PIC: We know it’s December but we are already prepping the Andrea Pirlo beach look

This is the time of year when some masochists hit the shops.

And then hit their fellow shoppers as they battle to the death for the best deals. We've always been more the type to wedge ourselves on the couch for Celtic-Hearts, Munster-Leinster and how ever many College Bowls there are to play each day. Until now. Because now we can see why it is people go shopping two days after Christmas - it's so you can dress like Andrea Pirlo, yeah? The former AC Milan and Juventus magician is currently enjoying a football professor emeritus position with New York City FC, where he has been enjoying the cultural vibe of the Big Apple and poorly defending the near post at a few set-pieces. Well the Italian maestro deserved a holiday after all that, so he headed to Dubai for a mid-winter break - where he bumped into fellow football god, Lionel Messi. https://www.instagram.com/p/_ywZnSj2Nv/?taken-by=andreapirlo21 We know what you're thinking: "How does he make those yellow shorts look so good?" In fairness, Messi next to him with his sleeve tattoos and lunar T-shirt looks like a peasant. It's the whole combination: shorts, light blue shirt, unbuttoned to a graphic level, with sunglasses nonchalantly hanging just north of the navel. Well, we had a look for some of Pirlo's shorts and you know what? They can't be got in Ireland in December. So we're just going to go back to watching the darts.