Best's most expensive drink yet

13 April 2012

George Best bought his wife Alex a new £53,000 car to apologise for his drinking bender last week. And he joked yesterday: 'That was an expensive drink.'

The black Mercedes ML 55 AMG people carrier came with a personalised number plate.

The alcoholic football legend, who had a life-saving liver transplant last year, also visited his doctor for the first time since falling off the wagon and insisted he was fine. The visit comes after Best, 57, embarked on a number of drinking binges culminating in a pub brawl with a photographer in his local on Saturday.

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