George Best

[C C Csiders]

George Best has been admitted to the ICU at London's Cromwel Hospital.

This could be bleak for George, if it is connected to his (self-inflicted) liver problems.

Link

Probably not the most appropriate Forum ("The Pub") in which to post this!

 

[Guest]

Sad.

Hate to say it, but if it is his liver then it's his own fault. He was warned when he had that transplant a few years ago, but he just couldn't stay off the booze

 

[lee_sufc]

When it comes to George Best, this setence from that link sums it all up:

After years of heavy drinking, the 59-year-old pledged but failed to give up alcohol after the transplant.

Hope he gets better though!!

 

[Wessex Blue]

Sorry this sounds insensitive but the man's an idiot. If his hospitalisation is drink related I have no sympathy at all. This is the second liver he's set about destroying.

People are quite literally dying before they can get a liver transplant and they waste one on a washed up old soak like Best.

 

[lee_sufc]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ Oct. 03 2005,15:11)]Sorry this sounds insensitive but the man's an idiot. If his hospitalisation is drink related I have no sympathy at all. This is the second liver he's set about destroying.

People are quite literally dying before they can get a liver transplant and they waste one on a washed up old soak like Best.

I don't think that's insesnsitive - it's 100% true and even he knows that (after watching a documentary a while back where he admitted it).

 

[canveyshrimper]

Quote[/b] (lee_sufc @ Oct. 03 2005,15:19)]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ Oct. 03 2005,15:11)]Sorry this sounds insensitive but the man's an idiot. If his hospitalisation is drink related I have no sympathy at all. This is the second liver he's set about destroying.

People are quite literally dying before they can get a liver transplant and they waste one on a washed up old soak like Best.

I don't think that's insesnsitive - it's 100% true and even he knows that (after watching a documentary a while back where he admitted it).

It is if he has a death wish now.
What a truly gifted footballer, I know genius & great are over used but Best was all of these, as a player, and the expression "flawed genius" really does apply to him.

 

[perth shrimper]

Insensitive to say, but....
Tough s%&t.
It's all your own fault.

Some unlucky bastid had to die to give you a second chance and you throw it back in the persons face.
Shame on you

 

[Its grim up north!]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ Oct. 03 2005,15:11)]Sorry this sounds insensitive but the man's an idiot. If his hospitalisation is drink related I have no sympathy at all. This is the second liver he's set about destroying.

People are quite literally dying before they can get a liver transplant and they waste one on a washed up old soak like Best.

I second that my friend!

 

[A loyal supporter]

Difficult one to call - it does appear that he's been foolish with his second chance but he's alcoholic.

After reading Paul Gascoignes autobiography I have to say I have a bit more sympathy with alkies than I used too. Its an illness just like any other.

 

[LITTLEMAN]

Sorry, but couldnt care if he dies. He had a chance a few years back with his Op, but he abused it and is paying the price for it now. Someone else could of had his liver, someone who needed it more than him

 

[Kenny]

what sickens me more then the fact that he has abused his 2nd chance at having a liver is that Sky Sports sacked Rodney Marsh but continued to pay Bestie despite him beating his wife up.

 

[perth shrimper]

So it appears a shrimperzone flower collection is unlikely if he goes to the great pitch in the sky

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Its grim up north! @ Oct. 04 2005,11:04)]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ Oct. 03 2005,15:11)]Sorry this sounds insensitive but the man's an idiot. If his hospitalisation is drink related I have no sympathy at all. This is the second liver he's set about destroying.

People are quite literally dying before they can get a liver transplant and they waste one on a washed up old soak like Best.

I second that my friend!

Thirded.

Even worse, it sends out a bloody appalling message / image about transplants... people are bound to ask themselves whether they should bother being organ donors if their organs are going to be wasted on alcoholics like Best.

Alcoholism isn't just like any other illness, incidentally. There is an absolute, 100% total cure for alcoholism... but it requires enormous strength and self-will to achieve it (I know this not from personal experience, but through a friend who has been through it and has come out the other side - and has been dry for nigh on a decade).

It is not, despite the protestations of Gazza or Best, an illness like cancer - one which may have no cure, and one which you may not be able to do anything about.

Rant over.

Whilst it's sad to see anyone ill and in hospital, my well of sympathy for Best has run completely dry, I'm afraid.

 

[Guest]

Ah well