If Messi or Ribery wins, all eyes will be on the Manchester United man now
We reckon Rio Ferdinand is on pretty safe ground with this tweet, but it is still a pretty bold promise to make to his five million plus followers.
If @Cristiano doesn’t win the Balon D’or tonight…..I will run down the street butt naked! Won’t be a great sight I tell ya!! Come on CR7!
— Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) January 13, 2014
With his former team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo virtually unbackable at odds of 1/50 in some places, and with German newspaper BILD claiming the Real Madrid man has already won the award, this Ballon d’Or tweet shouldn’t come back to haunt Ferdinand.
Still, if somehow we get a shock result in Zurich tonight, we expect a lot of cameras to appear outside Rio’s house