Ranked! The 10 best Northern Irish players of all time

It really couldn’t have been anyone else, could it? “Maradona good, Pele better, George Best,” as the locals tend to say about the footballing icon.

Whether he was better than Diego Maradona and Pele remains to be seen, but there was no doubting that Best possessed the ability of both. Criminally, Best was only capped 37 times for Northern Ireland, scoring nine times, and is considered one of the best players never to feature at a World Cup.

But he was always going to top this list, which despite just how few caps he earned, demonstrates just what a talent he was.