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Sportshour: The Road to the Kyiv Free Couch

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The Road to the Kiev Free Couch

26/05/2018 GMT

The Road to the Kyiv Free Couch

BBC World Service - Sportshour, The Road to the Kyiv Free Couch

Victor Kylyma has invited fans to stay at his home for the Champions League final.

Liverpool and Real Madrid fans have been angered by the extortionate prices of hotel rooms leaving many fans in chaos for finding affordable accommodation. It’s not difficult to find Victor Kylyma in central Kiev – he explains to Caroline why he took to Social Media to invite football fans to stay in his home for free. He has had over 8000 people join his group and he is also offering to be tour guides or to cook traditional meals for their guests, including a chicken Kiev supper.

Staying with the Champions League, the theme tune can be traced back nearly 300 years to German-born composer Georg Frideric Handel, and re-versioned by composer Tony Britten – Caroline has been speaking to Tony about that iconic tune.

Also, the Egyptian international Mo Salah has, unwittingly, become a standard-bearer for the Arabic and Muslim communities and his impact has spread from Anfield, through the streets of his adopted city to the wider world. Rahul Tandon has been to Liverpool to find out.

This week, the NFL announced that teams will be fined if their players kneel during the national anthem.

The American football league said players who do not stand for the Star-Spangled Banner can stay in the locker room until it has been performed. The new policy is aiming to combat demonstrations which spread throughout the game after former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee to protest police brutality and racial inequality in 2016. As a result, NFL teams have refused to sign Kaepernick leaving him a free agent after two seasons.

We speak to former NFL player Henry Burris who believes this policy portrays that the players are yet again the bad guys whereas SuperBowl champion Rocky Boiman believes the punishment should be more severe to those who disrespect the anthem. He says the NFL should be stronger rather than leaving each team to come up with their own working rules to obey the anthem.

One of the world’s top female racing car drivers, Leilani Munter has taken pole position in a campaign to reduce overpopulation - and has vowed not to have children herself. With the global population at 7.3 billion and a growth rate of 300,000 people per day, Munter aims to address the growing world population by promoting smaller families, she is urging fellow women to stay child free to protect the environment. At one stage, Leilani did imagine herself to have children with her husband so what changed? She reveals all to Caroline. 

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