‘Are we the farmers now?’ Champions League results have English clubs feeling blue

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Chelsea and Manchester City were found out in this year’s Champions League (Picture: Getty) If there’s one thing English football has always proven, it’s that money doesn’t buy happiness. Chelsea have been in a dip recently and had to face last year’s winners PSG.

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It’s easy to complicate things but you’ll have heard all the excuses by now: English teams play too many games, the Premier League is too competitive, the style of play in England isn’t suited to European football anymore. To channel this writer’s inner Roy Keane, at the end of the day the teams that finished first and second in last year’s Premier League are through after beating a team from Turkiye and a struggling German side, while those that finished third, fourth, fifth and 17th are not after facing teams that are just better, both on paper and on the pitch.