Been even wetter than usual in Belfast for the last few days. Sometimes its like the air has turned to liquid! I don’t mind rain. You can’t live in Belfast if you mind rain. I have a lot of time for the Rob McKenna character from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The amount of rain over the last few days however is just taking the piss! I’ve been thinking of buying a new motorbike. It might be more prudent, given the bloody weather, to get a boat instead.
It was George Best’s funeral this morning here in Belfast and it was chucking it down. Really chucking it down. Large numbers of people still turned out to welcome him home and say goodbye for a final time. Football was always second fiddle to cricket and rugby for me. Goalkeeper was my thing when I did play football. However it was impossible to grow up in East Belfast and not be immersed in the legend of George Best. I never saw him play live but from the video that remains he really was something special. Every now and then sport throws up people who are gifted and appear to be just that bit better than those around them. George Best was one of them. From my lifetime the only other person that springs to mind in the same ilk is David Gower when batting. I’d rather have watched David Gower score a stylish 50 runs than other batsmen plod their way to 100 or more. Sport should be entertainment. Gower, and Best from what I’ve seen, provided it.
We could do with more like them.