Oh my Lord, what's going on? I can understand worshipping your sporting heroes, etc., but isn't this going just a tad too far? People are camping out so that they can be among the 30,000 people who will be admitted to the grounds of Stormont for George Best's funeral. The other hundreds of thousands of expected mourners will have to make do with lining the funeral route. And, if you can't make it to the funeral, we're getting live coverage on UTV, RTE, BBC, and probably a couple of the news channels too.
If you have no idea who George Best was, here's his obituary from the Daily Telegraph. However, the combination of this from Sky News this morning, "He was a footballing genius" who "squandered two livers" and this headline from the Belfast Telegraph gives a great summary of who Best was: "Ex-wives to join girlfriend at the funeral". (Thanks Carrie.)
