Second Best: My Dad and Me

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I looked at this cycle recently when I was making this book and I thought to myself, when my dad got his massive fame his mum didn't know how to deal with those pressures so she started drinking"

Along the way, he seemingly became more famous for his exploits off-screen as he was regularly pictured with famous faces on his arm. I make fun of myself sometimes, I never followed the football path — I followed the partying path because I felt like I had to match something my dad did. But the older I got, the less I cared about that. I’m 40 now, I’ve built a lot of credible businesses and I’m a happy and healthy man. People need to stop with the sentimentalized pity for his son - the only person George Best loved was his self.I've noticed that footballers seem to have a special importance for immature men,football fans,especially tend to be an immature bunch and the game of football itself...its just a primitive us versus them contest. Barbara counters that the only mourners in the house were the people who were around George's hospital bed when he died. "If that's the way that Calum wants to interpret it - that his mother wasn't allowed into the house - so be it. But Angie Best wasn't top of my priority list, my father was," says Barbara, who also refutes Calum's claim that he didn't receive any of his father's possessions after his passing. He says he would love to have his original pair of football boots to pass on to his children. Calum, who's 33 and sports a bushy beard in the programme, pulls no punches. "He was there as a footballer; he was there as a legend but as a father he didn't play a role because my dad wasn't a f****** good dad," he says, adding that all he wanted was to be loved and for George to tell him he was proud of him but he doesn't remember it ever happening. "The hardest part was losing my dad and losing my dad in the public eye and my dad being loved by so many but not loving me," he says.

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Business owners taping bins shut in Lurgan as rubbish spills on to the street due to ongoing strike action I met him last week at the game and he said he’s going to be at all the home games — he randomly turned up at an away game too!” she says. Although people won’t know me for football, I have a heritage that is football and I’ve never figured out what I could do with that,” he says.

This isn’t just about me hitting up some guys I know with a load of dough saying, ‘Sponsor this team’, it’s about what can I do to get to know each player and build their confidence,” says Best. There were points where I was fearing for the dark side. I remember sitting with my mum at one point when I was in my late 20s and telling her I really was fearing for myself, and didn't know what age I was going to make it to. To say to your mother, 'I don't know how much longer I've got'– the poor woman must have been mortified. I knew there would be people from entertainment and sport, but then all of a sudden, I look around and saw we had Shannon Courtenay, world champion female boxer; Dwain Chambers [an Olympic sprinter], a legend in his field; Jade Jones [Taekwondo Olympic gold medallist], with how many Olympic golds?Calum is filmed returning to Stormont and to the Cregagh estate where thousands of people gathered in the rain to pay their last respects to his father at his funeral. "If there's a way to be sent off, that's the way to be sent off," he says. I had a chat with the psychologist beforehand and I said, ‘I’m not going to lie. I’m really nervous. I don’t know how I’m going to do this.’ Edwards, Chris (December 9, 2019). "Celebrity Ex on the Beach confirms Joey Essex and Love Island's Georgia Harrison on official line-up". Digital Spy. He says he had to organise his own taxi to take him and his mother in the cortege and Angie wasn't allowed into the Best home in Burren Way. "I broke down in tears when I was told my mum couldn't come in and pay her respects," he says. No football game, no cardio class, no weightlifting session, compares to the absolute abuse of running 5k with a gas mask on in the middle of the Jordanian desert,” he continued.

The TV personality and entrepreneur has joined a line-up of UK stars for the hit Channel 4 programme, which sees celebs put through an array of gruelling tasks in the Jordanian desert, led by an elite team of ex-special forces operators. Best's triumphant and tragic life has been charted in numerous books, with the man himself regaling readers over five of them, as well as dramas and documentaries. Next week, another arrives with George Best: True Genius, made with the blessing of his son, Calum. Negotiating the narrowest ledge with a drop of thousands of feet, I thought, 'Why am I here? I'm actually going to kill myself'. People have died trying to climb it. The adrenaline rush at the summit was something else, and the experience was amazing, scary and incredibly worthwhile all at the same time."The film starts poignantly, with the footage of Best's interview with Rodney Marsh on TalkSport in 2005. His complexion is tinged with yellow and his face gaunt. Read More Related Articles Find sources: "Calum Best"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Calum, who has had his own history of alcohol and drug dependency, revealed that he was anxious about entering the SAS camp, but believes his past experiences helped him through it.