Irish Daily Mirror

‘Drink ruined Best times with father’

- BY RYAN SMITH

Calum Best CALUM Best has opened up about football legend father George’s alcoholism in a bid to help others battling addiction.

The former Manchester United great from Belfast died in 2005 aged 59.

Calum, 38, was named an ambassador for charity National Associatio­n for Children of Alcoholics.

He told Sky News he wantd to “make positive changes for people dealing with the same thing I dealt with in my youth”.

He added: “For every good time I had with my dad there was always a bad time that sadly overshadow­ed it because of the drinking.”

“Having an alcoholic parent you try to figure all sorts of things out. And the answers are limited.”

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