Best’s first pitch in WWI truce link

THE pitch where George Best first kicked a ball is to be twinned with the site of the 1914 football Christmas truce.

Cregagh Green in Belfast will be linked with Flanders Peace Field in Belgium, where Allied and German troops came together in 1914 to play football during a pause in First World War hostilities.

A spokesman for the National Children’s Football Alliance said: “The peace pitch not only commemorates war, but celebrates peace.

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Gibson, 30, who also previously played for Manchester United and Everton, knocked a taxi’s wing mirror off in the latest incident, but carried on and smashed into parked cars as he drove to Sunderland’s training ground.

His grey 4x4 ended up on the pavement and the road was strewn with debris.

The taxi driver had followed him, thinking Gibson would stop to swap details.

But the footballer carried on for some distance until the final series of collisions.

Chairman of the bench David Randall said there was a suspicion the former Republic of Ireland footballer had come off the main road and was using a back road through an estate after the initial collision.

The magistrate said the offence was aggravated by the length of time their brand new pink and white footie outfit this week. And jaw-dropping beauty Amber Sienna posed up a storm in a body paint version of the new strip, which saw her perky nipples clearly poking through the bright pink paint. over which it occurred, and his failure to stop or report the damage caused to the taxi.

He said: “Mr Gibson, this is the second offence in less than three years.”

Aggravating factors included the damaged caused to the parked vehicles.

Mr Randall added: “We feel this aggravates it into the custody band.”

Sunderland terminated Gibson’s contract after he was charged following the March 17 crash.

Rebecca Laverick, prosecuting, said an initial roadside breath test recorded 105mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcg.

When he was formally tested again at a police station he was found to have 95mcg of alcohol per 100ml and was charged using that figure.

Gibson, from Hale, Cheshire, was handed an interim disqualification and granted bail ahead of sentencing on May 25.