Guapismo:
Lionel Messi can't go five minutes without being dragged into a debate about whether he's better than Cristiano Ronaldo or not but now the Barcelona forward has been voted the greatest sportsman of all time!

Greatest of all time, GOAT. It's a big statement to make and it gets tweeted a hell of a lot of times about different people.



So we decided to find out exactly who the best ever is, was and maybe always will be - unfortunately we didn't include Bret Hart in the conversation.


After a short discussion in the office we landed on 16 names. Serena Williams, Muhammad Ali, Phil Taylor, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Sachin Tendulkar, Michael Schumacher, Ronda Rousey, Michael Jordan, AP McCoy, Pele, Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

It was difficult enough coming up with just 16. Most sports don't have a definitive best ever and there's a lot of sports, some didn't make it like snooker or American Football, but we did our best.

After four quarter finals the finalists were Ali, Federer, Jordan and Messi. After an hour of voting the Argentina forward came top of the poll, beating the boxer by a mere 2%


This one has caused a lot of controversy, of course the Ronaldo fans aren't too happy, and even in the office we're struggling to agree who should have won between ourselves.

Messi has won pretty much everything in the game and broken so many records, especially for Barcelona, but he's never won anything with his national team, losing three finals in a row.


Messi has won the Ballon d'Or a record five times. Image: PA Images
I imagine they'll be lots of argument about the winner. Of course a

Lordave:
The Goat is greater than 1000 generations of Ronaldo put together.

TheOdd1sOut:
make una go sit down jhur

CR7 for life

Let Messi play in other leagues like the EPL so that we can see what he's made of.

Even maradona called him a one club man

TheOdd1sOut:
go and boil stone jhur

”Messi dribbles from his own half and scores against his opponents, but C Ronaldo scores just tap-ins, rebounds, and fluke free kicks. Messi is the greatest of all all time.” Wayne Rooney.

“Messi is the greatest sportsman ever” Late Muhammad Ali.

Kiss the truth!

TheOdd1sOut:
make una go sit down jhur

CR7 for life

Let Messi play in other leagues like the EPL so that we can see what he's made of.

Even maradona called him a one club man

Kingosytex:



am not a football fanatic but i want you to understand that messi is good. many players have played in barca without even coming close to messi's brilliance.


with the issue of changing club or league, i want to know that messi has played against top sides from europe and came out tops, what makes u think that he won't succeed if barca sells him?


moreover, ferguson spent 26 years at man utd and won trophies, he is regarded as one of the greatest ever coaches (if not the greatest), why didn't he change another club to be considered great?

Kingosytex:



am not a football fanatic but i want you to understand that messi is good. many players have played in barca without even coming close to messi's brilliance.


with the issue of changing club or league, i want to know that messi has played against top sides from europe and came out tops, what makes u think that he won't succeed if barca sells him?


moreover, ferguson spent 26 years at man utd and won trophies, he is regarded as one of the greatest ever coaches (if not the greatest), why didn't he change another club to be considered great?