Ronaldo has 56 goals this year for club and country, Messi has scored 42.

Messi is better.

Has anyone ever survived the last day of their life?

comment by The Blue Kenyan (U1641)
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comment by The Wizard of Öz (U18355)
posted 11 minutes ago
Even when Ronaldo won the league with Madrid, Messi, who missed a crucial penalty in the CL SF vs Chelsea, went on to win the Ballon D'Or. Ridiculous really, Messi is the UEFA/FIFA poster boy. It almost seems fixed at this rate.
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What is with this misguided myth that FIFA/UEFA choose the ballon d'Or winner? Once the shortlkst is produced the winner comes from votes from journalists, as various football captains and managers.
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Exactly. The award is picked by team captains and coaches (hence why ronaldo gave the captaincy away last year around voting time), not FIFA delegates

Poor conspiracy theories at work yet again.

Ronaldo has 56 goals this year for club and country, Messi has scored 42.
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Anywhere I can see calendar year stats? All I coould see checking theie ESPN profiles is Ronaldo having 83 goals in 85 games for club and country since the start of last season while Messi has 89 in 74 in he same period. And a lot more assists too. I don't know what the calendar year breakdown is. Any links?

try this one mate www.meatspin.com/messivronaldostats2014

comment by Sheriff John Brown - bring back David Dein (U7482)
posted 3 minutes ago
Ronaldo has 56 goals this year for club and country, Messi has scored 42.
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Anywhere I can see calendar year stats? All I coould see checking theie ESPN profiles is Ronaldo having 83 goals in 85 games for club and country since the start of last season while Messi has 89 in 74 in he same period. And a lot more assists too. I don't know what the calendar year breakdown is. Any links?
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soccerway.com

I added them up myself.

try this one mate www.meatspin.com/messivronaldostats2014

It's not working.

do a space after the .com and its pretty easy to navigate from the home page

soccerway.com

I added them up myself.
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Could have just linked me with the pages rather than my navigating from the homepage. Would have to check that out later. Having a busy night.

http://ie.soccerway.com/national/spain/primera-division/20132014/regular-season/r21879/?ICID=HP_POP_04

Just click on Madrid/Barca fixtures and click a drop down for all their matches, it lists the scorers.

Not the sharpest tool in the box...

do a space after the .com and its pretty easy to navigate from the home page
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That still didn't help. you sure you copied that right?

Sheriff I can't tell if you are being serious or not, so just in case you aren't, DON'T open that meatspin link

batmanu obviously doesn't want you to open it as it makes his argument invalid

Well, you know what they say. "fool me once.........."

Meatspin

Something must be lost in cultural translation. What on earth is "meatspin"?

Oh, the wonders of Google has just revealed it to me.

I think I'm scarred for life.

Rinaldo should win it but mess will win it

Ronaldo had become only the second player in history to score a hat-trick against the same side for four consecutive seasons. Alfredo Di Stefano had previously done it against Las Palmas.

Why didnt you write the same article after the Classico on Saturday? I have nothing to add.

Ribery deserves it for what he achieved with Bayern

Dont worry 50P. Ribery will get this honour because he plays for Bayern and they won it all.