Karim Benzema, NFTs and Andriy Shevchenko, the true winner of the Ballon d’Or – The Warm-Up
TUESDAY’S BIG STORIES King Karim Ad For over a decade we moaned that the Ballon d’Or was just a high school popularity contest between the ringleader and the whizz-kid. It didn’t matter how good you were, if you weren’t called Lionel or Cristiano (or, err, Luka) you were going to be left out. Premier LeagueVilla want Pochettino if Gerrard is sacked after crucial double-header – Paper Round10 HOURS AGO It was proved in 2010, when Messi somehow won ahead of Andres Iniesta, who not only made it unreasonably easy for the Argentine to score so many that year, but also, y’know, scored the biggest goal at the actual World Cup.
