Alan's comment about Georges modesty is 100% spot on. I have an American friend who knows nothing really about football but he met George many years ago when George had a bar in California. Apparently after knowing and drinking with him for 6 months he asked Georgie what he had done before owning the bar. George just replied that he had once been a professional sportsman. Nothing more, nothing less. My friend was amazed when I gave him a book about Georgie.

@Basman59

4 ай бұрын

Bestie's Bar in Hermosa Beach - been there so many times. Flew in from Denver once simply to watch an FA Cup Final in the 80s. Some lost nights shipping a few in there I can say.

What a fabulous player Alan Hudson was. As a United fan I would have loved to have had him playing for my team, as well as Peter Osgood.

I watched Alan Hudson’s debut for Stoke City and he was shear class. He was one of the greatest players of seventies. He would be worth £100 million plus now. I think he played his best football at Stoke under Tony Waddington. I along with thousands of Stokies fortunate to have watched him at his peak will always cherish the memories. Long live Alan Hudson!!!

@keithdukes5990

3 ай бұрын

I'll second that 100% my good man!!!

Feeling quite emotional listening to the great Alan Hudson talking about George ❤

Hudson was a great player and nice guy.

George was the best ever full stop

George Best. Different planet. Could do anything with that ball - anytime - anywhere. Never be another like him. A true one-off. The measure by which all others are judged, The Shakespeare of football.

Well said Alan.George was United's greatest player alongside Bobby.No debate.Just fact!

My dad used to say "the good uns know who the gooduns are". Alan Hudson was a good un and he just summarized for me what is missing in today's game and what Best had more than any other player "magic".

This says so much avout Alan hudson. Top man too

Star man Alan ,great memories .

honest fact from alan who played for a different club i first saw him aged 14 and for the next 5 years it was worth the ticket money to see him warm up greatest ever uk player just read what pele said about george sadly missed .

Honest and forthright, and what a player. Back when football was played by players with real talent not today's prima donna's

Besty was a genius with the ball, a genius at pulling birds, and booze beat him in the end.

@peterh1353

3 ай бұрын

What stunted his career was a cartilage op. Slowed him right down.

It was tough being on the North Bank at West Ham,when George put Frank Lampard on his arse.

great interview and video, well said Alan, well done Tony

I spoke with Ron Harris he said George was the best he played against

@sicksquid3258

4 ай бұрын

'Chopper' tried to break Besties legs in an FA cup match at OT,Bestie although caught by Ron wriggled free and scored! GB was a once in a lifetime genius.RIP proper legend.

Alan Hudson, top Man George was the Best. Cheers ✨⚽🥂❤️

For those people out there that never saw George play he was definitely a genius ... The real goat in my opinion who never got the off field help that today's players get !!! Played on shit pitches but still produced magic ....

Alan Hudson knew what he was talking about with Bestie....& he never mentioned the pitches he played on ...they were NOT like the billiard tables they play on now...they were in Winter a mud bath ...and yet his ball control and his dribbling skills were unsurpassed by the likes of Ryan Giggs or David Beckham....a genius who was not really protected from the big world around him....no family here or close friends from back home in NI very sad about George Best..... May he RIP ....🥰🥰🥰

Alan Hudson was a Rolls Royce as a player

George is on a par with all the greats.There are not many either!

Different era now where maverick individual talent, the likes of Gazza & LeTiss are hard to accommodate and they find themselves sitting on the bench.

I said that Best was as good as Messi and would be a better player in the modern game ,the tackling , the pitches and that skillfull players are protected nowadays ,someone replied that defenders are bigger ,stronger and fitter so that Best would not survive, i suppose you had to see him .Im a leicester fan and watched that man utd team at Filbert street ,happy days Best was pure magic , no premier player comes anywhere near him ,he was that good.

We never saw the best of best,for obvious reasons.He was still the best.

Bale 🎉🎉 best was on another planet 🎉😢

Some bloke thinks giggs is best Utd player ever 😂😂

Trouble is talent is not enough.

Best would have been 36 when Bingham's team got to Spain in 82. He could have been there.

@johnmccadden9963

4 ай бұрын

The team wanted him there. The management didn't.

