Football Daily | It’s the end of the Champions League as

Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid are preparing to battle it out in the pinnacle of European football on Saturday night at Wembley, in front of 25,000 sponsors supping on pints of Gazprom and a handful of supporters from each club. This will be the end of Big Cup as we know it. After decades of appeasing the suits without causing too much harm to the competition, it seems Uefa has finally reached an end game when it comes to all that is logical with football.

If we are talking about the re-saleable variety in managers as action figures (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) then Roy Hodgson has a huge amount of incarnations. There’s Gentleman Roy for his general demeanour, Adventurer Roy for his varied career, Sailor Roy for his approach to scouting opponents, Bus Driver Roy for his approach to tactics and Maverick Roy for when he occasionally surprises. You could also have a Sidekick Ray toy as another potential revenue stream” – Andy Gill.