It has been such an unusual Premier League season, even Crystal Palace seem to be aiming for European football, writes Daniel Storey.

Average Arsenal have little left to play for this season after they limped out of the Europa League in a dramatic injury time defeat.

Mourinho starts as he means to go on at Tottenham...

Gerry Cox No, argues Gerry Cox

Think about the greatest atmospheres and greatest occasions you have ever seen or experienced at Anfield since the day Bill Shankly walked into the famous old ground 60 years ago and vowed to turn it into a bastion of invincibility.

Liverpool's remarkable comeback victory will rank as the greatest night in living memory for many supporters of the Anfield side, but where will it rank in the history of this illustrious football club?

It may not have been quite as dramatic or memorable as that Steven Gerrard goal almost 14 years ago to the day but, as Mohamed Salah clinched Liverpool’s place in the Champions League knockout stages, this important victory certainly carried echoes of that famous night.

Jose Mourinho has dismissed speculation about his future at Manchester United by restating his belief that he is “one of the greatest managers in the world”.

Leigh Griffiths scored his 100th goal for Celtic as they beat Suduva 3-0 in the play-off second leg to book their place in the group stage of the Europa League.

Maybe Keane’s time at both Ipswich and Sunderland hasn’t been so much tainted as forgotten, writes Kieran Shannon.

Paris St Germain pair Neymar and Edison Cavani put their differences aside to inspire an emphatic 3-0 win over Bayern Munich in Champions League Group B.

MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK: Daniel Storey looks at what this weekend’s Premier League action thought us.

Hull have confirmed the appointment of Marco Silva as the club’s new head coach.

An international footballer, who was kidnapped in Mexico, has been rescued, according to authorities in the country.

Claudio Ranieri and his Leicester players should cherish the moment of lifting the Premier League trophy. Because the histories of other modest clubs that surpassed themselves suggest that the fortunes of the odds-beating Foxes could plunge sharply from here.

Liverpool pulled off an incredible fightback on another breathless European night at Anfield to reach the last-four of the Europa League.

Aston Villa 0 Arsenal 2: Arsene Wenger has hailed a “great week”, after Olivier Giroud scored again and Arsenal followed up Champions League qualification with a climb to the top of the Barclays Premier League by comfortably beating rock-bottom Aston Villa.

Arsenal must win their two remaining group games to stand any chance of progressing.

Swansea City 0 Arsenal 3<br>Joel Campbell was on the verge of leaving Arsenal in the summer after four, frustrating years at the Emirates. A switch to Besiktas had been planned and the 23-year-old Costa Rican international was poised to re-launch his career in Turkey.

What marks Pep Guardiola out as a manager is his different – almost unique – way of looking at football, and that was never clearer than in his press conference ahead of Bayern Munich’s trip to the Emirates, when he claimed Arsenal “have the advantage”.

It’s already been a frustrating season that has seen so many problematic staples of recent Arsenal campaigns - questions over transfers, an injury crisis in a key position, defeat to Chelsea - but yesterday offered something new from a very frustrated Arsene Wenger.

European champions Barcelona saw their perfect start to the season ended after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Roma at the Stadio Olimpico in Wednesday’s Champions League Group E opener.

Arsenal 2 Stoke 0: Arsene Wenger has a selection problem going into a vital run of early season games. Some might argue the problem is of his own making, but he has to chose between strikers Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud at a time when both need a run of games to increase their goalscoring confidence.

Southampton insist Manchester United target Sadio Mane is not for sale.

Football sometimes seems like politics in disguise but in Greece, the opposite is also true, writes David Shonfield.

There’s a way to write about this rationally and without sentiment.

If it can ever be possible to feel something approaching pity for a mega-rich Premier League footballer who has won the Champions League, captained his country and been justly feted as one of the best players of his generation, then look no further than Steven Gerrard.

History, the one thing that seemed to be on Liverpool’s side even in the worst of times, seems finally to have deserted Anfield.

The Champions League group stage was due a knife-edge finale and it has duly arrived. Just four group winners have been decided and only one runner-up.

While the last 10 years haven’t exactly been a cake walk for Liverpool fans, the club is at a particular low ebb at the moment.

Juventus ended their away day blues to reignite their chances of progressing from Group A of the Champions League with a 2-0 win over Malmo.

Tonight is when the Champions League starts to get serious.

The crisis in Italian football is a bit like climate change.

Police in Greece say they have foiled a bomb attack by a far-left militant group planned for the weekend.

Italy 0 Costa Rica 1

Italy 0 Costa Rica 1

Cesc Fabregas has confirmed he did not join Arsenal from Barcelona because Arsene Wenger had no place for him.

Hollywood, Oscar-weekend, March. Alex Ferguson has shown up at one of the many showbiz parties and is giving punters the patter. The message

USA:

There is a reason flares are banned from all football grounds and this is why.

Action from the 1st leg of the UEFA Champions League Quarter Final ties on TV3 at 7.30pm tonight.

Going into a game against their high-flying neighbours, it was hardly wise of David Moyes to starting batting around stats, particularly ones as weak as those which, he claimed, showed his team had matched Liverpool in the possession and passing stakes last Sunday week.

It is remarkable how, unlike pretty much any other multi-million-euro industry, so many long-term football plans can come down to the luck of a single 90 minutes.

Eleven times Olympiakos and their fans have journeyed from Athens to England since 1965 and 11 times they have lost.