A day without a global insult is a day wasted, apparently.
Lionel Messi flew into Kolkata for what was billed as a symbolic appearance. Twenty minutes. A wave. A moment. Instead, Salt Lake Stadium delivered something far more familiar: chaos, broken seats, broken fences, and a broken idea of how global sport should be hosted.
Messi didn’t even play. He didn’t promise selfies. He didn’t linger. He arrived, acknowledged the crowd, and left. And the moment a rumor spread that he had exited the venue, thousands jumped the gun—literally—storming the pitch and vandalizing an 85,000-capacity stadium that already had poor crowd segregation and laughable control.
This wasn’t passion. This was impatience weaponized.
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