Hi it's Graham. What's coming up is a little numeric reminder of the Leo messy phenomenon.

He plays his 600th game for FC Barcelona this weekend. That inspired me to break down some of the

other stats from his extraordinary career, one which I've been really privileged to watch.

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Go to patreon.com forward slash Graham hunter but first here's Leo. Let's hop over to bus learner just before we wrap up.

It's a very special milestone for a very special little dude coming up at the weekend.

Yeah there is, little messy.

And if I said to you, Neil, would you find it easy to accept, you know, in your experience,

that a player of his ability and a guy who plays his way.

Do you not find it a little bit impressive that he's this is his 600 club appearance 600th

Barcelona he's hitting 600 at the age of 30 yeah given exactly given the kind of

player is is impressive but you look at the way that he he kind of

does that judo thing of using opponents force against them

why have you never used that phrase report that's a brilliant one he's obviously had to do that since

being chased by his brothers he didn't say that they used to they used to

torment him and kick him until he was in tears and you've tormented me into using my

the phrase that stuck with me from his the very first interview I did with him which

is in in 2006 600 years ago, about like, doesn't it hurt when you get kicked?

You said, if I get kicked in the first five, 10 minutes when I'm still a bit cold, yeah, it hurts like a bugger, but he said after that,

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