Best and Edwards av Gordon Burn

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<p><b>¿Immaculately written, inspiring, sad and elegiac.¿ <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><b><br>With a new introduction by David Peace</b><br><br>Duncan Edwards played his first game for Manchester United at the age of fifteen and Walter Winterbottom, then England manager, called him ''the spirit of British football''. On ¿15-a-week, Edwards was the most prized of the Busby Babes. Then in February 1958 came Munich.<br><br>Half a decade later George Best represented United reborn. ''Georgie'' of the boutiques and dolly birds; ''El Beatle'' of the European Cup in ''68 and European Player of the Year; in the opinion of Pele, the most naturally talented footballer that ever lived. Retired at 27 and reduced to the role of Chelsea barfly and tabloid perennial; George, where did it all go wrong?</p>