@67lionsoflisbon37

4 ай бұрын

@johnmccadden9963 I was 14 at the time. I would love to have seen him at that World Cup. It was a great tournament. Brazil, Zico, Socrates etc, France v West Germany 3:3................. Great memories. Best would have at home.

@gunternetzer9621

3 ай бұрын

@@johnmccadden9963 I saw him play in a testimonial that year and he was well past it - the man was an alcoholic by then.

First rule of interviewing: Aks youre question, and then be quiet and listen. If the guy is talking and you're gong "yeah, yeah, no, right ..." then it's distracting. Just nod encouragingly, but keep quiet.

he wud have been the best u k player !!!

Ha ha I was in a pub on kings road many years ago when the police raided it to search us lads thinking we would have drugs on us but nobody did but he was in there and they searched him and his son had put his drugs in Hudson pocket and he got nicked 😂

N.Ireland's best ever player was Peter McParland - a man who scored 5 goals in a World Cup finals, and the first to score winning goals in both English domestic cup finals. Maybe McParland should have sh*gged around and lived the celebrity life in London, then people might have bigged him up a little more?

Giggs was - in a way - a better player for Man Utd because he played more games and won more things. He wasn't a better player at his peak but that isn't the point. Bale was as good an athlete I have seen on a football field. Scored goals that Best couldn't. Both unplayable.

@davidalexander2607

3 ай бұрын

I will say this Bale scored some great goals but very one dimensional. For every brilliant goal Bale scored mostly from pace and long range shots Best could score 20 Bale could never emulate .

Alan Hudson said about George Best was true George was extra special

So impressed by Hudson..I remember watching him as a kid in the early 70's, he was a great player..his tribute to Best is beyond..damn..bow to Alan..

@peterh1353

3 ай бұрын

Hudson was the best player of the mid 70s. If he was French he would have had a 100 caps.

@gunternetzer9621

3 ай бұрын

@@peterh1353 He had an attitude problem and I'm a Chelsea fan. He thought that no one could tell him anything about playing which at international level is no good, which was a problem with the 'flair' generation as a whole. Ramsey and Revie weren't the greatest by any means but they could sense trouble.

George was by a mile the greatest ever UK footballer. As Alan says here, he never had the chance on the international stage, but I also feel that it's often forgotten how few matches were filmed in George's day, he was filmed 6 or 7 times a season at the most, therefore so many of his magical moments exist now only in the memories of those who were present to see them. Modern players are filmed 40+ times a season, so it's much easier to 'justify' how good they are.

@bettebleu6065

8 жыл бұрын

+ysgol3 he was European footballer of the year..sadly he played with a man U team on it;s last legs..

@mizofan

7 жыл бұрын

He could have created his chance with N.Ireland, as they reached world cups in 58 and 82 and did well; he wasn't a great leader or team player and only scored 9 goals for his country. the most excitingly talented British player, yes, but not the best overall, since he underachieved, lacked dedication, let down United and was past it in his mid-late 20s, playing for the likes of Cork and Jewish Guild. Though playing with Charlton and Law, he never reached an FA Cup final, won 2 league titles (for the first he was not the star player) and a European cup, was sent off in the Intercontinental cup. Charlton and Busby said Duncan Edwards was best in their time at United. Charlton, John Charles were great players and Kenny Dalglish was probably the most important for a club in English history. People see Best highlights on youtube but don't see his poor games and failures

@ysgol3

7 жыл бұрын

I accept that all this is a matter of opinion, though even the great George would have struggled in 1958, being only 12 at the time. Even the United team which won the European Cup in 1968 wasn't that good, without Best they were nothing. All I can say is that, like you, I stand by my opinion. George could run, head, tackle brilliantly (often overlooked, Busby said George was the best tackler in the club), shoot, dribble, cross and was as brave as a lion - he NEVER flinched from a 50/50 ball, even against the hardest players like Harris, Giles and Morrissey. (Not Tommy Smith of course, he was just a bag of wind). So I agree with Alan Ball, Jimmy Greaves, Denis Law and so many others - George was the Greatest !!!

