Messi farewell letter to his father

This is exactly the kind of thing that reminds people why football discourse can get so detached from reality. Messi is treated like a machine far too often, just a name attached to a highlight reel or an argument about rankings, but here he is just a son writing about his father and it should stop everyone in their tracks. Instead, you know full well some people will use it to farm jokes or score points in some pointless debate and that is what makes it feel extra grim, because there is a decent way to respond and then there is the internet way and the internet way is always a bit shit if we are being honest
 
The whole thing just shows how little perspective some football fans have because the second something emotional appears online they either turn it into a joke or start lecturing everyone about how to react and it is like have you people never had a family or a life outside the screen because this is clearly a private grief moment and not some content drop for you to be weird about, honestly the lack of basic humanity in some corners of football discussion is maddening and I cannot be bothered with the performative nonsense anymore
 
People always talk about Messi like he is untouchable but this kind of post makes it clear that he is still a bloke dealing with normal pain and that is why the usual football arguments look stupid in moments like this, there is no need to compare him to anyone or drag up old debates because none of that means anything when someone is grieving, and if people still want to make jokes then fair enough but it says more about them than it does about him and they look absolutely ridiculous doing it
 
Was in the pub earlier and someone put this on their phone and the whole table just went quiet for a bit which is not something you normally get in there because it is usually just lads taking the piss and arguing about absolutely nothing, but that is the thing with a post like this, it cuts through all the usual noise, and even people who are not especially sentimental can feel it, then ten minutes later some gobshite started trying to make a joke out of it and everyone just looked at him like he was a right weirdo, proper awkward moment and he just shrank into his pint after that
 
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