Messi again writes script as Argentina scrape home

Argentina 1 Switzerland 0 (aet)

Some of their songs — like their curious adaptation of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Bad Moon Rising’ — might confound the uninitiated but the Maradona-Mexico chant, well, that requires no translation.

More than just a celebration of the greatest solo show on earth — Diego’s extraordinary colonisation of the World Cup of 1986 — the chant also implies a hope and even a demand: that what the master did all of 28 years ago, the heir apparent can and will do at Brazil 2014.