Fun fact - when growing up in Liberia in the 1970s, George Weah was a childhood City fan. United fans tried to claim it was a bollocks story once he'd signed for us but his comments can be traced back to an interview in a football magazine when he was still playing for AC Milan which was years before we signed him.
As for his time at City, well sadly it was short-lived but he was in the twilight of his career and we were never going to see the best of him. I do think Joe Royle - as well as he served our club as both player and manager - has to take some of the blame for that. The story goes that Weah politely tried to make a suggestion at half-time of one particular game and Royle told him to fuck off! He seemed to struggle with foreign egos, falling out with Weah, Wanchope, and Kinkladze at various times during his managerial career with us.
