Lionel Messi attracted the blue-and-white shirts of Espanyol like moths to a flame before, with a change of pace and a blur of feet, he left them trailing as he emerged with the ball. Up in the corporate seats, delight creased the familiar features of Steve Archibald.
'I scored goals where I didn't know how I'd done it,' he explains. 'My game was about movement. I'd be moving and thinking and then the ball comes and in a moment of execution it's gone, in the back of the net and you don't even remember it because it's instinctive.