Greetings to the one most high. I know you're good cause I went to church last Sunday. Strue. It was Valentine's Day and it made sense to be around the red-and-white clad congregation of the Wesley Methodist church.This missive could have waited for the day I kick the proverbial bucket for us to have a face-to-face father-to-son conversation.But this is a pressing matter that can not be put on the back-burner.Besides, this mere mortal is not sure whether uncle St Peter will grant me a through pass at the Pearly Gates or shove the right-of-admission-reserved sign in my face while pointing me in the direction of that guy with a fork who presides over a lake of fire and brimstone.story_article_left1This message is a prayer on behalf of all the footballers who have been vanquished by, and those shivering in their boots at the prospects of coming across the three letter phenomenon known as MSN - Messi, Suarez and Neymar.These three musketeers are terrorising teams to an extent that Fifa are contemplating converting their slogan from Fair Play to Foul Play.In all fairness, whoever wins the Fifa election on Friday must move a motion to place a moratorium on Messi winning any more Ballon d'Or awards until Cristiano Ronaldo wins at least one more. Messi alone is responsible for paralysing people in the name of playing.One Jerome Boateng can testify on how the little Argentine maestro made biltong of him when the former's Barcelona butchered the latter's Bayern Munich en route to winning last year's Uefa Champions League.The Italian job Barca pulled on Juventus in the final reduced the father of football cool, Andrea Pirlo, to tears. The waterworks Pirlo released outdid the sprinklers at Berlin's Olympic stadium such that no irrigation was needed to maintain the lush green turf of the cauldron.The madness of this MSN disease has escalated to incurable levels as the world watched Messi pass an assist from the penalty spot for Suarez to score a hat-trick in the half-a-dozen hammering of Celta Vigo.The trick was somewhat of a homage to a similar stunt pulled by Barca legend Johan Cruyff, the Dutchman currently battling cancer who led Barca to multiple titles, both as a player and manager.Arsenal's Thierry Henry and Robert Pires attempted it and failed with flying colours in 2005. Back to the terrific trio. Such is the prowess of the trio that the European Union has agreed to invest in a save our goalkeepers ward in each of its member states' hospitals.story_article_right2This is due to the alarming increase in the number of abdominal pains suffered by goalkeepers the world over from the numerous times they have to pick the ball from their nets once MSN has struck. Little Leo is always the mastermind behind the massacres.Pele. Diego Maradona. Michel Platini. Zinedine Zidane. Ronaldinho. Kaka.Gheorghe Hagi. Shoes Mosheou. Roberto Baggio.Cruyff himself. These men form a roll call of great individual footballers who wore the number 10 on their backs. Messi, though, is in a league of his own.The holy book warns against the pagan worship of false gods. However given how billions around the world kneel before him, the way we marvel at the infinite talent you've showered Messi with, we are teetering on the brink of committing the cardinal sin of placing him on a godly pedestal.Forgive us Father for we have sinned. It looks as though we will live in sin given the Champions League night coming up when MSN will enter the Emirates to take on Arsenal.Once the gong goes the Gunners will look to Mesut Ozil. He's no Messi.Wenger will call on Alexis Sanchez. He's no Neymar.And Oliver Giroud is no Luis Suarez. Big G, I suspect even you watch Messi from your vantage point upstairs and think: "Damn this guy is a football god." Lord have Messi on Arsenal and Peter Cech.@bbkunplugged99..