The view that a footballer whose brilliance defies reality might be akin to Jimmy Carr,David Cameron’s dad or Gary Barlow is difficult to bearThe privacy campaigner Max Mosley used to have a kind line in mischievous devil’s advocacy. whether footballers were such immensely meaningful role models, he inquired of the tabloids who used that position as justification for various stings, or is there not an argument for protecting impressionable youngsters from hearing of their misdeeds,by publishing nothing whatsoever about them?He wasn’t being entirely serious, of course, and nor am I when I confess to wondering dolefully what I am about to find myself forgiving Lionel Messi for. What financial allegation will I have to avert my eyes Pooterishly away from,as whether the Barcelona demigod gives a zillionth of a toss where Im looking? What action that I would condemn utterly in Gary Barlow will I find a way to gain uneasy peace with as far as Lionel Messi is concerned?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com