Report Card: Ballon d’Or Nominations
With the Ballon d'Or nominations finally releasing this weekend, the headlines have mostly been devoted to the fact that world champions Italy have no representation whatsoever. But why blame the press for paying excessive attention to an irrelevant detail? After all, the award itself is destined to be heading Lionel Messi's way, which means very little is there to be talked about in terms of debating the winner, right?
Premiership Talk Blog @ Oct 19, 2009 09:36 AM EST | Blog Profile
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