The first day I saw George Best – an unknown kid making up the numbers in a Belfast church match

Conjuring up childhood memories of the great George Best as 20th anniversary of his passing approaches

It’s hard to believe George Best has been gone for 20 years

It was never one of my clearest memories. But now it’s one of the Best. The very Best.

For it’s only now after a transatlantic conversation that I know I wasn’t imagining that I’d seen George Best playing football as a kid on his doorstep in the Cregagh estate in east Belfast.