@steaks652

6 жыл бұрын

mizofan . Load of bollocks, Best was fucking magic, a total one off genius. He had it all in a time when useless refs took no action against assassins trying to injure him, he wouldn't go down unless he had to but would soon get up and was brave enough to give it back. Best number one so said Pele.

@garrywood8836

5 жыл бұрын

If a 25year old best was playing today he'd be scoring a hatrick every week with all the protection the modern day footballer gets.

George Best was the greatest footballer I ever saw in the flesh - and I saw most: Charlton, Law, Osgood, Ball, Bremner, Giles, Greaves, Charlie George, Moore, Hurst, all those greats and more.

Ryan Giggs was avery good player and he did it a very high level with Man Utd over a much longer period than George Best ; but for anyone who saw Best play with Manchester Utd in the 60s ( as I did ) , then you'd soon appreciate that George Best was a class above Giggs. Ryan himself , said during a recent interview that he was not as good as George Best .

@best349

8 жыл бұрын

+ThefightingCelt Ryan Giggs was shite Roy Keane made him

@Jackie-ji2sj

4 ай бұрын

Giggs was extremely lucky to be in great team after great team. Not a genius, just a fast player.

You know as time goes on George best will just get better and better, just like the Beatles their music in 100years will be even greater than it is now. That time from 67 to 71 was unmatched at old Trafford with the 3 musketeers at their peak. Law and Charlton and l was there to see it.😎😎😍

I take my hat off for Alan's tribute and honesty somehow it's difficult to explain why it was so good at that time. I use the analogy like a great bottle of wine 150 years to reach perfection then it might get corked and go off after a couple of years and that's football in this country. Not saying it was perfect between 1953 and 1970...but it just was Better😎

@Gerard_2024

5 жыл бұрын

@Garry Wood ... well said and eloquently expressed.

@keithdukes5990

3 ай бұрын

I'll second that sir! 😊👍

George Best had everything as a footballer ability wise, he is on the same level as Pele, Cruyff, Maradona and Messi... he didn't have their longevity or achievements though... but Best in his best years from about 1965-72 roughly could walk into ANY team in history past or present.

@panchovilla1680

4 ай бұрын

Except Pele Best IS still above the others.

@keithdukes5990

3 ай бұрын

​@@panchovilla1680100%😊👍

Davis Beckham = shit footballer & only famous cause he married the worst spice girl

@mizofan

7 жыл бұрын

A very good player but overrated because of his extra fame from looks and marrying a Spice Girl.

@best349

7 жыл бұрын

mizofan bang on average player who was a one track pony with a free kick, couldn't dribble, couldn't head, used one foot BUT hey he married a spice girl and had the best PR team in history around him = manufactured bullshit

@markmorrid8144

4 ай бұрын

Great free kick great crosser of a ball but not one of the greats at all .

@thomasandersen6719

3 ай бұрын

@@best349 Clown

@joekavanagh7171

3 ай бұрын

He symbolised the triumph of hype over experience.

Hudson is wrong, Best was not the best player in the world. Exciting and talented, sure, but underachieved and overrated. He only scored 9 goals for his country and N.Ireland qualified and did well in world cups soon before and after Best. He wasn't a great leader or team player and was past it in his mid-late 20s.

@tigerarmyrule

6 жыл бұрын

Underachieved? Yes. Overrated? No. The thing about Best is that literally everyone who played with or against him - with the exception of Jackie Charlton - rates him the greatest player they have faced or seen. Danny Blanchflower, a deeply intelligent man, got it spot on when he said that Best's appeal was aesthetic. He just captivated the crowd like no other player in England has done. Football has been called the working man's ballet and if it is Best was its Nijinski or Nureyev. its golden god.

@Clampers

3 ай бұрын

You need to turn your lights on!!!

@joekavanagh7171

3 ай бұрын

Please watch his highlights, and I don't mean a 10-minute KZread clip

@gunternetzer9621

3 ай бұрын

@@steaks652 He's right, Di Stefano, Puskas, Cruyff, Maradona - very many ahead of him.

@williamparker6473

3 ай бұрын

Simply the best. Xoxoxoxoxo