‘I Won the Ballon d’Or, Rejected Real Madrid & Almost Bankrupted Charlton Athletic’
Allan Simonsen’s career path is about as far from conventional as it gets. The Danish legend is a Ballon d’Or winner who lit up the footballing world with his goalscoring prowess in the late 70s and early 80s with Borussia Monchengladbach and Barcelona. However, his next move was to Charlton Athletic, then in England’s second…