When a bride hired a choir to surprise her groom with the UCL anthem on their wedding day

Pat yourselves on the back football fans, you’ve made it through the drought to the return of the UEFA Champions League.

Europe’s premier club competition swings back into dramatic action this week as the Round of 16 clashes kick off across the continent.

The comically bungled double-draw eventually coughed up some superb ties with Real Madrid vs PSG undoubtedly the pick of the bunch.

However, Liverpool’s clash with Inter Milan carries with it some rather agreeable European glamour and nostalgia as two globally loved heavyweights of the game prepare to do battle.

Either way you cut it, however, be it a eye-catching titan-toppling affair or one of the perhaps less glamorous skirmishes, the knockout stages of the Champion League always guarantee drama.

It is an iconic tournament and the Valentine’s week return has become an institution in the football calendar of many a fan.

In truth, it’s a tournament that transcends the action on the pitch thanks to its evocative branding and spine-tingling anthem.

It is that anthem, the ballad the heralds the arrival of kick-off, that has become woven into the very fabric of the football fan’s favourite times of year.

So it is no surprise then that the anthem itself has made appearances in venues where perhaps it might not feel quite at home, but isn’t any less triumphant.

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One such occasion came in 2012 when a blushing bride to be hired a choir to sing the anthem at the wedding as a brilliant surprise for her groom.

The footage, which you can see below, captures the newly-wedded man’s superb reaction as he suddenly recognised the tune.

It took the lucky fellow only a few chords before the penny dropped and then he simply