Ballon d'Or 2017 Power rankings - Top 5 

Lionel Messi Cristiano Ronaldo Ballon d'Or 2017
Lionel Messi, the Ballon d'Or, and Cristiano Ronaldo - ever known a better love triangle?

#4. Harry Kane

A.F.C. Bournemouth v Tottenham Hotspur - Premier League
He's celebrating like Shearer, He's scoring like Shearer... Harry Kane is on fire!

Harry Kane is arguably the best out-and-out striker on the planet at the moment, and that has to count for something, right?

Only Lionel Messi has scored more goals than the Englishman during the calendar year 2017, and apart from that eerie annual August blip, he's been unstoppable all year round.

After collecting his second consecutive Golden Boot at the end of last season (sure, Tottenham Hotspur won the square root of bugger all, but this is an individual award) and having played September and half of October with the full intention of keeping up his purple patch, the man they now call a one-career-wonder (a play on the jibes he was dismissed with during his first good season) is now a genuinely serious threat to the establishment.

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No Englishman has won it since the irrepressible Michael Owen in 2001, and no one has even made the top 3 since Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard finished 2-3 in 2005 (Ronaldinho won it that year) but keep this form up and Harry Kane should soon enough join those illustrious ranks.

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