Thursday 6 March 2008

ENGLISH TEAMS EDGE CLOSER TO EURO SUCCESS

Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea impressively reached the last eight of the Champions League this week, with Liverpool looking good to follow them into the quarter-finals.

And with Everton, Tottenham and even Bolton reaching the latter stages of the UEFA Cup, its looking for good for English clubs in Europe.

All of those teams, with the exception of Bolton, will feel they have a good shot at winning their European competition this season.

There has been much talk since England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008 that the Premier League is damaging England's chances of international success.

But some brilliant European performances this week have reminded us that the Premier League produces the strongest, and probably the most entertaining teams in world football - and we should be happy about that.