Leo Messi will be close to a 12th league title on Saturday if Paris Saint Germain beat Lens at home to move nine points clear with seven games to play.
He will never have won a championship in such a toxic atmosphere.
At least the spotlight will be off of him in Saturday’s game. PSG coach Christophe Galtier received around 5,000 threatening messages, including some death threats, after accusations emerged this week that he made racist comments while coach at Nice last season.
RMC Sport claimed that an email sent by Julien Fournier, Nice Director of Football at the time, to an employee of INEOS, the company that owns Nice, mentioned Galtier complaining of ‘too many black and Muslim players’ in the squad.