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Europe's club football finals - thoroughly (un)English affairs

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Getty Images | A billboard for the UEFA Europa League Final 2019 between Chelsea and Arsenal in Baku. Columnist Simon Chadwick and Paul Widdop calls the all-English European finals an un-English affair.

Professor Simon Chadwick and Dr Paul Widdop look in this column at the upcoming all-English European finals.

The most un-English of English matches: “The finals will be played in English name only,” they write.

28 May 2019 - 7:00 AM

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