IS THE PREMIER LEAGUE STILL THE BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD

After Man Uniteds courageous exit from the Champions League at the hands of Real Madrid, and Arsenals imminent bow to Bayern Munich, this Champions League looks like it is going to be the first in 17 years to not feature a single English side in the Quarter-Finals. You would have to go back to the 1995/1996 season, when Blackburn, the only English

Gerard Houllier faced some tricky selection decisions going into a difficult game against a Chelsea side desperate to arrest their recent decline in form. Villas own squad, reeling from a thumping at Eastlands on Tuesday, clearly needed some form of shake Reggie Perry Jersey up, and Houlliers solution was to recall Richard Dunne, recently stripped