This being Holy Week it is perhaps appropriate for messianic figures, recently lauded to the heavens, to be jeered and abused. Lionel Messi got his dates all wrong however.
Palm Sunday is meant to be the day of acclamation from the crowds. Instead, last Sunday the man who was elevated to the status of a demigod in Qatar in December, was being whistled and jeered by his own fans.
And that was before the game had even kicked off. By the end, it was worse. He got 3/10 from L’Equipe and lost the ball 26 times as Paris St Germain slumped to a 1-0 home defeat to Lyon, their sixth defeat in ten games in all competitions.