Still I wonder how many World Cups a UK team would have won. Imagine Georgie Best in his prime on a UK team.
The European finalists are curiously unbalanced geographically - three of the teams hail from Western Europe and only one is from post-Communist Eastern Europe.
Regionalism rears its head in the World Cup.
Best's prime would have been the 1966, 1970, 1974 World Cups. England won anyway in 1966. In 1970, nobody was beating Brazil, including a UK team with Best. In 1974, England was lousy and didn't even qualify for the World Cup.