'What happens if Argentina do get knocked out or lose the final? I guess the BBC may still have all the black-bordered presentation material around from after the Queen died?'
Lionel Messi scored for Argentina to help their win against Australia, but from the BBC’s coverage of the game you’d have thought he was their only player.It speaks volumes for the state of modern football discourse that I feel the need to say this, but that isn’t going to stop me.. They were both wonderful players but neither are in their prime. That’s just ageing. But I obviously recognise that they are among the finest players ever to have played the game.
was at a level that started to sound shrill. This was a match that exploded to life in its last 20 minutes, a fascinating game which nearly ended in what would have been one of the World Cup’s great comebacks. There wasn’t any need to turn this into a eulogy for one player. There was something galling about seeing every other player being implicitly reduced to that of a bit-part player in the story of somebody else’s life.
There is something unusual about the way Messi plays the game. His brilliance comes from elevating the simple things – positional awareness, laser-focused finishing, ball control, reading the game, the list goes on – to a different plane. He remains capable of brilliant, game-changing moments, but it is that engine of consistency that underpins all those moments and articulating that can be difficult and time-consuming.
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