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Piers Morgan slams TV pundits for their comments about Lionel Messi, he's being called a 'hypocrite'

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Published 12:38 4 Dec 2022 GMT

Piers Morgan slams TV pundits for their comments about Lionel Messi, he's being called a 'hypocrite'

Morgan has criticised BBC pundits over their comments on Messi following Argentina's 2-1 win that saw them reach the quarter-finals.

George Priestman

George Priestman

Piers Morgan has slammed the pundits on BBC's coverage of Argentina vs Australia for their comments over Lionel Messi, following his stellar World Cup performance.

He took to Twitter to voice his comments against the panel of pundits that included Gary Lineker, Rio Ferdinand, Pablo Zabaleta and Alan Shearer.

All of whom who were extremely complimentary of a player who had just gone on score his 789th career goal in his 1000th appearance in professional football, in what is a staggering achievement.

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Goals from Messi and Manchester City's Julian Alvarez looked to have confirmed their passage to the quarter-finals, before an own goal from Enzo Fernandez sparked a late Australia flurry, as Emi Martinez was forced into a couple of late saves as they held on to advance to the quarter-finals.

Morgan, 57, famously has a strong relationship with Messi's on-pitch rival Cristiano Ronaldo and recently conducted that bombshell interview on TalkTV and clearly wasn't enjoying the flood of compliments heading the Argentinian's way.

It was Messi who shone the brightest, as he was clearly man of the match with what was his best performance at the tournament so far - but, of course, Morgan had to find a way to discredit his showing.

In a bizarre tweet, he called the praise 'excruciatingly obsequious' - essentially he accused them of being over-complimentary and attentive to his performance.

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He also went on to say: "Getting worried one of them might have an ‘accident’ in the studio. Calm yourselves, lads. He had a good game against an average side. See how he does against a good team."

As you can imagine, the comments were filled with plenty of humorous comebacks against Morgan, with the majority of them refencing the fact he loves being near one of Ronaldo's orifices.

With one of the best replies being: "Says the man who would lick Cristiano Ronaldo arse the day after he’s had a Indian the night before!"

Whilst another commented: "You were literally praising Ronaldo on Twitter for a goal he didn't even score"

It was a similar avenue that Lineker decided to go down, as he reunited his unique Twitter-feud with his old adversary by replying: "Good to see you emerge briefly from deep inside the bowels of Ronaldo to express your opinion."

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That tweet has over 95k likes and it's certainly safe to say that he won the battle of words unanimously here.

Perhaps someone should tell Morgan his superstar friend Ronaldo was actually named in the 'Worst Team of the Group Stages', we wonder how he'd try and spin that.

Featured Image Credit: Alamy

Topics: Football, Football World Cup, Lionel Messi

George Priestman
George Priestman

Huge Football, Boxing and Film fan. Also, a Chelsea fan living in the North West. Looking to break into the world of sports media by any means necessary!

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