Women’s Champions League gets a revamp

It would be easy to scoff at UEFA commissioning an anthem for the revamped Women’s Champions League. But there is no doubting Tony Britten’s Handel adaptation has become an intrinsic part of the success of the men’s competition, recognisable worldwide as the sound of the Champions League. Players and coaches talk about how, when they stand on the pitch hearing it before a game for the first time, they know they have arrived in the sport’s elite club competition.

So there is emotional as well as marketing logic in creating a soundtrack for the women’s