LOOKING BACK

Stuart Bolton recalls when the former Manchester United star sparkled briefly for the unheralded Hatters…

GEORGE Best’s very first appearance as a youth team player in the red colours of Manchester United was away against a Stockport County ‘A’ team in September 1961
Fourteen years later, in an example of the weird kind of symmetry that crops up in football occasionally, Best was to turn out in the all-white kit of the Edgeley Park club – a short and sometimes overlooked chapter in his otherwise illustrious career.
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