With Liverpool set to play PSG on Wednesday night, we are hearing the usual stuff.

The scousers playing in Paris in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.

PSG of course the reigning champions in the competition.

In the last 16, the French side played Chelsea.

PSG dominated and hammered Liam Rosenior’s team in both legs.

After the second leg at Stamford Bridge, the usual nonsense from the media.

BBC Sport amongst the worst offenders…‘It perhaps stands to reason that this is too much too soon for the youngest starting XI to play a Champions League knockout game for Chelsea, regardless of the expectation of the shirt they wear.’

The subservient BBC Sport, so slavish to the ‘elite’ Premier League clubs, then going on to say…

‘PSG have been sweeping aside English teams with ease over the past two seasons…PSG beat Arsenal in last season’s semi-final, having already defeated Aston Villa and Liverpool on their way to a 5-0 final win over Inter Milan…PSG over two legs in the Champions League, asserting their dominance over Chelsea and, perhaps, over English – and even European – football more broadly. Now top scorers in the tournament, with more different scorers...