After winning the prize, Dong Fangzhuo rushed back in a hurry.

Before boarding the plane, he received a bad news message - on the 25th of the British local time, British football legend and former Manchester United star George Best stopped breathing.

He is known as one of the greatest stars in history at the age of 59.

After Roger Williams, the attending physician at Cromwell Hospital, had no choice but to announce the bad news, the British media and the fans were sad. This morning, local time in London, Best fans arrived in advance to give him the No. 7 jersey he used to at Manchester United, with Manchester United scarf, letters, etc. that read "George, you are a legend" and express his love for him.

Due to long-term alcohol abuse as an adult, this caused serious harm to his body. Since drinking too much in 2002, Best had to undergo a liver transplant. In early October this year, Best had to be hospitalized due to liver disease. After more than a month of fighting against death, the legendary star finally left at the age of 59.

Dong Fangzhuo joined Manchester United for a year and a half and has never been alone with Best, but this does not prevent him from respecting this senior.

This senior once supported Dong Fangzhuo in front of the media, believing that Dong Fangzhuo can carry Manchester United's tradition and become a great Manchester United captain.

In the eyes of the British, Best was the most powerful football player in Great Britain after the war, and even ranked among the top in Europe and the world. Only Bailey, Maradona, Stefano and Cruyff could stand shoulder to shoulder with him. But as an old player who has been retired for 35 years, his death can trigger widespread memorials from the Prime Minister to millions of civilians, and the scale is close to Diana, which is not just something that football can play.

Regarding Best's premature disappearance, traditional views are believed to be due to his personal weakness, which is richly illustrated in his life after retirement: in order to fill the void, he indulged in alcohol and women. He is considered a model of "premature death genius" and is led to self-destruction by the same force that drives his success.

Although these views are not without reason, Best's life cannot be completely attributed to internal factors. As the first entertainment superstar figure in the history of modern football, Best and every aspect of his life have been magnified by modern media, which was unimaginable before his era, but since then, it has become common to explore the private lives of athletes.

His name is remembered in Manchester, and even Miss Tancha is no exception.

Best was born on May 22, 1946 in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. His father was a shipyard worker and his mother worked in a tobacco factory. Best was quick to react when he was a child and was admitted to a local "key" elementary school, but he was not happy because the traditional elementary school's traditional program was rugby rather than football. Later, after he moved to a school with football as the main event, his talent was soon revealed. Manchester United's scout in Northern Ireland quickly sent a telegram to head coach Busby: "I think I have discovered a genius for you this time."

So, at the age of 14, Best crossed the Irish Sea to Old Trafford. Manchester United was in the recovery period after the Munich air crash in 1958. Busby searched for young geniuses everywhere to rebuild his glory. However, Best Younger was homesick at the beginning. He only stayed 24 hours before running back to Belfast with his companions. However, his father was not at all comfortable and immediately notified Busby that he was sent back to Manchester United.

Not long after, the whole city of Manchester, from the tea-serving lady to the taxi driver, began to talk about this special boy.

In 1963, he represented the first team at home against West Bromwich, scoring the only goal in the game, helping Manchester United lead the opponent in the standings.

His legend begins here.

He was once the youngest European footballer, and for this, he needed women and alcohol...

In 1968, after winning three consecutive league titles, Best's reputation reached its peak - Manchester United defeated Benfica, the then European football overlord at Wembley Stadium, becoming the first English team to win the European Champions League, and Best himself scored the first record in the game. At the age of 22, he had become the "Mr. European Footballer"... In the memorial articles written by his admirers, these are wonderful moments of repeated talk.

But after that, the young Best and his teammates began to have differences. For those who have experienced the "Munich Air Crash", they have achieved their goal of reshaping the Manchester United dynasty, and they have lost the motivation to move forward, and they are all old. But Best is different. He is still young and needs to continue to succeed to consolidate the reputation he has gained. He is depressed by the team's aging and unprofitability. He is unwilling to decline together. He needs to relieve the pressure. He needs women and alcohol...

