He playing in the first 17 games of the 1926–27 season before being sold shortly before an FA Cup tie at Lincoln City to Grimsby Town due to financial difficulties.
Bestall is regarded as "perhaps the greatest name on Town's roll-call – a diminutive craftsman full of guile and possessed of outstanding constructive qualities".
This helped Bestall to earn his only England cap aged 34 years, 226 days against Northern Ireland on 6 February 1935.
Grimsby Town fans believed that Bestall was targeted by the Arsenal defenders in the hope of deliberately injuring him.
[5] Bestall played 427 league games for Town, only ever beaten by Keith Jobling and latterly John McDermott.