I'm disappointed with a lot of the comments I've read on this board today. George Best was a convicted drink driver and spent time in jail for it. How many people on this board have driven a motor vehicle over the speed limit and fobbed it off with a lame excuse "Well it was 3am and there was no one on the road." George Best paid his dues to society - have you? He was also an alcoholic, which most doctors and people in the recognise as an illness. But he didn't die from it. The BBC, usually a respected and balanced source of the news have been qouted as saying "[George Best's] condition deteriorated sharply last Friday with the development of a lung infection that led to internal bleeding. "He... was particularly susceptible to infection because of medicines he needed after his liver transplant." He didn't drink his transplanted liver away he died from an infection. Charges of assault of were never pressed which which would make Reynolds comments of "slapping people around" libelase and should be retracted with an apology. But to get to my point - what fans of football are lamenting is the beauty of Best playing football; in the same way that art fans would find Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel beautiful. We had never seen a footballer like Best and we've not since. Comparing his media coverage to Richard Burns' is futile. Best had no control over the fact the media loved to print a story about him, in the same way that Richard Burns had little control over the fact that they didn't. I don't like coming onto places like this and having to make a stand. George Best in my eyes was a flawed genious, a generous guy that gave too much of himself. Best didn't kill anyone but maybe himself and we all have to die. But he did give millions of people happiness. I hope your friends are as kind to you when you die and don't say things like "He was a miserable bastard that liked to slag people off on interent chat boards!" That would be a waste. Martyn