People aren't grieving for the man he became, they are mourning the boy he was and the man he could have been. The older ones certainly remember the way it was at the height of his fame, when if you take the hysteria there is for David Beckham and magnify it by ten, that is what it was like for George Best. He was the embodiment of the dreams of every little boy who kicks a ball up against the garage wall. And every little girl who had just discovered boys were actually, quite nice... What a lot of people are mourning, if you like, is the proof that nobody can have it all and survive it. The dream is dead.