Barcelona’s Messi Strategy

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Barcelona's strategy to get beneath the Messi flowerpot
By Simon Kuper

A no-name defender from Almería kicks Lionel Messi. The undersized Argentinian with the brown flowerpot haircut is unhurt, and gets up wearing his usual blank expression.

Nonetheless, half the Barcelona team berate the culprit.

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