Gary Lineker insists that, while he's a huge fan of Cristiano Ronaldo, the long-running debate over who is the better footballer between him and Lionel Messi is "not even close".
The BBC Sport presenter has long been a fan of Messi's work for his own former club Barcelona, and frequently lauds the Argentinean's efforts on social media.
Such is the tribal nature of the debate between Messi and Ronaldo, almost any suggestion that one player is better than the other is then immediately shouted down by those who insist that their choice is the right one, but Lineker is adamant that it is Messi who is best. "People get very tribal in all sorts of ways in life, and Messi versus Ronaldo is one of them," the former England striker told BBC
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