Search icon

Uncategorized

25th Sep 2014

Vine: Somebody actually had the gall to push Lionel Messi in the face last night

How dare he?

Conor Heneghan

How dare he?

It’s not often our anger reaches boiling point in JOE Towers but there are certain things that push us over the edge.

Over excessive use of the word ‘banter’ is one, too much milk in one’s tea is another, but aggressively confronting the great Lionel Messi is close to if not at the top of the list, so we were a bit put out by the treatment he received at the hands of a Malaga defender last night.

The defender in question was Weligton, who received only a yellow card for grabbing Messi by the chin and shoving him away in the sides’ 0-0 draw last night in a game in which Barca failed to register a single shot on target, the first time that has happened to the Catalan side in La Liga since the 2003/04 season.

Vine via KICKTV

Weligton is believed to have claimed that Messi called him a ‘hijo de puta’ (son of a bitch) and that’s what kicked off the confrontation between them, so maybe our Leo isn’t so innocent after all.

You’re off the hook this time Weligton, but your card has been marked.

Topics:

Lionel Messi