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On the afternoon of Sunday 29 August in Reims, at one point the whole stadium stood up to applaud Lionel Messi, the Argentine footballer-superstar, who made his debut with the shirt of PSG, the Paris football club. At about the same time, at Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton, a suburb of Birmingham, the Manchester United snatched a lucky victory. However, there was none on the pitch standing ovation: there was no super champion to applaud. Why Cristiano Ronaldo …