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Immortal: The Approved Biography of George Best by Duncan Hamilton – review
After a couple of decades spent examining the beautiful game from the angle of sober realism, top-of-the-range sports writing seems to have taken a 180-degree turn and decided that romanticism was what the public wanted all along.
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This is one of the themes of David Peace's Bill Shankly novel Red or Dead, which reimagines football as a kind of primitive, incantatory rite, with the manager as its arch-druid. It is also, albeit in a different way, one of the subtexts of Duncan Hamilton's jumbo-sized "approved" treatment of George Best.
The reek of embrocation, the crack of the broken leg and the snap of the ruptured achilles tendon are all gone, or at any rate shoved to the margins, and in their place comes a billowing cloud of glory.
Over the past 30 years there have been countless retellings of the Best story, several written, or at any rate offered, by Best himself.
One of the most enduring is