Mainland social media has been gripped by news that pieces of turf from the pitch in China on which football superstar Lionel Messi strutted his stuff earlier this year have been put up for sale at US$70 a patch.

Mainland social media has been gripped by news that pieces of turf from the pitch in China on which football superstar Lionel Messi strutted his stuff earlier this year have been put up for sale at US$70 a patch.