In his latest Takimag column, our nostalgic doctor reminisces about his youthful days as an English football fan after reading an article on the great Lionel Messi.

No doubt it is a sign of my gradual change of species from human being to dinosaur that I think it was a more civilized world (at least in some respects) then than it is now, one in which our scale of values was better, but I am glad to think that even now Lionel Messi shares it, even if The Washington Post does not.