article_snippet: Despite the 18,000 crowd with Monaco renaissance, the Principality, with a population of 38,000, unsurprisingly struggles to fill the stadium, even on big European nights.
article_snippet: It perhaps should come as no surprise that a tax haven inhabited by the super rich should lack passion —
article_snippet: but it was difficult to avoid the comparison with the ferocious atmosphere of Atletico Madrid’s Vicente Calderon Stadium, the other venue hosting a Champions League fixture on Tuesday night.
article_snippet: Monaco’s Stade Louis II stadium had all the intensity of a yacht club soiree.