Firstly, the change stopping CL teams dropping down to the EL has been great for the EL. Those years we got 2 semis and a final we lost to teams down from the CL.

BUT that would be great if the strength in depth of the PL wasn't so much more than the other big European leagues. It really could lead to all English finals for a while. You'd expect any PL team other than the relegated 3 to beat all those teams Sperz played en route to the final. Hope the Eagles win it next year.

However, ignoring that, we'd have loved to have won the EL those 3 years we came close. And of our FA Cup wins, does anyone remember the years we won playing mainly non-top flight teams, or without leaving London? Did we care when we won the final?

I just hope we've had all our injury bad luck in one go, and we have an injury free season next year, with Odin et al getting back to their very best and beyond.

That early goal vs PSG was a killer. A few inches either way and they wouldn't have scored and we could have gone on with the crowd buzzing and growing in strength. We also had enough chances to still turned 'round the tie. B scores that tap in at 3-1 down on aggregate and we could well have pushed on for an equalizer and ET.

We did all of that without either of our strikers, our two first choice LCHs, Wigwam banned for the first leg and literally no-one to bring off the bench unless we needed a few more LBs.

I guess the plus side of last night is that ManU can't offer CL football