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B/R Football Ranks

Ranking The Best Champions League Finals

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8819 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This Saturday should have been the 2020 Champions League Final, with thousands descending on the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, 15 years after the Miracle of Istanbul in 2005 took place on the same turf. Other circumstances mean that can't be the case, but we thought it was a good time to look back on the last 20 finals and rank them in terms of entertainment, drama and footballing quality.  Would the last visit to the Ataturk top the list? Or could it be topped by La Decima, or the Madness in Moscow, or one of the Wembley wonders? Only one way to find out... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Afonzo Davies and you're listening to BR Football Ranks and the bonus you guys back.

0:27.6

Hello and welcome to be our football ranks, your favourite football podcast.

0:33.2

My name is Jack Collins and I am joined by the one and only. Sam Thai, Sam, how are you doing?

0:39.9

I'm good, mate, thank you. You described me as the one and only. I'm pretty sure there's at least one more of me if you Google me because I've tried to find them in the past.

0:41.7

Facebook is a treasure trove for that.

0:43.4

It's a rare name, but there are some of us.

0:45.3

But thank you for the venerable introduction.

0:47.9

I'm actually one of many, many, many Jack Collins is.

0:57.2

Imagine that. shame really but I think I might be the only Jack J Colin so we'll take that at the moment this is what I'm running with what I'm running with how are you did you enjoy the football at the weekend I did me yes it did another weekend of Bundesliga action it goes down pretty smooth at the

1:02.8

moment doesn't it I don't know I mean obviously this was never planned but the two weekends of

1:08.3

fixtures that we've had so far since the return have been pretty special.

1:11.8

There have been a lot of goals.

1:13.4

The best teams in the league have played very, very well.

1:16.1

The behind closed doors element has ended up really benefiting them, I think, and the quality is shining through.

1:20.4

And once everybody gets past the sort of weird atmosphere, it's actually been pretty enthralling. And when you see Bayern and Dortmund and Leipzig and Leverkusen,

1:28.6

racking up goals, racking up scorelines and performing to the best of their abilities,

1:32.0

more or less immediately, that really helps you kind of latch onto it and continue to enjoy it.

1:36.8

Yeah, we saw a couple of slow starts the first weekend.

1:39.2

Leipzig, maybe a little bit unlucky in some ways, but they really turned it on this weekend,

1:43.8

didn't they?

1:44.3

Oh, they did, yeah. I mean, even the famous Dean Jones, you know, Sillard Paternity Leave was

1:48.4

texting us on the weekend going, oh my God, look at Leipzig. Of course, they beat

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