Pizzey's Perch

No fist pump­ing. No face-con­tort­ed, tri­umphal­ist screaming.
When the penal­ty kick sealed the dream, Lionel Mes­si looked up, raised his arms, fell to his knees and was swamped by his team mates. When they final­ly untan­gled, he salut­ed the rap­tur­ous Argen­tin­ian fans with open arms and his sig­na­ture boy­ish smile: a les­son in class for the many who lack it, in sport and elsewhere.… Read the rest