[Horatio]

It's sad news indeed, and I never like to see someone suffering (unless they're a Tottenham supporter) but he really has infuriated me over the past few years. So he significantly shortens his life through a lot, and I mean a lot, of drinking. In 2002 he gets a liver transplant, and only a few months afterwards he's seen carrying bags loaded with beer cans around. He started to drink himself to death again, despite taking a liver somebody else could have had - someone who would have actually been able to get over drinking. Now I know that Alcoholism is a disease and INCREDIBLY difficult to treat, however much money is thrown at it. George Best is clearly someone whose disease proved incurable and it's very sad for him and everyone who loved him that most of his life has been dominated by the effects of this horrible illness. But it still makes me so angry that he took a liver that could've gone to someone else. I won't comment on the oh-so-popular opinion that its a waste of good NHS money, because, thank god, he's in a private hospital and is paying his own way.

Fact is, Best made himself this way. Even at 25 drink was getting him into trouble. He'd miss training sessions or even matches, and got himself arrested a fair few times. Alcohol turned him from an incredibly talented, healthy young man into a frail shadow of himself. It's truly a sad case, and I'd be upset if he died because he was a great player in his day, but I still felt quite miffed when this whole thing came to light.