George Best's coffin has arrived back in Northern Ireland today draped in a Manchester United flag.
The soccer legend's remains were flown on a privately chartered plane into RAF Aldergrove, where his father Dickie and four sisters were among grieving family members waiting to meet it.
Best's son Calum and his agent Phil Hughes were on the flight with the coffin.
As relatives embraced near the runway, two pipers from the Field Marshall Montgomery pipe band played a lament at the head of the small party.
The body was put in the back of a hearse to be taken along a 20-mile route to the home of Best's father in the Cregagh Estate, East Belfast, where it will be kept overnight ahead of tomorrow's funeral when up to half a million people are expected to pay their final respects.
Belfast is preparing for huge crowds to turn out for the funeral tomorrow.
Hotel rooms in the city have become a precious commodity as tens of thousands of people prepare to make the pilgrimage to the player's home city to pay their respects.
Best will be given a final send off akin to a state funeral.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and Best's Manchester United team-mate Denis Law will be among the mourners.