In order to make his body stronger, the thin Best thought of a way to fill beer. When Best signed a trial contract with Manchester United in 1961, he was considered too thin and could not cope with the huge physical consumption of professional football in the future. At that time, the general way to make a young player "strength" was to pour them a bottle of Guinness beer every day because it was rich in yeast and could aid digestion. Not long after, Best, a prophylactic who came out of the Puritan home, fell in love with this "tradition".

The wine culture tradition in the football world has a long history, and Manchester United in the 1960s was no exception. Best first got drunk when he was 16 years old. When he visited Switzerland with his team, he didn't drink much at this time, and he would fall down by just one liter of beer. Later, he would also add whiskey to orange juice during training, and because his reputation became more and more famous, everyone turned a blind eye to it.

In 1999, he was found to have cirrhosis; in 2002 he had a liver transplant, and a year later, he started drinking again and his second marriage broke down.

In 2004, he was sentenced to 20 months in prison for driving under the influence of drunkenness. On the 25th of the month, he died in the attention of countless people.

Neither football nor alcohol, it was the fundamental reason why Best became a social idol in the turbulent 1960s. His fashion taste and his romantic affairs were the most attractive things.

Bobby Charlton was a hero respected by parents at that time. The church, school and government all advocated his kindness and tidyness. But in the eyes of young people, he was a disgusting, submissive pug and poor taste of the country bun.

On the contrary, Best is a working class hero.

Best lived in the 1960s. In that era, people cheered for both reasonable and unreasonable rebellion, especially young people. Therefore, although Best's political views were right and Charlton leaned towards Labor, the two images were still the opposite in the minds of young people.

Some things are common today, but at that time, it was unheard of a player's courage to disdain tradition, and its impact far exceeds the stadium. People today seem to be tired of the swaggering and mavericks of young stars, but in the 1960s, as the first to do so, Best's actions were enough to lift himself into the budding "anti-traditional culture" spokesperson, whether he wanted to or not.

Best once commented on Charlton: "I think he is so perfect that he doesn't look real. I really hope he says 'fxxk', even once." Under Charlton's authority, Best spent three years depressed. On the eve of Charlton's farewell game, he threw eggs at the captain's poster in the bar.

Everyone said that without alcohol and women, Best would be imperfect because of perfection.

The opinions of Best were divided into two factions very early. Some people thought that he wasted his genius, while others thanked God for allowing him to see such beautiful performance. Best himself insisted that he was the only one who had the right to express his disappointment in his career that failed to last, but he was not disappointed.

In 2001, he published his autobiography "The Favorite" and then "Half Score", which was full of all kinds of uniqueness when he was young. This year, he published his last memoir "Shoveling and Break Shower", which recorded football content from the 1960s and 1970s.

Although Best may not associate his contempt for discipline and indulgence with his demand for freedom, and his indifference to responsibility and his pursuit of carnal enjoyment cannot be said to be an active resistance to social establishment, his life is indeed different from most people. This is not only the source of his genius, but also the source of his flattery, jealousy and blame.

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"Win West Ham United for George Best."

Ferguson just said this in the away locker room.

In the away game between the league, players from both sides wore black veils and observed 3 minutes of silence...

At the beginning of the game, Manchester United players seemed to have not recovered from the sorrow of losing Best. West Ham broke the deadlock in just 52 seconds of the opening game. Etherington made a diagonal pass from the left, and Haywood pushed the ball into the net from 12 yards on the left side of the penalty area and entered the net.

Manchester United tied the score in the 47th minute. Repka made a mistake in clearing the ball, Dong Fangzhuo made a straight pass, Rooney got rid of Gabiton from 12 yards in the middle and then shot hard. Although Carol blocked the ball, he failed to prevent the ball from entering the net. This is Rooney's seventh league goal this season.

Ten minutes later, Manchester United exceeded the score, Rooney took a corner kick from the right, and O'Shea headed the ball from 6 yards in front of the goal from the far away...

In the end, Manchester United won West Ham United 2:1 away.
Chapter completed!