City rivals bid for Champions League showcase

OLYMPIC bid rivals London and Paris are also going head to head for the right to host the 2007 Champions League final.

The FA are bidding to stage the final at the new Wembley stadium, but the Stade de France is being put up by the French federation as a possible venue.

Both Wembley and the Stade de France are key components of the bids by London and Paris for the 2012 Olympics.

UEFA’s executive committee willdecide the venues for the 2006 and 2007 UEFA Cup and Champions League finals at a meeting in Tallinn, Estonia next week.

Paris have applied for either year and Wembley for 2007 but there are other contenders too: Athens (2006 or 2007), Luzhniki, Moscow (2006), and the Olympiastadion, Berlin (2007).