Nick Miller

He hasn't said anything.

And something that his teammate said wasn't really that controversial either.

And suddenly he's got sucked into this new thing that he has to deal with.

So, as I said, hopefully they're kind of protected from it a little bit.

But it's only going to be a distraction after they've had a disappointing result in their first game.

Yeah, I mean, I think you could kind of wander down some, you know, very philosophical paths here.

But I think it's we've obviously had this thing for the best part of 20 years now where Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have been pitted against each other.

And at some point it feels like a huge groups of people have just picked a side and they kind of defend their sides, you know, to ridiculous degrees.

To the death of logic.

Yeah, exactly that.

Bending facts and bending reality to suit their own arguments.

In my kind of limited experience, then Ronaldo fans are slightly more obsessive than Messi fans.

But, you know, maybe that's just because I'm writing the wrong pieces about this.

I think that is a big part of it.

And, you know, he's obviously a monumental footballer or was a monumental footballer.

I'm not sure he is anymore.

But, you know, he's going to be... He's closing in on scoring 1,000 goals in his career, which, you know, given that the...

previous people who have done that, there are some kind of doubts about, you know, they scored a lot of these goals in friendlies and, you know, maybe kickabouts in their backyards kind of thing and they're counting those towards their tally.

But he's, he would have scored in, you know, probably next year at some point, he would have scored 1,000 goals

proper actual competitive goals and he's got over 200 international caps you don't really need to kind of emphasise that he's one of the greatest players that has ever lived so it's when you kind of combine that with a culture where increasingly in Europe and I think probably worldwide as well