George Best refuses to be a football player.
George Best ( 22 May 1946 -- 25 November 2005 ) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team . The Irish Football Association described him as the `` greatest player to ever pull on the green shirt of Northern Ireland '' . Best was one of the inaugural 22 inductees into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 .