by azriahmad » Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:16 pm
Big Nial, I read somewhere that UEFA has a funny rule that a CL tie could not be played at the same venue in the same week.
Inter and AC Milan both played away in the first leg, and home in the second leg and as they share the San Siro, they are not allowed to host their home games in the same week. Quite silly then, to let both these Milan teams to play away in the same leg and become the host in the second leg. But then, UEFA has been known to be rather silly anyway.
Sometime back, Lenart Johansson, the then UEFA President (I don't know if he is still the President), wanted to challenge Sepp Blatter for the FIFA Presidency. He was trying to court the Asian and African delegates to vote for him as at that time the Africans and the Asians did not like Havalange who was the outgoing FIFA President who endorsed Baltter to take over from him. This silly Johansson made a racist remark upon entering a room full of Asian and African delegates (maybe he didn't realise that they were the very people he needed votes from) and called them "blackies". Needless to say, Blatter received such a handsome nomination that Johansson pulled out of the race. With this kind of leadership, it is no wonder at all if UEFA were full of silly people...