Sometimes Maybe Good - A Football Podcast
Sep 23, 2026 · 58 min · 9 segments
We are joined by Griffin again this week to discuss what we've loved and loathed about the week in football. Some controversial figures are discussed (for good and bad reasons) and we debate wonder…
After that, from 2008 to 2023, Ronaldo and Messi won every Ballon d'Or, except for two, which was 2018, which Modric won in 2022, which Kieran Bentham had won.
There were 12 players that finished second or third across those years, and I'd like for you boys to name them.
I'm going to give you three lives if you get a player wrong.
Three wrong answers, basically.
12 players.
Some players were in there multiple times, and I'll tell you when you get them.
Working together, obviously.
What were the years again, Max? 2008 to 2023.
Not including 2018 or 2022 or 2020 because it didn't happen that year.
All right.
I'll throw Iniesta straight in.
Correct.
He was there twice.
Xavi as well, surely.
Yeah.
Xavi three times.
You'd think so.
Suarez potentially up there as well, isn't he?
What are you talking about? Oh, Van Dijk.
Yeah, Van Dijk was there.
He finished second in 2019.
Who were the two winners that
you mentioned during the years that Modric and who? Kareem Benzema.
After that, from 2008 to 2023, Ronaldo and Messi won every Ballon d'Or, except for two, which was 2018, which Modric won in 2022, which Kieran Bentham had won.
There were 12 players that finished second or third across those years, and I'd like for you boys to name them.
I'm going to give you three lives if you get a player wrong.
Three wrong answers, basically.
12 players.
Some players were in there multiple times, and I'll tell you when you get them.
Working together, obviously.
What were the years again, Max? 2008 to 2023.
Not including 2018 or 2022 or 2020 because it didn't happen that year.
All right.
I'll throw Iniesta straight in.
Correct.
He was there twice.
Xavi as well, surely.
Yeah.
Xavi three times.
You'd think so.
Suarez potentially up there as well, isn't he?
What are you talking about? Oh, Van Dijk.
Yeah, Van Dijk was there.
He finished second in 2019.
Who were the two winners that
you mentioned during the years that Modric and who? Kareem Benzema.
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