The Ballon d'Or power rankings are shaping up, with new favourites, as teams drop out of competitions and favourites establish themselves in others.
Time was that the Ballon d'Or was a lovely little end-of-year footnote, but has now ballooned (or should that be balloned? No?) to a degree of such apparent importance to some players that it is more important than the boring old trophies that get handed out for, you know, winning football matches and stuff.
