In the early minutes of that game against Olympiacos, Messi was seen bending over and taking something out of a compartment of his socks. He then quickly threw that thing in his mouth and chewed on it. That thing turned out to be a pill which made eyebrows all around the world go up.

Football fans are not oblivious to the doping problem that has plagued the sport in the past, so it was not very surprising that people reacted that way to seeing a player take a pill during a match.  But then, think about it, even if Messi was doping, don’t you think he’d rather do it in secret? 

I mean, why would he come to the pitch where he knows that millions of eyes all around the world are on him to take a banned substance?  Anyway, a question still needs to be answered; what then were those pills Messi took and why did he take them in the middle of a Champions League game?  So, reports say that that was a glucose tablet. 

Now, you might then ask why he didn’t just take the pill in the locker room before coming out for the match, but that’s because, according to Ricard Torquemada, the first 15 minutes of physical exertion is the period when the muscles are usually most receptive.  Now, another very important question is; why did Messi have to take those pills in the first place? Is the GOAT okay?