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Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:29 pm**

Toffeehater wrote:How reina is not even one of the nominees when he was won the golden glove competition consistently puzzles me .

Zlatan and Kaka higher than gerrard?

Why kaka because he got his team into the uefa cup and the same zlatan who went missing when we played them twice?

Hype

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:36 pm**

Fo Dne wrote:
s@int wrote:2008 Ballon d'Or voting

1 Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester Utd) 446 points
2 Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 281 pts
3 Fernando Torres (Liverpool) 179 pts
4 Iker Casillas (Real Madrid) 133 pts
5 Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona) 97 pts
6 Andriy Arshavin (Zenit St-Petersburg) 64 pts
7 David Villa (Valencia) 55 pts
8 Kaka (AC Milan) 31 pts
9 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan) 30 pts
10 Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) 28 pts
11 Marcos Senna (Villarreal) 16 pts
12 Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal) 12 pts
13 Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) 11 pts
14 Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid) 10 pts
15 Frank Lampard (Chelsea) 8 pts
16 Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich) 7 pts
17 Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona) 6 pts
18 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) 5 pts
19 Michael Ballack (Chelsea), Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal) 4 pts
21 Didier Drogba (Chelsea), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Nemanja Vidic (Manchester United) 3 pts
24 Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Real Madrid), 2 pts

Top three pretty much as expected, but I would have thought Gerrard would have been a little higher.

Frank Lampard's the 15th best player in the world?

Yeah alright, he's probably the 15th best central midfielder in the country, I'd go with that, but the 15th best player in world football?

Please!! Absoloutely joke. Seriously.

Ballack is even better than lampard and he is below fat frank :no

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:40 pm**

How does the points system actually work

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:46 pm**

Ronaldo must be the most unpopulat winner of this award

well in Torres

our star man !

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:23 pm**

s@int wrote:
maguskwt wrote:
metalhead wrote:good standing for torres, so no complaints

Torres should be second, what did Messi win?

Olympic gold medal.

Well Torres won the European Cup which is much more prestigious... Olympic Gold? phewt... he was bullying youngsters and wasn't even that effective...

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:31 pm**

Messi's not a bad player, let's not start sounding bitter. The guys absolute class, and had to be at least 2nd in the list.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:09 pm**

maguskwt wrote:
s@int wrote:
maguskwt wrote:
metalhead wrote:good standing for torres, so no complaints

Torres should be second, what did Messi win?

Olympic gold medal.

Well Torres won the European Cup which is much more prestigious... Olympic Gold? phewt... he was bullying youngsters and wasn't even that effective...

Messi is a youngster himself for your info. and your bullying youngster thingy doesnt apply anyway when we had Owen scoring that goals against Argentina.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:25 pm**

dawson99 wrote:Messi's not a bad player, let's not start sounding bitter. The guys absolute class, and had to be at least 2nd in the list.

Yep

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:02 pm**

hey but Torres will always be number 1 to us folks. :;):

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:33 pm**

4ORDY wrote:How does the points system actually work

I think other managers and players around the world vote or something like that .

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:35 pm**

Votes by a big bunch of babbleing baffoons.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:28 pm**

Reina doesnt deserve to be in that list... he didnt win anything and isnt even 1 of the best 3 goalkeepers in the world so no reason for him to be up there...

Messi is the best player in the world and hes shown last year that he is the better player when ManUtd played Barcelona and Ronaldo went missing in the big occasion yet again... if it wasnt for ronaldos goals against all the smaller clubs in the country and europe he wouldnt have won it.. but with his record and manutd winning both the league and the CL there was always going to be one man getting this award and perhaps deservedly so.. Torres 3rd , no complaints...

Like him or not Lampard has been one of the most consistent footballers in the planet for the past few seasons.. he rarely misses a game and his goalscoring records are outstanding for a midfielder.. his team is always there or thereabouts in most championships so in my books he was always going to be in the top 20 atleast...

Mascherano doesnt deserve to be anywhere near that list... Zlatan was the main man for Inter last year and had a brilliant season dont know where all the nonsense about him not contributing to inters season is coming from... guy is absolute class and one of the best forwards in the planet atm.. right up there with torres and the likes...

Kaka deserves to be up there, brilliant footballer and besides all that if it wasnt for him Milan would have struggled even more than they did last season,... milan were pretty much a one man team last year and whenever Kaka missed a game they looked like an average side ...

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:34 pm**

I would have had Wesley Sneijder in there

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:07 pm**

I would put Torres in at No.1 but then again its part of my obvious bias lol!

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:29 pm**

Lee J wrote:hey but Torres will always be number 1 to us folks.

Agreed. I think that's the best way to put it

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And torres came third - Ballon d'or