Congratulations to them both! https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/24/jamie-vardy-gareth-bale-ballon-d-or-2016 Also a belated congratulations to Demarai Gray for being nominated for Golden Boy http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/marcus-rashford-comes-second-renato-9114190
Congrats indeed .... But a bit of a farce. What the point of having a 'shortlist' of 30. Should be a shortlist of 2. Messi and Ronaldo Boring.
You say it's boring but in all honesty could you say that there has been better players than those two in each of the years they won it. The gap is starting to close but even this year it kinda should go to either one of them or Suarez. If it doesn't then it's a bigger farce.
I predict it'll be 1st Ronaldo (won Euros + Champions League), 2nd Messi (because it's Messi) 3rd Greizmann (he is French).
... just take a minute to reflect... Two Leicester City players on the list for the Ballon d'Or .... where did those cold nights at Oldham and Barnsley go?
I remember losing to bottom of the table Rotherham on Boxing Day and being as miserable as f@#$ for the rest of the holidays. Couldn't have dreamt we'd be looking at any of our players on the Ballon d'Or nominations list. I was always hopeful things would improve....