Spitting Image George Best Puppet for Sporting Legends Auction
Published May 9th, 2008
The Spitting Image puppet of George Best dressed in a Manchester United kit is to be auctioned off along with other personal sporting items at Bonham’s Sporting Legends auction in Chester on 4 June.
The rubber caricature, which has been on display in the National Football Museum at Preston, could make £5,000.
Belfast-born Best, a football legend for Northern Ireland and Man Utd, died in 2005 of multiple organ failure.
The former star’s green Northern Ireland international number 11 shirt is also expected to make up to £5,000.
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