Overpriced tickets, empty seats, uninspiring format – Uefa has diluted Champions League’s allure

Little can dilute the San Siro’s distinction as a soaring citadel of the game, a monolith whose giant concrete towers and protruding red girders often strike terror into the hearts of opponents. Except this enfeebled Milan team are ill-equipped to match the grandeur of their setting. Essentially a collection of Chelsea cast-offs, they have such scant hope of adding to this club’s seven European Cup triumphs that the loudest sound they elicited from the Curva Sud on Tuesday night was a shrill cho