Idiots and football

Apparently hacks and pundits alike are queuing up to slaughter both Guardiola and Messi.

Even considering the depths of stupidity to which football appears to have sunk, pillorying one of the most exciting young managers in world football and the best player on the planet simply for losing one tie is a joke.

Not one of the idiots who has criticised either man - not one - is capable of doing a job anywhere near as good as them. Of course, the next time either the Spaniard or the Argentine wins a major trophy the same idiots will be falling over backwards with praise as exaggerated as this week's criticism. It seems the idiots are here to stay.