Bayern Munich v Chelsea: live Paul Oakenfold! 17.21 And here's Mayor of London Boris Johnson, employing a rather narrow definition of London... 17.18 "Had that John Terry in the back of my van the other night..." 17.15 So let's turn our attentions to Bayern Munich. They've had a strange sort of season, really. They managed to keep hold of most of their stars during the summer and shored up the back five with the signings of Manuel Neuer, Rafinha and Jerome Boateng. Curiously, though, it was going forward where they looked most impressive. They put five goals past Hamburg, six past Hertha Berlin, seven past Hoffenheim, Freiburg and Basel. Mario Gomez has scored 41 in all competitions this season. Winning the Champions League on home soil would most likely be the most glorious moment in the club's history. But it's been a dissatisfying season too, for so many reasons. Borussia Dortmund sealed their status as the leading team in German football by winning a second consecutive Bundesliga with a record points tally, doing the treble over Bayern in the process. Dortmund won both league fixtures 1-0 before thrashing them 5-2 in the German cup final in Berlin last weekend. For Bayern, ascension to the top step of European football may well coincide with their displacement from the pinnacle of the German game. They've got players missing, too. David Alaba is suspended at left-back, which means the solid but unspectacular Diego Contento will start only his eighth game of the season. Luis Gustavo and Holger Badstuber are also out, which means Anatoliy Tymoshchuk will start at centre-back and Toni Kroos will start deeper, next to Bastian Schweinsteiger. Neither man is a natural firefighter; both like to get forward. Schweinsteiger is at his best when starting deep alongside a tough-tackling defensive midfielder. Instead, he and Kroos will have to take it in turns to keep watch. It's up front, though, where Bayern need to make it count. Chelsea will play on the counter-attack, no question about that; Bayern need to pin Chelsea as far back as possible without committing too many men to the advance. It's likely Chelsea will double up on both Robben and Ribery, which is why Thomas Muller is such a key player for Bayern tonight. He needs to pick the key pass - one of his strengths - but he needs to do it quickly as well. Gomez will also be crucial in occupying both centre-backs with lateral runs into the channels. Tactics. 16.30 BREAKING NEWS We're hearing Ryan Bertrand is going to start for Chelsea tonight. The most likely scenario is that he's going to play in front of Ashley Cole in an attempt to double up on Arjen Robben. Because that's exactly what you want: two left-footed players against a man who's absolutely determined to cut inside. Robben, you sense, would rather boot the ball out of play than take the ball outside onto his weaker right foot. For me, Mikel would have been a better covering option. But then, I've never reached a Champions League final, so I guess we'll see... It was all going so well for Eintracht Frankfurt. They'd denied Rangers a dream final in their home city by narrowly shading their semi-final, um, 12-4 on aggregate (Real, for their part, had put nine past the mighty Wolverhampton Wanderers in the quarter-finals). They'd overcome their own FA, who had tried to ban them from playing the final because of the presence of Ferenc Puskas in the Real Madrid team. European football and European politics were more or less inseparable in the 1950s. And, in the 18th minute against Real Madrid, Richard Kress gave them an early 1-0 lead. Unfortunately, that's as good as it got for them. Real claimed their fifth consecutive 'Champions Cup' with a 7-3 victory, courtesy of a hat-trick from Alfredo di Stefano and four goals from Puskas. Remarkably, only one hat-trick has been scored in a European Cup final since then. Fernando Torres, you know what to do. 16.00 This time last year, Gary Cahill was playing for Bolton Wanderers in their 4-3 defeat to Blackpool. He did a fairly sound marking job on Gary Taylor-Fletcher, and was shown a yellow card late on for a foul on Charlie Adam. Tonight, he's playing in the Champions League final for Chelsea, against Bayern Munich. Perhaps, we might reflect as we gird our loins in anticipation of the biggest fixture in domestic football, the greasy pole to fame is not quite as slippery as we imagine. For all we hear of the two Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, for all the dominance of Spain on the international stage, the fact that neither half of El Clasico features tonight is perhaps proof that world football is not a Hispanocracy. The sixth-best team in England could claim the greatest prize in the club game tonight, which should be some sort of rejoinder to those sounding the death knell for English football. What of Chelsea? What of emaciated, threadbare Chelsea? Could Ryan Bertrand (who spent part of last season on loan at Nottingham Forest) really be in contention to start on the left of midfield in a Champions League final? Could Frank Lampard really give Bastian Schweinsteiger a beasting? Could Nathaniel Chalobah really come on a substitute? All will be revealed over the next three and three quarter hours. We'll have tactical disseminations, we'll have classic Champions League finals relived through the medium of YouTube, we'll have all the latest team news and colour from Munich, and then, at some stage in the very distant future, we should have a football game for a metal trophy. Lend us your eyes and send us your emails. It should be quite a ride. Boris Becker runs the rule over the Bayern Munich side Pat Cash's guide to Chelsea squad All right, that's a joke. Alan Smith's tactical guide to the final Chelsea's top 10 nights in Europe Paul Hayward on Chelsea's unsung hero