Sadio Mane’s Ballon d’Or shortlisting shows why fans shouldn’t take the award seriously
Sadio Mane was a great player. The phrasing here is deliberate — a world in which the Senegalese winger, little more than the Robin to Cristiano Ronaldo’s Batman in the Saudi Pro League, makes it to the Ballon d’Or 30-man shortlist… is not a serious world. Sure, Mane won the Africa Cup of Nations in … Read more