Best funeral

[R2B2]

As the country and the media gear up for the George Best funeral overload, Sky is already reporting that his body has been flown to Ireland in a private jet, into a military airfield, and that the security operation is going to be the biggest since the last royal visit there!!

Who's paying for all this?

I Feckin hope it is his family and not the taxpayer.......

Anybody have any relevant info??

 

[gypsy]

military airfield



its a big flattish place that you can land aeroplanes on



Hope this helps Rob

 

[R2B2]

LOl!

Glad to see yer awake Ed.......

 

[Cyclops]

As the country and the media gear up for the George Best funeral overload, Sky is already reporting that his body has been flown to Ireland in a private jet, into a military airfield, and that the security operation is going to be the biggest since the last royal visit there!!

Who's paying for all this?

I Feckin hope it is his family and not the taxpayer.......

Anybody have any relevant info??

Mummmmmmmmm who do you thinks paying for it



















Whats a couple of million when giving a footballing legend like best a good send off :t




If his family can all drink like he could, I just hope we anit picking up the bar tab It could bankurpt the country !!!!

 

[scruffygit]

Yep, on that very airfield. 'Tight security'? if you call being told not to stare out of the windows and not to be walking around when the coffin was driven out (it was lunch time FFS :bang: :bang: ) because it would be in bad taste then yes, security was tight.

A few local dignitories and their cling-ons were present plus the station execs (always keen to get their head up some politicians ar5e).

Seems an awful lot of fuss for an alcoholic, wife-beating, liver thief. Hate to think what would have happened for someone important.

 

[chuffmeister]

Yep, on that very airfield. 'Tight security'? if you call being told not to stare out of the windows and not to be walking around when the coffin was driven out (it was lunch time FFS :bang: :bang: ) because it would be in bad taste then yes, security was tight.

A few local dignitories and their cling-ons were present plus the station execs (always keen to get their head up some politicians ar5e).

Seems an awful lot of fuss for an alcoholic, wife-beating, liver thief. Hate to think what would have happened for someone important.

nice one scruff, Whens ya release date c7u8c7u8

 

[duncan]

good footballer or not the guy was committing suicide for the past 30 years ,don't forget that he promised to give up drinking so he could have a liver transplant ,robbed some other person of a chance to live ,,,,,,,,,not much sympathy from me mateys

 

[Pugwash]

I thought this was a thread to ask what the best kind of funeral was. Not your own, obviously.

 

[scruffygit]

nice one scruff, Whens ya release date c7u8c7u8

With all this PC borroxz, the sooner the better but officially not for another 9 months.

 

[Jaws]

Many harsh words have been said but no matter what the guy was a human being.. and loved by his family the same as you lot are loved by yours..
The fact he could at one time kick a ball about a cow field makes no odds.

Anyone who thinks footballers are special people are errrrr.. possibly special people ( in that patronizing way that folk speak of the mentally challenged ! LOL ! )

 

[Chunky Monkey]

hear hear John..........x

 

[Barryboy]

Who's paying for all this?

Anybody have any relevant info??

It will be paid for by the same people who took these costs for the Lady Di funeral, obviously. That's me and you, matey. And why not? We had the funeral of a serial adulterer paid for out of public funds so why not a serial piss-artist like George Best? George's funeral was small beer (pun intended) by comparison and I think you'll find that the Excise duty earned from the booze sales in the Belfast pubs the day of the funeral will more than cover the outlay.

If you think about it, you will probably find that George (and the "George Best" industry that he spawned) contributed an enormous amount of tax revenue to the Exchequer as, I suppose, did the "Lady Di" industry. Not only that, some of us got great pleasure from watching George humiliate and tear apart opposing football teams, just as we enjoyed watching Lady Di do exactly the same thing to the House of Windsor.

No, don't begrudge them the cost of a funeral from the public purse. They've earned it.