This should have been another week of footy quotes, but then I think there are sufficient quotes about a particular player to make one drool.

Lionel Messi is simply in the form of his life, destroying teams week after week, well make that every few days. Just days after tearing Stuttgart to shreds and putting the ball pass the peeing lemon, he ensured the Spanish press had ran out of superlatives they had to invite their readers to send in their own adjectives.

Watch what he did against Zaragoza over the weekend and you will be encoring bloody hell!

“I’m not sure he’s human,” said the Zaragoza playmaker Ander Herrera after the demolition.

“Tonight, I saw Diego Maradona,” declared the Real Zaragoza coach José Aurelio Gay, “but at more Revs Per Minute. There are no words left to describe him – he is interplanetary. We could have beaten Barcelona but we could never have beaten Leo Messi. If we had scored four, he would have scored 12.”

Interplanetary? Is that even a word or simply something lost in translation? Nonetheless, just take a look at this goal he scored 4 years ago when he was just 18. Which just about makes him 22 now. Astounding.