Since discussions on the subject have apparently been going on for some days in the corridors of Nyon, you would imagine the question of whether Russia gets to stage the Champions League final, at the St Petersburg stadium which was a Vladimir Putin vanity project, would have been resolved by UEFA now.
But this is sport we are discussing, a realm where money talks and any notion of a moral compass has vanished.
So, as of Tuesday night, all we had from the governing body was the kind of nauseating press-release-speak which we have become painfully accustomed to, as narcissists like Putin have bathed in sport’s reflected glories.