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So that's up to 8000 UK based fans that could be travelling to Turkey for the CL final. A country currently in lockdown due to the number of Covid cases they've got. UEFA say that it's not possible to move the location of the final, despite the fact that last year they moved the finals to Portugal due to the Covid situation.

Sounds like too much common sense and no doubt some sort of money on the line.

Just switch it to Wembley and provide Turkey with some financial compensation- UEFA can afford it
 

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UEFA, looking out for the real football fans as they keep telling us, yeah of course they are, thats why Chelsea and Arsenal went to Baku

With Covid going on finals should def be moved if 2 clubs from the same country in the final

You just know if UEFA agreed to change it the FA would say Wembley is booked and we can't change that.
 

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Can’t belive you don’t watch the games.
In my modest opinion.
In the past City’s defence just wasn’t good enough.
But you scared the life out of Prem teams with your strikers so nobody really had a go at you.
This masked the defensive problems.
Big European teams were not scared of you and they beat you.
That’s not the case anymore and you have the best defence you have had for a very long time.
And it shows in the way you play, knowing you have a first class defence frees the midfield and forwards to express themselves.
It’s good to watch.
The only thing that stumped me is how did Fernandinho not get a card last night.;)

Well I don't have BT Sport so that's the reason really.
 

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Well done Chelsea deserved to go through easily, but Real were poor. So wish Arsenal had gone for Tuchel....might have his work cut out to stop us conceding goals though.
Must move the final to Wembley absolutely crazy to go Turkey.
 

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Interesting question. It appears that fans may well be back in stadiums for the last 2 matches of the season but home fans only. Does, this give an unfair advantage to those teams needing to produce results in those 2 matches
Turkey is in full lockdown I thought.
How are they getting around that?

Think they come out of lockdown in about 10 days so in time but still a number of variables. The lockdown could be extended, Turkey may not be on the UK travel list, crowds may not be allowed in stadiums etc. Common sense would say to move the match to the UK but then again, there are 2 French teams in the rugby European cup final and that is sill being played at Twickenham so common sense is not always a factor.
 

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Interesting question. It appears that fans may well be back in stadiums for the last 2 matches of the season but home fans only. Does, this give an unfair advantage to those teams needing to produce results in those 2 matches


Think they come out of lockdown in about 10 days so in time but still a number of variables. The lockdown could be extended, Turkey may not be on the UK travel list, crowds may not be allowed in stadiums etc. Common sense would say to move the match to the UK but then again, there are 2 French teams in the rugby European cup final and that is sill being played at Twickenham so common sense is not always a factor.


In the prem league theyve changed fixture dates so every club gets 1 home and 1 away so all clubs have equal opportunity for having fans at a home game
 
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