Screw the pretenders lets talk about the contenders!!

Some tasty fucking matches are in store for the next round of the champions league, with Chelsea drawing Valencia, Bayern Munich drawing AC Milan, Roma meeting Manchester United, and Liverpool running into Arsenal's conquerors PSV. The draw was missing some so called "big clubs" as they were knocked the fuck out by better teams filling me with schadenfreude... Anyways, at the beginning of the tourney I predicted that an English club would win the champions league, I recall Garvin's theory that this competition is cyclical, and that at times teams from one country would win the majority of times in a decade. In the 90's it was clearly Italian teams, and Spanish teams had a short stint with Madrid winning three titles in the space of 5 years and Valencia coming close in between. It's now time for the English clubs as Liverpool won it 2 years ago, Arsenal came agonizingly close to winning it last year and now three strong English teams are in the quarter- finals and the draw seems kind to them. On paper all three should advance, but as you all know in football anything could happen...just look Barca won their second European Cup/Champions league trophy since they were founded...amazing