Someone’s been watching Easy Rider

Messi has long resembled a reject from The Monkees (or a young Brian Wilson), so stand him next to his Argentinean team mates Fernando Gago and Ever Banega, and it’s like the 1960s all over again, man. Hilariously, The Spoiler thought it an idea to tag Neil from The Young Ones onto the end of the picture to really hammer the point home.

Get a haircut, damn pot smoking hippies!

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Struggling team’s saviour turns out to be just another sex pest

If Rafa Benitez is feeling gloomy about his lot at the moment, he should spare a thought for the manager of his former club Valencia, Ronald Koeman, who must be pinned immobile to the floor with Churchillian depression right now.

His team plays as if unfamiliar with the game’s rules, and after identifying three of his most senior players as trouble makers and kicking them out of the squad, his much-despised president failed to