If you haven’t seen it yet then do yourself a favour and have a binge on Captains of the World on Netflix. And then you can thank me later.
For the uninitiated, it’s a spellbinding, fly on the wall, peek behind the curtains reflection on last December’s World Cup Finals.
An access all areas documentation of Lionel Messi’s final ascent to football’s other world. Granted, there’s a whiff of FIFA’s greediness in the background and of Gianni Infantino’s grubby little fingers, which does mean there’s a bit of nose holding required throughout.
But then wasn’t that always the case where Infantino’s morally bankrupt Qatari cash grab was concerned? So ignore the smell and be mesmerised by the drama as well as the magic of the storytelling and filmmaking.