The Nick Townsend Column: The Ronaldo and Drogba Show: how panto villains turned award nominees
Posted in Syndicated News on Sunday December 31st, 2006 12:00am
And so, we depart 2006 embracing two names which have illuminated the national game; a duo who six months ago would have beenthe most unlikely to be commended for awards, other than perhaps El-Hadji Diouf. Could anyone have seriously imagined that Cristiano Ronaldo and Didier Drogba, once notorious as practitioners of the game's darker arts, would have been vying for the bookies' favouritism as Footballer of the Year? Yet they are, and clear of the field too - one which includes such names as Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes and Michael Essien.
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