Meeting George Best

STUART BOLTON recalls the day he briefly met a football legend

A GLIMPSE OF FAME

ACOUPLE of days after one of the most famous – make that infamous – television interviews in British broadcasting history (“Terry, I like screwing, all right?”), I finally got to meet George Best.
In September 1990, Best was doing the rounds – hence his appearance on ‘Wogan’ – promoting his umpteenth autobiography ‘The Good, The Bad and The Bubbly’, along with the video release ‘Genius’; so named after the telegram that Belfast-...

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