Now that the annoying international competition is out of the way, (at least until the Euro 2012 qualifiers start, where Ireland yet again won't qualify) the greatest football around starts soon. CLUB FOOTBALL. Why is it so great? Unlike international football where you can only play together with others by an accident of birth, in club football you truly can get the greatest players in the world playing alongside each other. They also play together more often which means in club football, you see the best football can offer.

In that capacity you must decide which LEAGUE is the best. There are a few decent leagues with decent teams, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal, Russia & England. Of that group probably 3 are the best (England, Italy & Spain) with maybe France, Russia & Portugal popping in now & then for sandwiches.

Of that top three you have the eternally corrupt Italian league which champions of League & Europe (Internazionale) consist of.....NO Italians in their team. Then you have Spain, a good league no doubt, but a league where you eternally have 20 teams in the Primera División of La Liga all playing the exact same way with varying degrees of success pending on the skill levels therein. Decent games show up but inevitably you're left with the same thought...I knew they'd win.

Last is the EPL, the English Premier League. The King, the daddy, the unrivalled. Nowhere else in the world do you see the excitement, the drive, the fouls, the spite & envy, the 5pm kick offs in Bolton in winter, the Andy Gray Final Thought, the Match of the Day theme tune, the Fergie Time, the Scouser Whine, the Chelski's, the Gooners, the Hammers, the Yids, The Bitter Blues of Liverpool AND Manchester, Mancini's scarves, Roy Hodgeson's inability to say 'R', Wenger moaning, Spurs fans unrealistic ambitions, Newcastle barcodes, Liver Birds, Red Devils, The Kop, The Stretford End, The Gladys Street End, The Council House, The Birmingham Yo-Yo Clubs, a trip to Blackpool, a trip to the Cottage. We have been blessed people. We have been blessed with the greatest sport in the world played in the greatest league competition in the world. Liverpool fans can look away but on top of that. We have the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, the utopia of club football. The greatest Club competition on the planet and I cannot wait. August 15th people. Set your alarms.


Why set a post up now? Why it's the Transfer Season Of Course!!!!! Out with the chaff, in with the new. Who are we getting? Who are we losing???

It starts here.