Monthly Archives: April 2010
Messi The Child
Messi the Child For me there are two enduring images from the Nou Camp last night. Lionel Messi returning from one of his goals, smiling and shaking his head from side to side and Lionel Messi, when the game was over, clutching the ball in his hands, another huge smile on his face, while surrounded by his similarly joyful team mates. Pace, strength, control, vision all contributed to Messi’s four goals, but so did the spirit of this little big man who plays his best football when he enjoys it, …
A noble game
Next to a felled British hero, there is nothing quite like a great British escape. Arsenal was comprehensively outclassed by Barca for the whole of the first half and much of the second, and yet managed to force an equaliser with one penalty that most of Catalonia believed a major miscarriage of justice. Sitting where I was behind the Arsenal goal, it was impossible to tell, and the replays on the giant screen at the Emirates stadium didn’t help. Was it merely coincidental that all they showed was Cesc Fabregas …
