{"id":127,"date":"2005-12-03T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/03\/george-best\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T12:54:59","slug":"george-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2005\/12\/03\/george-best\/","title":{"rendered":"George Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Best is being buried today in Belfast. He has been granted, if not a state funeral, then certainly a public one<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He was a genius- footage of him playing shows the impossible.
\nI was told an, almost certainly apocryphal, story that reflects just how great his talent was, and how important football fans felt that talent was to them.
\nIt is also a story I think is brilliantly Irish in tone, even though I have no idea of its provenance. <\/p>\n

\nGeorge Best is in a luxury five star hotel, on the top of his game. He’s just been paid for a modelling gig, and has spread all the money on the bed. Miss World is in a state of advanced undress on top of the money. Bottles of champagne sit in their ice buckets. The door knocks and a young hotel waiter rolls in a feast of the finest foods and wines. He sees who he’s delivering to. He looks around the room- taking in the money, the beautiful girl, the champagne and the fine food. <\/p>\n

“Oh George”, he says, “Where did it all go wrong?”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Best is being buried today in Belfast. He has been granted, if not a state funeral, then certainly a public one. He was a genius- footage of him playing shows the impossible. I was told an, almost certainly apocryphal, story that reflects just how great his talent was, and how important football fans felt that talent was to them. It is also a story I think is brilliantly Irish in tone, even though I have no idea of its provenance. George Best is in a luxury five star hotel, on the top of his game. He’s just been paid for a modelling gig, and has spread all the money on the bed. Miss World is in a state of advanced undress on top of the money. Bottles of champagne sit in their ice buckets. The door knocks and a young hotel waiter rolls in a feast of the finest foods and wines. He sees who he’s delivering to. He looks around the room- taking in the money, the beautiful girl, the champagne and the fine food. “Oh George”, he says, “Where did it all go wrong?”","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}