Champions League 2023-24 group stage draw: Manchester United land Bayern – live
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Eric Abidal and Joe Cole are this evening’s special guests and thus are called onto the stage to help conduct the draw. Both have ties to the final location, Wembley, with Cole a Londoner and Abidal having lifted the Champions League at Wembley in 2011 when Barça beat smashed Manchester United.
The suits await in their masses packed inside the Grimaldi Forum as Pedro and Reshim go through their preamble. Time for a dramatic montage of last year’s Champions League on the screens.