Messi's third was the choice of the three and for those of us that actually

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Maradona was better, was never afforded the protection from the officials that the current fancy-dans get.

Nah, you're just doing that 'a player of my generation couldn't possibly be the best ever' thing. Most people do it to be fair, but in this case we should be able to get over it.

Maradonna's goal against England in 86, as an example. You could find Messi scoring goals like that almost every week for Barca for a few years there.

We take him for granted just because we've seen so much of it that it's hard to put in a historical context.