Football
Ballon d’Or ceremony returns to England in nod to ‘revolutionary’ Stanley Matthews
Matthews’ family ‘very excited’ as London Palladium hosts event 70 years after first award at Blackpool town hall When football’s dignitaries assemble on Monday at the London Palladium for the Ballon d’Or ceremony it wil
Published 25 October 2026 at 08:00 UTC
No approved video matched this story yet.
What happened
l be a far cry from the first awards 70 years ago. That was held in the slightly less glamorous surroundings of Blackpool town hall, where Stanley Matthews was presented with the p