UEFA have announced that Wembley Stadium in London will play host to the 2013 Champions League final following a highly successful staging of Barcelona's 3-1 win this year. It's unusual for one venue to host the final in years so close together, but with the amount of income brought into UEFA by massively overpriced tickets it's a no-brainer to stick the competition back in London after the 2012 final in Munich.
Wembley Stadium To Host 2013 UEFA Champions League Final
But why stop here? How about moving every final to London to maximise profit? Oooh, an even better idea: Give Barcelona and Manchester United byes to the finals every year - everyone likes watching those two teams. Oh, and UEFA can divert some of the profits into freezing everyone's age so it can be the same lineups playing each other, year after year after year... wait, I'm fantasising. Clearly Sir Alex Ferguson would play Anderson instead next time.
At any rate, if UEFA want to make blatant cash-grabs, fair play to them. They are, after all, interested in maximising their incomes. The problem will be when they don’t own up to it - and we can be pretty sure they’ll have invented a convoluted answer as to just why the final’s going back to London rather than just telling the truth. Anyway, there are plenty of excellent venues across Europe that deserve to host the match just as much as Wembley does, and ignoring them seems contrary to the entire point of the Champions League in the first place. Que sera sera, I suppose.
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