. So he would take to long with the ball becouse he didnt know what to do and would end up losing it. And yes drinck played a big part in it. When a player like best loses that extra yard it makes a huge difference. A huge difference! R.i.p george and thancks

@irishdemon9346 3 жыл бұрын

You are a joke. You know NOTHING about football. EVERYTHING you said above has no foundation or truth or fact. Idiot.

@michaelnakonecznyj6770 3 жыл бұрын

Bad spelling

@morganalvarez5925 7 ай бұрын

The fact of the matter was Franny Lee was too fat and too slow to keep up with George Best Lee should have been sent off for his verbal outburst.

@barrylongstaff2816 11 ай бұрын

Georgie Boy must have been on the tiles for this one, quite poor

@SoulshineWavy 2 жыл бұрын

He just keeps losing the ball lol

@iancognito6920 4 ай бұрын

had he been drinking before playing this game?

@fasthracing 11 ай бұрын

Not very diverse back in the day.

@carl75ful 3 ай бұрын

Best was slow

@user-nu8hw3hf3x 5 ай бұрын

wow....highlights ....and u don't show MC goal in 2nd half

@HarmsFootball 5 ай бұрын

It's highlights of George Best's performance, not of the game.

@saswataroy9023 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing special. Too much overhyped. And some block-headeds dare to compare him with Pele and Maradona. Lol.

@EyeMixMusic Жыл бұрын

You are aware that Best was nowhere near his top form in this game, right? At his peak he was absolutely up there with those two. Go watch Best's greatest games, the evidence is there.

@mickfoskett6629 Жыл бұрын

Football is not for you pal!🙄👹