The Ballon D'or - Who Should Win?

By Shane Thomas

While FIFA are currently the number one topic in the British sports media due to their controversial awarding of the 2018 & 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, they announced news today that thankfully deals with the actual game rather than their murky machinations away from the pitch.

Ronnie's Demons May Finally Be Released

By Shane Thomas

In the recent World Snooker Championships, Ronnie O'Sullivan was eliminated in the Quarter-Final stage. Where O'Sullivan is involved, headlines tend to follow, whether in victory, but even more so in his failures. This is due to O'Sullivan being the most talented player ever to have potted a snooker ball. Despite the Essex man's incredible natural talent, he has never been able to dominate the game in the manner that many have expected from him. I must now qualify the rest of this post. What you will read from here onwards is in no way intended to defamatory or insulting. It is not based on fact or personal knowledge. It is just a theory of mine, musings from someone who has observed and marvelled at O'Sullivan for years.

Best In The World - Now The Hard Work Begins Leo

By Shane Thomas

Throughout the course of the day Sky Sports News have continued their hyperbolic and irritable tendencies. Today it was regarding Lionel Messi, heralding him as not only the world's best footballer, but amongst the best of all time. After his wondrous exploits against Arsenal yesterday, they dared to draw comparisons between him and Diego Maradona. This made me suitably enraged enough to write the words that you are currently reading.

Rants against Sky Sports News aside - which are plentiful and must be saved for another time - can we please stop this consensus that Messi deserves to placed alongside the upper echelon of players to have graced the game. First, he is still only 22 and has only been playing regular first-team football for about four years. A career simply cannot be made in that time.