George Best - ever the joker. I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes. Best on the blood transfusion after his liver transplant. He's not George Best, but ...

Still, Best remained serially superlative even when carrying debilitating injuries, and the Reds reached another European Cup semi-final in the spring of 1969 before bowing out controversially to ...