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Let's imagine that on the 1st of January 1946, Dickie Best loses his job in Belfast. He decides that, with a baby on its way, his best option is to take a job on Liverpool docks, currently understaffed due to the still uncompleted demob of British soldiers. His pregnant wife Ann acompanies him.

He settles in the Loyalist working class Tory district of Toxteth, renting a two-up two-down on Yanwath Street.

His son George is born on the 23rd of May, 1946, at thier home.

What happens next? what are the consequences for the history of Football, and even the history of Britain? Would George have played for England?
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