If you head to UEFA’s official website, you will spot that they have bizarrely named Liverpool the winners of this season’s Champions League.
After a dramatic tie against AS Roma, Liverpool progressed to the final of the Champions League which will take place in Kiev. The Reds will face Real Madrid, who beat Bayern Munich to progress.
As is understandable, many supporters are anxious about their chances of beating the 12-time winners of the European Cup. In the last four years, Los Blancos have made it to the final three times, winning it on each occasion.
However, a bizarre discovery has been made on the official UEFA website which indicates that the Reds will be the winners of this season’s tournament.
The page which displayed the bizarre announcement featured above has been removed but it had named Liverpool as ‘Winners’ of the Champions League for the 2017/18 season.
While I don’t believe that there is any dodgy match-fixing or anything of the sort going on, it certainly does raise a few questions. Especially after the draw for the last four was made and a picture was shared by UEFA before the draw which had suspicious parallels between the teams that would be drawn to face each other.
The same thing occurred for the draw of the quarter-finals. The tweet below from Rousing the Kop columnist Michael Baddeley explains the conspiracy.
Obviously, this is all speculation and if Liverpool did win in the end, UEFA could just claim it was a page they had saved on their website and should have been set to private until the result of the final was made clear.
Regardless of the situation, it seems bizarre that an organisation would publish something like this in an era where online scrutiny is at its peak.
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