Harry Kane’s Ballon d’Or triumph a glorious riposte to celebrity fawning of ceremony
Well, there’s something new. Football: now available in new, genuinely heartwarming flavour.
There was a lovely moment at London’s Palladium Theatre, with the clock creeping towards 11pm at the end of a startlingly shrill and bloated evening of never-ending awards and never-ending award-related excitement.


