[2] He has credited Moore and fellow West Ham players Harry Redknapp and Billy Bonds with helping him deal with racist abuse.

[2] As one of England's first black footballers, Best was regularly targeted with racist chanting from the terraces,[3] but eventually became a fan favourite at Upton Park.

He was a strong, powerful player with the skills of the traditional English centre forward, tough to dispossess when he had the ball and good in the air.

[5] Best also played in the Dutch Eredivisie for Feyenoord where he was generally viewed as a failure, scoring only 3 goals in 23 matches,[6] and in the United States and Canada for Tampa Bay Rowdies, Toronto Blizzard and Portland Timbers of the North American Soccer League.

While playing for Tampa Bay in Soccer Bowl '75, he scored an 88th-minute goal to secure the Rowdies' first NASL championship in a 2–0 victory over Portland Timbers.