Thread of my fav commentaries on #LionelMessi

Here is Messi, causing mischief! He’s unstoppable, he’s unplayable, he’s unbelievable! - @robbopalmer

-That is world-class.
+That is Messi-class. That’s above the world-class Gerry. @robbopalmer

He leaves one, he leaves two for dead... Takes on three, takes on four, beats the goalkeeper! You’re just lost for words! He is just brilliant! George Best, Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff..They’re all getting outshone by this incredible little man! #Messi

Remember the name: Lionel Messi! At the age of 17, scores his first goal for Barcelona! - @robbopalmer #Messi

Lionel Messi, into the area, now they have to watch the steps..OOOH MAGICAL MESSI! HE IS SOMETHING ELSE! #Messi - @robbopalmer

“Just when you think he’s done everything, he comes up with something even more special.” #Messi - Martin Tyler

“Watch him all day people. There will never be another like him. Ever.” #Messi - @RayHudson

“He’ll follow you into a revolving door and still come out first.” #Messi - @RayHudson

“Again! Where the insane becomes the routine with this man. He is nothing less than a ball whisperer." #Messi - @RayHudson

“300 goals for Lionel Messi! You can write a history book about this man. Extraordinary and almost extra terrestrial.” - @robbopalmer
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“Lionel Messi, you could drop a tarantula into his shorts and he'd still be cool.” - @RayHudson
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“They convene on him like cheetahs on a gazelle.” - @RayHudson
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“Leo man.. If he was the captain of the Titanic, he would nutmeg the iceberg.” - @RayHudson
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"If Isaac Newton was watching this man he’d be saying, ‘Boy, was I wrong?'" - @RayHudson
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"How do you put statistics on this, Phil? This isn't measurable, because this is the art of human. Arsène Wenger was wrong when he called him a Play Station player, he was so wrong. This is the art of football.” - @RayHudson
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It's not the statistics. It's not the statistics. It's not the statistics,you don't measure that by statistics. It’s immeasurable!You tell me,how do you measure somebody that could balance a balloon in a wind tunnel on a needle because Messi is capable of that. - @RayHudson
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“Here’s Messi, away from 2, 3, 4.. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! How good is he! A mere supernatural goal from Lionel Messi! He has wriggled and tiptoed his way to the gates of Wembley Stadium. He is just brilliant. Best player in the world bar none.” -Peter Drury
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Look at the pace, look at he speed, look at the intricacy of the touch, the control and then, the finish which is absolutely perfect. They wanna trip him, they wanna foul him, they try to stop him. But you can’t touch him, you can’t get near him.” #Messi

“However brilliant each goal is, how much better each goal is than the one before, he goes and does it again.” #Messi

“An ugly match beautified by football’s greatest beautifier.” -Peter Drury
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“This is the game that is gonna be remembered as Lionel Messi match! 19 years of age and he gets a hattrick! But only it’s a hattrick he scores for 10 men Barcelona in extra time! You can’t write a script like this.” - @robbopalmer
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“Life can beat down the soul. Messi reminds us that we have one.” - @RayHudson
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“He is the best there is, he is the best there ever has been, possibly the best there ever will be.” - @robbopalmer
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“Who is the best player in the world?! Stunning! Just stunning! How much longer can this guy keep improving? His 30th goal of the season, his 19th in the last 18 games, his 6th in the last 3. But he is so much more than a walking talking statistic.” -Peter Drury
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"Messi is a player who amongst the jungle of world class players of today and yesterday stands alone. And saw many levels. As in the jungle there's only one king.
A lion.
A Lionel." - @RayHudson
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“Lionel Messiiii! Lionel Messi does it again, he is superhuman!” - @robbopalmer
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"What we have seen here is absolutely Shakespearian. But Shakespeare got it wrong; it wasn't King Lear, it's King Leo!" - @RayHudson
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“It’s MESSI! Lionel Messi does it again! Where would Barcelona be without Lionel Messi?!”
- @robbopalmer
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(More meaningful than ever in these days.)

“And here he is again, here he is again.. THAT’S ASTONISHING! THAT’S ABSOLUTELY WORLD CLASS!”
-Martin Tyler
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“If he’s shown a Rorschach blot he’d see goals all day!”
- @RayHudson
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“He is just so poetic.. When we look at the statistics that will follow this how many goals he scored, how many games he played in that he’s put the ball in the back of the net.. You can always imitate those statistics. You can’t imitate that.”
@RayHudson
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“Remember the name; Lionel Messi. You’re gonna hear an awful lot of it over the next 10 years.“
- @robbopalmer
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It’s been 13 years. We’re still talking about him, still watching him, still admiring him. Long live Leo!

"He gets his angles better than isosceles."
- @RayHudson
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“He beats the laws of physics! He knows the laws of physics, but they don’t know him.”
- @RayHudson
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“Football is the labyrinth, Messi is the Minotaur!”
- @RayHudson
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“Give it to him and pray.. Ooohhh and he’s done it! It had to be Messi! He’s broken Iranian hearts! When in doubt, give it to the magician.”
-Jonathan Pearce
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“Lionel Messi has scored another beauty.. The smile gets broader as the pile of wonderful goals grows larger and larger. Another picture postcard goal from Lionel Messi.”
-Peter Drury
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“Only him.. Only him make me wait all night on longer view. The guy is beyond human.” -Peter Drury
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The touch.
The knee.
The control.
The foot.
The shot.
This is art.