Calum Best: ‘I still drink, but not as I used to... I do it in moderation’
Son of the football legend shares the effects of growing up with his father’s alcoholism
Calum Best. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins
George and Calum Best
Calum Best shot to fame as the son of football legend, George Best.
Having spent his childhood in California with his mother, Angie, he soon made a name for himself on the London social scene when he moved to the UK in his twenties.
But he has been open in the past about the devastating effects his father’s alcoholism had on him.
“I spoke about it back then, but I found peace with a lot of it. Yes, it’s sad as hell, but it is what it is, and we’ve just got to do what we’ve got to do to and I hold nothing but pride now,” he reflects.
Moreover, he has sought solace working with Nacoa UK — the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. He says: “It’s not about putting down the drinker, but trying to represent for the kids of the drinkers. And that’s what I know well, so that’s what I’ll speak about.”
His father is considered one of Manchester United’s greatest ever football legends, and his statue stands tall outside Old Trafford Stadium, alongside Sir Bobby Charlton and Denis Law, with the trio hailed as the ‘Holy Trinity’.
Calum (42) says it’s ‘crazy’ that people still sing songs about his father there to this day, despite him having passing away in 2005 at the age of 59.
Sadly Bobby Charlton — the brother of former Ireland manager Jack Charlton — died last month, and Calum was on hand to pay his respects.
“I met Bobby through my old man. I went to his memorial game two weeks ago and watched them play. My dad’s old player friends where there, like Paddy Crerand and Wilf McGuinness and all these guys that he introduced me to when I was 10years-old.
“And now I see
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