second best

The Bills had won seven in a row against Miami but were second best from the start as the Dolphins ran out 30-13 winners in an eye-opening result - and performance.

It was mentioned to us that we were second best as a group because we kept coming second to Manchester United.

He remained bullish about his Freedom Party's performance: "I would naturally rather have seen more seats... but we have still had our second best result."

Is it too simplistic to point to the disallowed goal as evidence of Celtic's misfortunes, or were they just second best against the side seventh in Portugal's top flight?

After all, there were less than 10 minutes remaining and the Spaniards had survived a flurry of missed chances before drawing level in a game in which they were second best.