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ruskiy playmaker wrote:

bavlondon wrote:I cant believe Moscow got it in the first place. The place is a shithole honestly.

Why, have you been there?

maypaxvobiscum wrote:stupid idea. the ECL wasnt created so an english club could win it so why the special treatment? each country have a chance to host the final each year and just because both clubs might be english doesnt mean it should be played in england, moscow will lose revenue, the russian football federation will rightly so feel ill-treated and the football fans there will feel cheated. put yourselves in their position and if the final was shifted to italy or spain instead.

2003 AC Milan vs Juventus (old trafford)
2000 Real Madrid vs Valencia (Stade De France)

Those are the only two European Cup finals involving sides from the same country I can find, obviously a tad difficult BEFORE they allowed non-Champions in and called it the Champion League  Did they move those finals? No, probably because they weren't so far east. Eastern European countries like Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland etc have never had the final. So it would seem UEFA are spreading it about, they're not likely to change the venue simply based on who is playing

VENUES (1990-2008)

2008 Moscow (Russia)
2007 Athens (Greece)
2006 Paris (France)
2005 Istanbul (Turkey)
2004 Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
2003 manchester (England)
2002 Glasgow (Scotland)
2001 Milan (Italy)
2000 Paris (France)
1999 Barcelona (Spain)
1998 Amsterdam (Holland)
1997 Munich (Germany)
1996 Rome (Italy)
1995 Vienna (Austria)
1994 Athens (Greece)
1993 Munich (Germany)
1992 London (England)
1991 Bari (Italy)
1990 Vienna (Austria)

It had rather leaned towards Western Europe for quite some time with Greece being about as close to Eastern Europe as it got. It was held in Yugoslavia back in 1973 and Belgium, Portugal and Switzerland not among those listed so very much leaned towards the major European footballing nations

And of course it makes the English look arrogant when some keep going on about odds on all-English finals and three out of four semi-finalists so we're 'dominating' the competition. We wouldn't even be the first country to have two teams in the final, and that despite having so many semi-finalists and the mancs bragging they were the best side in Europe for seven consecutive quarter-finals! Real Madrid trumped that bigtime with three wins in six seasons, but never mind hey

bavlondon wrote:I cant believe Moscow got it in the first place. The place is a shithole honestly.