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24th February 2022
10:53am GMT
It is worth noting that tweets like this are probably scheduled well in advance, with the intention of promoting Europe's second rate club competition, which is always played on Thursdays. Let's hope it was scheduled, anyway.
However, the timing could not have been worse for such a sentiment to be expressed by an organisation under increasing pressure to make their own stand against Putin's Russia.
The tweet received countless replies, all of which pretty much conveyed the same response: "Really? Now?"
https://twitter.com/Maliprinc_19/status/1496797775236898816
UEFA are facing mounting pressure to change the location of the Champions League final this season, with the match due to be held in St Petersburg's Gazprom Arena.
This obviously creates some serious moral dilemmas for European football's governing body, for whom Gazprom are a primary sponsor.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has called on English teams to boycott the Champions League final, should they make it that far in the competition.
"I would personally not want to be playing in a football match in St Petersburg given what the Putin regime is doing," she said.
https://twitter.com/JOE_co_uk/status/1496414912880463872
But then again, hearing cabinet ministers tell footballers to take a political stance just months after they were told to stick to football by Priti Patel - and given the history of the Tory party - is unlikely to strike a cord with the best athletes in the country.
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1496429207462858753
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