Who is ready for some Europa League action? Anybody? No?

Yes, tonight we have the final group stages of this year's Europa League and Newcastle, Liverpool and Spurs are all in action.

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Platini Europe plans wrong way to go

The new plan suggested by Michel Platini to expand the Champions League is illogical and lacks any significant purpose.

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Hooligans are still alive and well in football

Just ask 25 year old Tottenham fan Ashley Mills who was stabbed in a bar in Rome before his side met Lazio in a Europa League tie.

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City will have to wait... again

They didn’t exactly crash out of the competition, but after their game against Borussia Dortmund next month Manchester City will no longer be competing in this season’s Champions League.

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Berbatov boosts Fulham

From narrowly avoiding relegation to qualifying for Europe and then reaching the Europa League final, one can never be quite sure what to expect from Fulham.  However, having acquired a striker who is a two-time Premier League winner, Fulham’s attack now poses a serious threat to any team, as Arsenal found out at the Emirates Stadium last weekend.

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Why the Europa League is a joke

If it’s not the Champions League, when it comes to cup competitions it would seem that most teams don’t want to know.

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Can Shelvey replace Gerrard? (Video)

Steven Gerrrard isn’t going to be around forever.  Despite still being an incredible player, at 32 years of age, the Liverpool skipper is well past his prime.  And, with the Reds having needed him to pull them out of the mud so many times over the years, who is going to be there to save them when he’s gone?

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What Is Wrong With The Europa League?

Just as every amateur dramatist dreams of playing Romeo or Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, every top flight football team dreams of playing in the Champions League. Nobody wants to portray Mercutio and Tybalt or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, just as no club would appear to want to play in the Europa League. Like the above-mentioned characters, the competition is viewed as something for those not good enough to play the leading lights.

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Unbelievable Tekkers! (Video)

If you want to see a fantastically finished goal courtesy of Romania then step this way…

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Thursday night, Channel Five: a case for the Europa League

As I watched a very entertaining game between Liverpool and Udinese in the Europa League last week, I realised it was fourth game of the competition I was watching already this season. For all the jesting that the competition is a 'poor man's Champions League' it throws up some brilliant fixtures and gives us a chance to watch teams and players we wouldn't normally get to see if you're not an avid follower of the other European leagues.

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How do you solve a problem like the Europa League?

Pity the poor Europa League- at one point in history, a genuinely interesting competition full of teams that want to win the competition, now reduced to patronising platitudes.

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Athletic believe in the ‘Basque-only’ policy

Athletic are a relatively successful La Liga club. They consistently qualify for the Europa League each year, obviously they aren’t in the class of Barcelona and Real Madrid, but they are still a very good team. After all they showed Man United how to play football in last season’s Europa League.

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