PSG fans are losing their minds over Lionel Messi’s impending arrival, with a sizeable group of them being filmed running after a black van in France’s capital.
News filtered through via the French media on Sunday evening that supporters were camped outside Paris’ Le Bourget airport hoping to catch a glimpse of Messi as he landed in France ahead of officially becoming a PSG player.
You can’t blame them – it is Messi, after all – but they really ought to have read the news before making the trip, as it fast became clear that the Argentine wouldn’t be arriving in Paris until Monday morning.
Lionel Messi’s arrival in Paris has been delayed until tomorrow, according to Canal+’s Olivier Tallaron.
— Get French Football News (@GFFN) August 8, 2021
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Nevertheless, in the absence of all common sense, PSG fans were filmed sprinting after a black van with tinted windows, just on the off chance that it could be ferrying Messi to the Parc des Princes.
Messi est-il dans ce van noir ? Non, mais les supporters veulent y croire quand même #LeBourget pic.twitter.com/u1ZAU8cepN
— Le Parisien | PSG (@le_Parisien_PSG) August 8, 2021
Of course, it wasn’t Messi inside, and whoever was sat in the back will probably have been left wondering what on Earth they’ve done to have become so popular overnight…