George Best, when the curtain was falling on his career, was tempted across the Irish Sea to play for Cork Celtic. If you wanted to see a United match, you had to go on the boat over to Manchester. As Jimmy Barry-Murphy, who played for Cork Celtic in 1973, remarks in the documentary, football in Cork was going through one of its perennial boom-bust cycles. The Cork Celtic players didn’t have much interaction with him before matches. George Best playing for Cork Celtic against Bohemians at Turners Cross.

Source: Irish Examiner December 24, 2025 10:17 UTC