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 than any other team, Luis Enrique’s side seem capable of making any side look like “farmers”.’
I love it when the English media are so selective when it comes to flagging up what has happened in the past, which clubs they choose to give credit to and which they don’t…
Ahead of this Liverpool match against PSG I have seen that theme continue.
Yes, if only there was an English club that didn’t get outclassed and hammered by PSG…
2025/26 PSG Champions League results against English clubs:
Chelsea 2 PSG 8 (on aggregate)
PSG 1 Newcastle 1
PSG 5 Tottenham 3
2024/25 PSG Champions League results against English clubs:
Arsenal 1 PSG 3 (on aggregate)
Aston Villa 4 PSG 5 (on aggregate)
Liverpool 1 PSG 1 (on aggregate, PSG win 4-1 on penalties)
PSG 4 Man City 2
Arsenal 2 PSG 0
2023/24 PSG Champions League results against English clubs:
PSG 1 Newcastle 1
Newcastle 4 PSG 1
It is so impressive how BBC Sport and so many others, can report on PSG and their dominance over Premier League clubs AND yet studiously refuse to even mention Eddie Howe and Newcastle United.
It is amusing and frustrating in equal measures, that those in the media ‘forget’ the fact that only in January this year, Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United were the better team against PSG in Paris and could and should have won, very unlucky only to draw, when they were easily the better team in the second half and failed to take their chances.
Arsenal got a 2-0 home victory over PSG in the Swiss League stage last season but then in the semi-finals were outclassed and beaten home and away by PSG.
All of the other Premier League clubs outclassed and beaten as well.
Then you have Newcastle United, who have never lost to PSG, NUFC hammering them 4-1 at home in 2023, then cheated out of a win in Paris in late 2023 by an appalling set of match officials and a very late penalty that should never have been given. Before most recently facing another lot of appalling match officials who gave PSG a penalty that they should have never got, as well as a host of other decisions gifted to the home side, yet NUFC got a draw in Paris in January 2026 and should have won.