Hi this is Neil from Backpage I'm one of the producers of the big interview with Graham Hunter

you are about to hear an audio version of the weekly column Graham writes for ESPN this is something

that Graham's doing every week now for our socios, the members of the podcast at patreon.com

forward slash Graham Hunter, as well as an extra big interview every month. Our socios get

audio versions of everything Graham writes for E.S.B.N.

The Evening Express and others.

So here he is on Leo Messy's hat trick for Barcelona against Betis.

The reaction from the home crowd in Seville and why this places Barce's captain in an elite group which includes Mohammedale, Nadia Cominich and Mozart.

Look it's best if Graham explains it. To get twice as many big interviews, the chance to participate in our monthly Q&As and these audio columns, go to Patreon.com forward slash Grim Hunter. Listen, not all of you have the misfortune to read my columns either for the Evening Express or

ESPN FC and therefore decided to record them and send them to you for your oral

delectation. If you don't like them just send them back as Elvis would say

return to sender. If you do like them I'll keep doing them. Hello again, Socios, thanks for being there. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever it is to you. I'm glad that we share these moments. This is the original version, therefore a little bit longer,

sometimes with a phrase or two that didn't make the cut on the ESPN FC site.

But this is my column for ESPN. A site I'd urge you to try and use to go to the other writers there are fabulous.

The editors believe in quality copy, quality ideas. So how the hell I made the cut? Heaven only knows. But nonetheless, I promised you that I'd bring you audio versions of those columns here on the big interview. And this is the one that I wrote about

Leo Massey and his feats at Real Betis on Sunday night but then it's also as

much about the reaction that that night of brilliance engendered. I wrote this originally.

It's a remarkable sensation when a sports person produces a moment of exceptional all-time achievement, but the reaction

to that Excelsior moment becomes almost as powerful as the event itself.

I'd argue that Léo Massey fused those two wonderful human themes together on

Sunday night, immense action followed by extraordinary reaction. Across my lifetime following sport there have been many

examples. Not all identical, not by any means, but moments which live on for reasons other

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