What fullback Fairfax said...

AFTER the match, Northampton’s hapless defender Ray Fairfax said: ‘Why, oh why, did it have to happen to me? The only time I got close to him was when we went off at half-time and full-time. ‘On top of his baffling skill, Best had all the pent-up energy and frustration of four weeks out of football. And he unloaded the lot on to poor me. What can you do about such a man? We planned for this and that, but in the end it was all so meaningless. ‘Long before he had finished running us into the ground I felt physically sick. If I had to play against such a man every week I would hang up my boots and quit the game.’