It’s hard to believe that at the start of the season, someone imagined these were the sights we would get during a Paris Saint-Germain game. The French lead is currently meeting Bordeaux, with its home crowd reacting with jarring contempt at every touch of Leo Messi and Neymar, two of the world’s biggest football stars.
The background is of course PSG’s painful relegation against Real Madrid in the Champions League last week, when even the reports of the possibility of the two leaving, certainly did not contribute. It seems that Parisian fans are simply unwilling to forgive the humiliation they have experienced, with the contempt being almost unprecedented in its intensity.
In fact, the only player to be received with love and applause by the home crowd is Killian Ambape, who was also the one to score in the 23rd minute. For Messi, there is no doubt that this is a particularly delusional experience. This is not the place where one of the favorite players in the history of football, expected to find himself in the last years of his career. Neymar suffered contempt even after scoring in the second half, and barely celebrated the goal.
