Martin O’Neill didn’t include Messi or Ronaldo in his three votes for World Player of the Year

If not them, who did the Ireland manager vote for?…

As was widely expected, Cristiano Ronaldo won the top prize at the relaunched Best FIFA Football Awards tonight, writes Stephen Barry.

The prize counted votes from the captain, manager and a media representative from each country around the world, with Ronaldo netting over a third (34.54%) of total votes. That put him well ahead of Lionel Messi (26.42%) and Antoine Griezmann (7.53%) in second and third places respectively.