Not Quite the Complete Champions League Experience, but Who Needs Handel When You Can Have Hector Nicol?
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THIS was the Promised Land without the trimmings, although it came at a premium price. We got the GBP 5 match programme and the laminated passes. But Edinburgh was denied the full Champions League experience, for now. Handel was not playing ball. Or, at least, UEFA wasn't.
A decree had apparently come from on high denying teams in the qualifying rounds the right to use the officially endorsed orchestral version of Handel's Zadok the Priest, as heard before the kind of appetising encounter that UEFA clearly did not want contaminated by association with the lesser lights. They might have had a point.See the full content of this document
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Not Quite the Complete Champions League Experience, but Who Needs Handel When You Can Have Hector Nicol?
The motivation for Hearts' desperate and ultimately rewarding struggle to reach the Champions League last season was based around the sheer exclusiveness of the competition. Piping the theme music into grounds fro...
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