Footbal Match Man U vs Chelsea Live - 21.05.2008

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The Moscow Stadium

A visitor takes a picture of the UEFA Champions League trophy

Chelsea seek to tear up the script as history beckons for United (Wed May 21)

The first all-English final of the Champions League was always going to be a dramatic affair.

But it would have been hard to predict an encounter quite as rich in sub-plots as Wednesday’s meeting between Manchester United and Chelsea at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium.

Looming largest of all in the backdrop to the 2008 edition of club football’s biggest match is the sense of history weighing down on United as they bid to claim the club’s third European Cup in a year that has marked both the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster as well as 40 years since they became the first English club to lift the trophy

Tags: Avram Grant, Barclays Premiership, chelsea, Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Lampard, Manchester United, Ricardo Carvalho, rooney, Ryan Giggs, UEFA, UEFA Champions League

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 at 7:24 pm and is filed under Match Highlights, News, UEFA.

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