{"id":593528,"date":"2025-11-25T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593528\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:36:18","slug":"george-bests-name-should-remain-on-belfast-city-airport-despite-domestic-violence-claims-says-former-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593528\/","title":{"rendered":"George Best\u2019s name should remain on Belfast City Airport despite domestic violence claims says former wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u201cWhen he wasn\u2019t drinking he was the most fantastic, charming, caring, and loving man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Belfast City Airport was renamed after George Best in 2006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/elfast_Cityairport.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Belfast City Airport was renamed after George Best in 2006<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">George Best\u2019s name should remain on Belfast City Airport says his former wife Alex Best, despite domestic violence claims against the legendary footballer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Alex, who was in Belfast this week for a private visit to mark the 20th anniversary of George\u2019s death, hopes his home city can honour the best side of his character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen he wasn\u2019t drinking he was the most fantastic, charming, caring, and loving man.\u201d Belfast City Airport was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[172067,18463,98,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-593528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-george-best","9":"tag-george-best-belfast-city-airport","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115612260512140051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}