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Last Modified: 21 May 2008
By: Nick Paton Walsh

Forty thousand English football fans hit Moscow for tonight's Champions League final - to find no alcohol, no big screens and 6,000 troops and police there to welcome them.

Over 40,000 English football fans are in Moscow for tonight's Champions League Final between two of the giants of English football - Manchester United and Chelsea.

Eighteen English police officers are advising their Moscow counterparts and the Russian authorities have deployed 6,000 police and interior troops to avoid a repeat of the violence that marred the Uefa cup in Manchester last week.

Alcohol is banned in public areas, there will be no big screens and 700 buses have been lined up to take supporters to the stadium.

Our foreign affairs correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is in Moscow:

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