Do you know what, I agree. Great players influence the performance of others and pull up their levels, Ronaldo does that. Messi can't
At this rate I can see an all Yugoslavian Old Boys final in July. Bloody well done the Croats. C'mon the Serbs (unless we meet 'em in the semis that is ).
I had a lovely, Croation lad as a team mate in the mid seventies. He told me Yugoslavia didn't exist and that it was Tito's dream that would turn to a nightmare following his death. How bloody right he was. Incidentally, he lost family in conflict with Serbs.
I just finished readying a good book based on this conflict, The Heart of Danger by Gerald Seymore, really good read.