George Best embarrassed a legendary pundit with a ‘Double nutmeg’

EXCLUSIVE: George Best got the better of a beloved pundit in a charity football match.

The Northern Irishman is undoubtedly one of the most talented players to have ever graced the football pitch. And he showed zero restraint in showing his Soccer Saturday colleague just how outstanding he truly was.

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George Best embarrassed Jeff Stelling

Jeff Stelling had the privilege of working alongside George Best on Soccer Saturday.

The popular broadcaster has opened up about what his experience with the icon in the studio was truly like, and what happened when he was given the daunting task of defending against the former Manchester United star.

In an exclusive interview with Sporf, the 70-year-old reminisced: “Bestie was one of the original Soccer Saturday panellists, along with Rodney Marsh, Frank McLintock, Clive Allen and Phil Thompson. By then, Bestie was front-page news rather than back-page news, but he’d been a wonderful player. I can remember him playing, and what a fantastic performer he was. I actually played against him in a charity match once. I was marking him, and he was past his heyday, but not that far past his heyday, and as he approached me, I’d unknowingly opened my legs, and of course, he nutmegged me, and by the time I’d turned around, he’d turned around and nutmegged me going back the other way. So, it was a double nutmeg.

“On the show, Bestie was pretty shy, but he was George Best. He was one of the greatest players the world has ever seen. I tell kids now: people will talk about Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as the best players in the world, George was up on their level for a short time — he was that good.

“When you booked George, you weren’t ever sure that he was going to turn up, so we used to have a substitute waiting just to replace George if he didn’t show. Former England captain, Alan Mullery, would come in every couple of weeks, and he would only appear if George didn’t turn up. The other couple of weeks, Nigel Spackman, ex-Liverpool, Chelsea and Rangers player, would do the same thing.

“As I say, such was George’s status, that my then boss, a brilliant fellow called, Vic Wakeling, would say, ‘I don’t care when George doesn’t turn up, he has a job as long as he wants one — a job for life’. And he did have a job for life, because he was taken from us far too soon.”

Jeff Stelling reveals the truth behind Chris Kamara’s hilarious mistake

Best isn’t the only massive personality Stelling has broadcast alongside.

The football aficionado has spent many a year creating TV magic with Chris Kamara.

It goes without saying that every fan was left in hysterics when the former player completely missed a red card while he was supposedly reporting on a match.

Now, Stelling has revealed the truth behind Kamara’s amusing error.

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