LONDON: Manchester United return to Benfica’s Stadium of Light today for the first time since George Best gave a stunning display for his club there and, by a cruel twist of fate, less than two weeks after his death.
United’s first European game since Best died will have an emotional resonance for older United fans, who have never forgotten how the Northern Ireland winger, then just 19, tore Eusebio’s great Benfica side apart in a 5-1 European Cup quarter-final victory in 1966.
