“Madness,” Lionel Messi called it, but even he hadn’t imagined it being this mad. One Friday in September Messi walked into the dressing room at Barcelona’s Sant Joan Despí training ground and it hit him. After six years his best friend wasn’t there, so he sent him a message. “It’ll be strange seeing you in another shirt,” it said, and two days on he discovered how strange when Luis Suárez made his Atlético Madrid debut. Introduced as a sub against Granada, 90 seconds later, Suárez
SERGIO RAMOS has made a shock claim about manager Zinedine Zidane. The Frenchman has come under mounting pressure this season because Real Madrid sit fourth in La Liga and have crashed out of the Copa del Rey. It is thought that president Florentino Perez is thinking about axing Zidane if Los Blancos fail to win the Champions League. Real took a giant step towards securing a quarter-final spot as they beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in the first leg of their last-16 clash on Wednesday. But



