Klaus wrote:
Mirth wrote:Just because you don't like the result doesn't mean the entire voting system is wrong because judging who the best individual in a team sport is a subjective process.
It's wrong when the same two players come out on top every time regardless of what anyone else achieves. If rating achievement is indeed subjective then an award where you know the outcome before the season has even started has a genuine problem when it comes to the voting process.
Getting really tired of this discussion now. You either see the problem with it or you don't, but the complete lack of a criteria for winning other than what people perceive to be the 'best individual', without something tangible to connect that to apart from goal stats, makes it all a bit pointless.
You make it out to be that the Ballon d'or has always been this predictable. That's never been the case until Messi and Ronaldo came around. Few players in history have EVER dominate individual awards like they have. True, the awards do throw up some controversial names once in a while - but which award ceremony doesn't? It's a whole lot better this way than the PFA awards which some rewarded Giggs for just being alive a few years ago. Now that really was mockery. Having a set criteria would ruin not only the awards but the discussion around them - you might as well have their fucking whoscored.com stats up there instead.
And yes, a lot of great players have achieved some amazing feats in the past few years. But so have Messi and Ronaldo. You fail to confront the most obvious fact that these two set new records on practically a weekly basis which automatically make them favourites to win the Ballon d'or on a regular basis. Moreover, they have carried their teams for large parts of the season and win a fair amount of trophies themselves. So that doesn't make it wrong in my eyes. I would say, in the past 6 years, they got the winner of the Ballon d'or right 5 out of the 6 times. Do you agree? If so, I think there's a serious lack of perspective in your argument.
