Derby night divides Catalonia

Barcelona and Lionel Messi are again the centre of admiration in the football world and rightly so.

Player of the Year awards are overvalued, but the way the Barcelona attack has reinvented itself three times over the course of a decade is unique in modern football, and Messi has been at the heart of it, changing his role each time and each time emerging as the catalyst.

Forget Maradona and Pele.