FAREWELL TO MR REMARKABLE

sir Matt Busby and Best
Best is the best player united have had. But the lesson to learn from his remarkable journey through the days of his life is not in his skills. The lesson is in his tragic end.
He had an answer for every opponent except one. Best failed to body-swerve one opponent, an increasingly pernicious presence in his life that ultimately brought him down. Alcohol robbed Best of his career, his looks and his life.Yet this was a footballer blessed with a talent that God bestows on only a favoured few. If the world takes caution from the sad images of Best's end, his life will even be more remarkable.
Yet no dark detail from Best's extraordinary existence can be allowed to mask the memory of his brilliance, not even the awful reality that by the end he had ruined a donated liver, having polluted his own years before. Best ranks among the legends of the game, up there with Pele and Diego Maradona, despite being deprived through the lottery of birth of eligibility for a side capable of international prominence. The World Cup stage was never graced by the Northern Ireland luminary. Friends argue that is why he poured his prodigious flair into the pursuit of glory for United.