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Rooney reveals a wild night of Champions League partying

Manchester Utd man attended shortest celebration of all time

This morning’s Sun newspaper tells us how Wayne Rooney is looking to recreate a night of sleeping on the floor, because the last time he did it was the evening Manchester Utd [...]

Olympic Flashback: Seb Coe

It was Moscow, it was 1980, no Americans were there…

Back in the days before he became the right honorable Lord and Baron Sebastian Newbold Coe, this weedy-looking conservative was one hell of [...]

The curse of John Terry

Terry plays, Chelsea lose

John Terry splits opinion – some consider him a great defender and leader of men, others find him to be a hateful little toad who has the oily look of a man who hangs around nightclubs at closing time looking for snogs/sex. The Spoiler has [...]

Big news from Russia – it’s really blooming COLD!

United fans outnumber Chelsea ones

The Spoiler‘s Russian correspondent reports that Moscow is absolutely bloody freezing and awash with a heavy rain, the likes of which may never be seen on these shores – a cold, hard rain that isn’t quite hail. All of a sudden, those big furry [...]

Five ways to make tomorrow’s Champions League final

Feeling a bit sensitive because you missed out on the big tickets? Oh stop whining, man – they’ve got loads left!

United fans, if it’s not too late, and if you really love your team as much as your weeping suggests, why not head over to Moscow and cheer [...]

Thinking of going to Moscow? Read this first

The struggle to join Sir John Major at the UCL final rages on If you are planning to head behind the Iron Curtain for the May 21 Champions League final, it seems you will need to earn the equivalent of the GDP of a medium-sized African nation to stand a chance of securing transportation.

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Arsenal think they’ve made the Champions League final

Presumptuous web geeks build page dedicated to Moscow game

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While casually searching for an image of the Luzhniki Stadium, I was pointed in the direction of this page from the Arsenal website. It’s fair enough that the Gunners built a page in [...]

Vote: Who will win the Champions League?

England’s two best teams travel 1600 miles in search of neutral venue

Some facts about the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow: It holds nearly 85,000 people, it used to be called the ‘Central Lenin Stadium’ and it has hosted concerts by hair metal gods such as [...]