Harry Kane, Kylian Mbappe and Lamine Yamal were all bizarrely listed as winners of the Ballon d’Or on the organisers’ website hours before the ceremony began in London.
The trio have all been viewed among the leading candidates to land football’s biggest individual prize for the first time.
Prior to the event at the London Palladium, the Ballon d’Or’s official website appeared to mistakenly publish three separate articles announcing them individually as the winner.
Daily Mail Sport alerted the organisers to the mistake at 5.23pm and it triggered a series of frantic phone calls and WhatsApp messages.
Shocked organisers have since launched an investigation, with articles announcing
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