The Champions League Final takes place in St Petersburg on May 28, and there is every chance we’ll be watching an all-English contest.
In recent years we’ve had Liverpool v Tottenham and Chelsea v Manchester City.
Could it be Jurgen Klopp v Pep Guardiola in Russia in May?
Of course, it all depends on what the draw throws up but they are both looking very good.
There are other teams capable of winning the tournament, the main ones being Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.
Both clubs have fantastic records in European football and cannot be taken lightly.
But there is something about the English clubs just now. Chelsea just won the World Club Championship and deserved to do so.
Man City destroyed Sporting Lisbon 5-0 in Portugal last midweek.
They were a wee bit fortunate with a couple of their gals but they were worthy of that margin. Pep was delighted and rightly so.
Liverpool then won 2-0 against Inter in the San Siro. I never thought the lads would lose the game. I was confident.
They are now clear favourites to progress to the quarter-finals.
I’m pretty sure City would want to avoid Liverpool in the draw and vice versa.
At the moment City are the team to beat. Pep hasn’t won the Champions League with City and there will be a real desire and determination to do so.
He wants to win every competition he takes part in. But I don’t think he will be obsessed about it.
It will just be a competition he wants to win, the same as he is with the Premiership title and the domestic trophies.
© Michael Zemanek/ShutterstockThe English clubs are extremely strong just now and they could be for a while to come.
But for all their heroics in Europe, the result of the week belonged to Rangers after their 4-2 win against Borussia Dortmund.
It was an outstanding performance and a scoreline that, with all due respect to Rangers, not even Mystic Meg would have predicted.
I watched the game and they deserved to win. It wasn’t like they were hanging on or Allan McGregor was overworked.
They attacked the German side and Giovanni van Bronckhorst clearly got his tactics spot on.
However, this tie isn’t over. Dortmund are still very much in it and they will come to Ibrox this week and have a go. They only need to win by two goals to force extra time. And if Erling Haaland is fit to play then it will give Marco Rose’s men confidence.
That said, Gers are clear favourites and their performance on Thursday night would have made many sit up and take notice.
Ryan Kent played very well and so did Alfredo Morelos and Borna Barisic. It was a solid – and effective – team display. I fancy Rangers to go through but it could be a nervy 90 minutes in Glasgow.
Celtic face a more difficult task to overcome their 3-1 deficit to Bodo.
It was a surprise to see Ange Postecoglou’s men lose by such a margin at home.
Bodo defeated Roma 6-1 earlier in the season so we were all aware of what they were capable of doing.
Ange and his players now need to regroup and find a way of scoring over there. It’s still very much game-on and if they can score first then all the better.
Ange will want to progress in this tournament and he will not be feeling that this game is beyond them.
Callum McGregor and the players will be ready to go to Norway and turn things around.
But they know they will need to defend better and also be more clinical.
The evidence from this season is that Celtic can win this tie but it’s going to take a monumental display.
It would be great to see both Scottish clubs in the draw for their respective European competitions.
That’s what we’d all like, and that’s why I wish them both the very best of luck on Thursday evening.
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