24-03-2021, 18:39
The trouble with applying the standards of today to another era entirely is that we can find reasons to hate everybody. Caravaggio was a murderer, should we destroy his paintings? JFK was into anybody's pants he could get into, and was a rich dick who started the persecution of the Cuban people that continues today - let's forget any good impulses he had, or maybe not.
Frank obviously followed where his cock led, his lifestyle differed little from rock stars in the late sixties through the seventies. His attitudes came from those times too, by the sound of it. I doubt I'd have loved George Best. Alex Higgins threatened to have people killed and meant it. But like them, Frank Worthington was meant to play the game he loved. Come Saturday afternoon he became himself and thousands loved to watch him.
Had he been born 50 years on, he might even have been a young man now with very different attitudes, but I can certainly guarantee that a lot of us would be hoping that an England manager might find the courage to play him and Jack Grealish in the same team.
With or without syphilis he was better than anything old Shanks had got then, his was an outrageous talent, at which he worked hard, that would have flourished in any era.
Frank obviously followed where his cock led, his lifestyle differed little from rock stars in the late sixties through the seventies. His attitudes came from those times too, by the sound of it. I doubt I'd have loved George Best. Alex Higgins threatened to have people killed and meant it. But like them, Frank Worthington was meant to play the game he loved. Come Saturday afternoon he became himself and thousands loved to watch him.
Had he been born 50 years on, he might even have been a young man now with very different attitudes, but I can certainly guarantee that a lot of us would be hoping that an England manager might find the courage to play him and Jack Grealish in the same team.
With or without syphilis he was better than anything old Shanks had got then, his was an outrageous talent, at which he worked hard, that would have flourished in any era.