Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
If Michel Platini is serious about expanding the franchise in the Champions League to include lesser-known teams, then he has ample evidence for doing so from those lesser-known teams already. Here comes a fun sentence. Let it roll around on the eye-palate for a minute.
FC Rubin Kazan beat Barcelona 2-1 yesterday.
Just a hop, skip, and a bound from Nizhniy Novgorod, FC Rubin Kazan were the Russian Premier League champions last year, so it’s not completely insane they would offer stiff competition for Barcelona. What is completely insane: beating Barca 2-1 on Camp Nou, the football equivalent of App State beating Michigan in the Big House and what the BBC is calling one of the biggest upsets in club football history.
Add this to Dynamo Kiev taking Inter Milan to a 2-2 draw, and we’re talking an 1812 kind of day for Russian football in the Champions’ League.
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