The Ballon d’Or is Football’s Most Pointless Debate

If you have a pulse and a Twitter account whose algorithm has caught on to the fact you like football, you’ve seen the flurry of Ballon d’Or shortlist posts over the last twenty-four hours. I could dive into the sheer lunacy of having a thirty player shortlist for an award that’s always tightly contested amongst 4–5 names, but that would be, in it of itself, diving into a Ballon d’Or debate — something I’d like to avoid doing as long as possible. We all know football Twitter is a sad representation of humanity, but the Ballon d’Or debate reduces its users to their dullest selves. Between the statistical onslaughts, the narrative based arguments and the “trophies are all that matter” brigade (sorry Julián Álvarez isn’t winning it), there’s a flavor of stupidity for basically everyone with a Joao Felix or Anthony Martial profile picture. The lowest of the low, however, are the achievements graphics. There’s the ones that include achievements outside of the prescribed time period: <a href="https://medium.com/@ianni_ch/the-ballon-dor-is-football-s-most-pointless-debate-c668f1cfc4f5">Website</a>