As Splott Parker says, different times, different people !!
George Best, was a footballer in a “POP STAR AGE”
Today, it would have been the other way around, he would have been surrounded by similar star players to him, so yes, he would have survived (for Best, see Beckham (((not in playing ability
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To see PELE, in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, was most football fans dream.
Whereas, he’d been savagely kicked out of the 1966 World Cup, here was a man, at 30 years of age, with dodgy knees (no super ops in those days), taking on and beating the worlds best.
No one will convince me differently.
Today’s footballers, are yesterday’s pop stars