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Best continued to be selected for Northern Ireland throughout the 1970s, despite his fluctuating form and off pitch problems. Dutch captain Johan Cruyff commented: "What he [Best] had was unique, you can't coach it". [88] Your View: Best a true legend of football". The Telegraph. 24 November 2005. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 21 June 2017. a b c d e Wilson, Mike (9 March 2003). "Caught in Time: George Best joins Hibs, 1979". The Sunday Times. London. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020 . Retrieved 26 October 2010. The banknote was issued to commemorate the death of former Northern Ireland and Manchester United player George Best (1946-2005). See also Bradford, Sarah (1989), King GeorgeVI, London, UK: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, p.149, ISBN 978-0-297-79667-1a b c "Was Georgie the Best?". BBC Sport. 25 November 2005. Archived from the original on 25 June 2016 . Retrieved 12 October 2018. a b Ramsay, J.H.R. (28 May 1994), "A king, a doctor, and a convenient death", British Medical Journal, 308 (6941): 1445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.308.6941.1445, PMC 2540387, PMID 11644545 (Subscription required) In Australia, George opened the first session of the Australian Parliament on the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia. [32] In New Zealand, he praised the military values, bravery, loyalty, and obedience to duty of New Zealanders, and the tour gave New Zealand a chance to show off its progress, especially in its adoption of up-to-date British standards in communications and the processing industries. The implicit goal was to advertise New Zealand's attractiveness to tourists and potential immigrants, while avoiding news of growing social tensions, by focusing the attention of the British press on a land few knew about. [33] On his return to Britain, in a speech at Guildhall, London, George warned of "the impression which seemed to prevail among [our] brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors." [34]