BEST vs BEST WHO’S THE FIFTH-EST BEATLE?
WITH HIS matinee idol good looks, taste for the high life and rock’n’roll life style, Northern Irish foot baller George Best was of ten called “the fifth Beatle.” But his namesake – Liver pudlian drummer Pete Best – could also lay legitimate claim to that title after his two-and-a-half years playing with the Fab Four in Hamburg just before the group hit the 60s big time. Well now it’s time to climb aboard a Viz Magical Mystery Tour of head-to-head contests to discover just which of this Fab Two is the best Best. Scores will be awarded, and at the end they’ll be added together so that – in the words of the group’s “Best”-selling 1965 double-A-side with Day tripper – We Can Work It Out.
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on May Best, with his name only changed to its final form when he was a couple of weeks old. Although this mix-up doesn’t affect his surname in any way, it leaves a question mark hanging in the air, meaning that – unlike during Man Utd’s 1970 FA Cup fifth round match against Northampton Town, when George slammed SIX past goalie Kim Book in the space of 90 minutes – he doesn’t score quite as spectacularly in this opening round as he might have hoped.
