Moscow Misery For Fans
What´s 200 yards long and eats potatoes? A Moscow queue waiting to buy meat. Can you Adam and Eve it? Two English teams contesting the Champions League final and where are they playing it? One of mainland Europe´s most far flung outposts that´s where.
I´m sure Moscow has many plus points but to haul 50,000 plus English football fans on a 3000 mile round trip is taking the piss. Surely Uefa are going to see sense, step in and change the venue to Wembley? As if!
There would have been more chance of Boris Yeltsin staying off the sauce over Christmas than Uefa actually showing some initiative for a change. Fans aren´t even able to apply for visas for travel today because it´s a national holiday in Russia and when they finally do get through to the proper diplomatic channels they can expect a wait over a week for one.
It´s going to be one of the biggest ticketing disasters of all time, make no mistake about it and yet again it´s the genuine fans who will suffer. Reports from Moscow say that ALL the hotels in town are already booked and that goes for the flights as well - save for the extortionate club charters that will be put on. It´s going to cost bombs to get there.
But at least the Ruskies have got one thing right. They are giving away free Ladas at the airport, which is handy as the last six pages of the users´ manual lists the Moscow bus and train time tables. What do you call a Lada at the top of a hill? A miracle.
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