This season's UEFA Champions League Final will see Chelsea and Manchester United go head to head in arguably the biggest match ever played between two English clubs.

Of course it's not being played on English soil, with both teams and their fans travelling to Moscow for the 21 May showdown.

Europe's top club competition has never featured two English sides in the Final before. But Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers did contest the UEFA Cup Final over two legs in 1972. Two Martin Chivers goals won the first leg 2-1 for Spurs and the return finished in a 1-1 draw in front of 54,000 at White Hart Lane.

In the early years of the competition two English sides couldn't meet, because only the League Champions were able to enter. Manchester United entered as holders in 1968, but avoided Manchester City in the First Round draw and City were surprisingly knocked out by Fenerbahce from Turkey.

In 1977 Liverpool won the 'European Cup', as we called it in those days, but they were League Champions too.

A year later there was a famous match-up between two English teams. Bob Paisley's Liverpool, European Cup holders again, were drawn to play Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest in the First Round. It finished 2-0 to Forest at the City Ground and 0-0 at Anfield.

Manchester United, the first to book their place in this year's Champions League Final, have met Chelsea twice in The FA Cup Final - in 1994 and 2007. Last year's showpiece, the first at the new Wembley, was watched by 89,826 spectators inside Wembley, 12.9 million viewers on UK television and about 450 million worldwide. Domestically, it could hardly have been a bigger match.

But Chelsea v Manchester United in Moscow for the European Crown…it really doesn't get much bigger than that.