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Champions League final: Should Uefa be more flexible about host cities for environmental reasons?

For the fifth time in nine seasons the Champions League final will be contested by teams from the same country.

And for the fifth time in nine seasons, players, officials and supporters will travel en masse to a different country for European football's showpiece event.

After much deliberation, Uefa moved the 29 May match between Manchester City and Chelsea from Istanbul to Porto because of coronavirus restrictions in Turkey, cutting travelling time and cost for fans in the process.

But having taken drastic action because of Covid, have they failed to suitably consider the environmental impact of thousands of supporters flying almost 1,000 miles for a game which could have been played in England?