CL Final Venue | Stade de France named as new venue

It’s not stopped many other finals and events in sporting history…

The 1966 World Cup and Euro 96 were held in England despite Britain’s involvement in Northern Ireland/“The Troubles” throughout the decades.
The 2018 World Cup was held in Russia despite them doing this to Ukraine for years. They also held the 2014 Winter Olympics right at the time they invaded Ukraine for the first time.
A Europa League final was held in Baku despite the Azerbaijan-Armenia wars over the ethnic Armenian area of Nagorno-Karabakh.
They were going to hold last year’s final in Istanbul despite Turkey pushing ethnic Kurds from their own land, in a war that has been ongoing since 1978.
Cameroon is currently in a Civil War yet it held the ACON (a Senator was assassinated during the tournament and about 500k people have been forced to leave their homes in the last 3 years).
USSR and China have been(/were) allowed to compete at sporting tournaments despite their Communist regimes killing over 100m of their own citizens over about ¾ of a century (although Cambodia didn’t compete in the Olympics for decades). Moscow hosted the 1980 Olympics despite USSR contesting borders with Afghanistan and other neighbours.
China has been at war or in conflict with many neighbours, including Turkestan and Tibetan nationalists within China… yet they were given the 2008 Olympics and the current Winter Olympics.
Even back in Nazi Germany, the 1936 Olympics were held there.
You know your stuff, mate x
 
It's obvious that if Russia goes into Ukraine, then all kinds of sanctions will follow regardless of all the wars and conflicts that have accompanied past sporting events.
 
Not going to happen, Putin is taking the piss and the west is falling for it.

Biden and Boris need a war to deflect attention away from the sh1t they have caused on their own doorstep.
 
Why are we ? If you are cold put another jumper on and run about a bit.

Well that's what my mam always told me when I complained, oh and when she said run around a bit she meant outside !
My mum did the same but sadly and not for the better most people are utter pussies.

Added to the fact that gas is used for generating electricity and enormous amounts are used in industry, so basically were f@@ed if it's switched off.
 
They won't be invading Ukraine anytime soon, if ever
I would have said same until yesterday but I cannot imagine why the US would leak info that the invasion was expected Tuesday, unless that was genuine. It must have wiped billions if not trillions off the value of world markets, which would be a crazy thing to do if not absolutely true.

Of course, it might not now happen Tuesday, but I am now pretty sure Putin was/is planning to do it.
 
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