File Under 'Excess', Part Six

Good and bad at games.

George Best
Job Footballer (principally Manchester United and Northern Ireland).
Vice “If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.” Every bit the Irish charmer, George loved beautiful women almost as much as he adored alcohol. When he made a comeback in the North American Soccer League, he said he made the decision after, “I’d seen an advert that said ‘Drink Canada Dry’.”
Greatest ‘Feat’ The oft-told story of the hotel porter who caught Best in bed with Miss World and the $20,000 he’d won at a casino who enquired “So where did it all go wrong?”
Price Of Pleasure Died of alcoholism-related cardio-vascular disease in 2005 aged just 59; this after having received a new liver in 2000.