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European club football鈥檚 most prized asset will find its home for the next year in Madrid as this year鈥檚 final is held between city rivals Real and Atletico. So Madrid will be a party city, but a word of warning to the winning team's players - make sure you look after the trophy - because the strangest thing can happen during post-match festivities, as Colin Gibson, part of the Aston Villa squad of 1982, and the policeman who eventually recovered the trophy, testifies. It is the story of how the European Cup was stolen from a pub!

Marketability
Lewis Hamilton has topped a list of the world鈥檚 most marketable sports person of 2014. We look at the newly published SportsPro magazine list with editor David Cushnan and speak to a new entrant on the list, British athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson (28th) and her agent Jonathan Marks.

The Peerless Perales
While Madrid waits to see who will be football heroes on Saturday, Steve Crossman has been speaking to a well-established Spanish sporting legend Teresa Perales. Despite only learning to swim aged 19, the Paralympian has as many Paralympic medals as Michael Phelps does Olympic ones.

Hypocritical Oath?
This week eight former American football players started legal action against the NFL, the league's governing body, over medications they say were obtained illegally and given as painkillers to numb injuries without regard for future health concerns. We hear from a former Premier League physiotherapist who has experienced the pressure from players and managers to 'get a player fit'.

Belize Release Me, Let me Go
Commonwealth Games contender Kent Gabourel is a former professional soccer player turned triathlete who is using sport to try and move local teenagers away from crime. Gang membership is viewed by some in his native Belize as the route to an easy life.

Pen and Teller
Britain鈥檚 Olympic modern pentathlon silver medallist Heather Fell tells us about her new sporting challeng - no running, swimming, horse riding or shooting - just her, the open seas, and the latest leg of the Round the World Yacht race.

Binding the Balkans
In the first of our series looking at the political impact of the World Cup, Mani Djazmi focuses on the only team making its debut in the tournament: Bosnia. At the same time neighbours Serbia are not going to Brazil. Hear from Bosnia captain Emir Spahic and from Serbia academic Dejon Zac.

Sporting Witness
In May 1964, at least 300 football fans died in rioting in Lima after a goal was disallowed in a match between Peru and Argentina. It's thought to be the worst stadium disaster in football history, but has never been properly investigated. We hear from the Peruvian captain and a survivor of the riots.

Picture: European Champions' League Trophy, Credit: Fabrice Coffrin/EuroFootball/Getty Images

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