In the weeks building up to the game that Sky Sports presenters claim to be ‘bigger than the World Cup final’ all the talk has been about one thing. Who would prove themselves to be the best player in the world come the end of the Champions League final – Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi? For many people it is a simple answer and for others it is difficult to pick between the two. However, not many people predicted that come full time all the talk would be about another …

Argentina’s recent 6-0 decimation at the hands of Bolivia, was rapidly claimed to have been an anomoly and to have been due to the much criticised conditions in Bolivia, namely the oxygen levels which are abormally low. Diego Maradona, the Argentinian national coach, ventured down the jingoistic route of manufacturing the claim that baring witness to each Oblivia goal was akin to a ’stab in the heart’. However, it could be so that oxygen levels, nationalism and altitude are at the east of Argentinian worries.
I recall the emphatic 6-0 demolition …