George Best: A Memoir: A unique biography of a football icon: The Perfect Gift for Football Fans: A unique biography of a football icon perfect for self-isolation - Hardcover

Michael Parkinson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1473675731 ISBN 13: 9781473675735

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018

Synopsis

Michael Parkinson and George Best faced one another countless times in interviews. Their conversations were mutually respectful, even intimate, yet always brimming with searching questions and revealing answers.

The great Manchester United and Northern Ireland attacker - one of the few sports personalities to merit the term 'iconic' - was almost always candid, lucid and self-effacing. Alcoholism had him in its grip from an early age, affecting the love affairs that fed the tabloid headlines, but there was far more to Best than booze and birds.
In George Best: A Memoir, Michael Parkinson draws upon decades of award-winning journalistic experience to re-evaluate a remarkable footballer and a damaged friend. The book weaves together recollections of when the 'the fifth Beatle' ensured it was Manchester, not London or Liverpool, which made the Sixties swing; of Best enjoying a carefree kickabout with the Parkinsons' children in the family garden; and selected transcripts from their endlessly fascinating interviews.

'Where did it all go wrong?' is the punchline to a famous Best story. George Best: A Memoir provides Michael Parkinson's considered response to the question while bringing fresh insight into the footballing genius that made Best one of the immortals and the self-destructive side of his character.

About this title

Book Description:

A unique biography of football icon, George Best, written by journalist and broadcaster, Michael Parkinson

About the Author:

Born in Yorkshire, Michael Parkinson left school at sixteen with the ambition to play cricket for Yorkshire and England and to write about cricket for the Manchester Guardian. Although, he didn't manage to fulfil the first half of his ambition, he has since become one of the most successful journalists of his generation. He wrote a sports column for The Sunday Times for fifteen years and has also written for the Telegraph. He is also a legendary TV and radio presenter - his long-running chat show Parkinson was hugely popular for many years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1473675731
• ISBN 13: 9781473675735
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224