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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ceq0z4pnp1yo Gary Rose BBC Sport journalist English clubs appear to be bossing things in Europe as, for the second time in this season's Champions League, five sides from the Premier League won in a single round of fixtures. Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Newcastle and Tottenham all won their games this week, with the first four of those sides now sitting inside the top eight - the positions they need to be in to qualify automatically for the knockouts. Only Chelsea failed to take all three points as they were held to a surprising 2-2 draw by Qarabag on Wednesday, but they are still handily placed at the halfway stage of the group stage as they sit 12th. Before this season the Champions League had never seen five teams from one country all win in a single round of matches. Now teams from England have managed it twice. "In five years' time we will look at this period of the next five years as the domination of England, I don't see it any other way," Spanish football journalist Guillem Balague told BBC Sport. "Bayern are doing really, really well and they can disrupt that. PSG will have their moments, I think Barcelona and Real Madrid are lagging behind, but there is nobody else." So following this dominant start, are English teams favourite to win the Champions League? And how likely is a fourth all-English final?

Made In Leicester Gareth Jones Recruiting office in the town hall 1915. By the end of the war 9,300 men of Leicester had given their lives.

This is why they need to reduce the area of the pitch where you can be offside with out adding extra lines. It's daft that 50% of the pitch is out of bounds with teams pushing high up the pitch. Let's not forget why it was introduced, to stop goal hanging. You're hardly goal hanging that far up the pitch.

I remember that as well, they keep changing the laws to clarify and often it makes them more subjecting, harder to determine and negatively affects the game.

Leicester Memories Jayne Wills

When I was in the CofE children's home we used to go to Great Yarmouth every year. One year, I must have been about 14 we had a Polish lad about 17 join us for a couple of weeks and my brother and I were asked to keep an eye on him and show him around. We were walking down this street, towards the harbour with houses on both sides when we came across one of those milk floats. Out of the blue he ran up to it and grab this large bag of cakes and started shoving them in my coat before I could stop him the milkman came out of one of the houses, saw us and shouted running towards: not knowing what to do and frightened we all ran off down the road with him chasing us all I could think of was to get rid of the cakes stuffed in my coat so I threw them over the garden walls of the houses shouting for him to do the same.. Fortunately we managed to outrun him. My brother who's a year older than me and much mature gave him a right bollocking.

Admiral Ben Nelson with win the Battle of Filbert Way

Most of the players mentally went home a couple of years ago

Skipp-a-Dee-Doo-Dah more fitting.

3-5-2 with ball 5-3-2 without ball Either way

Not really enjoyed this game, too much gamesmanship and a weak ref some of the reviews were weird for both teams.

Time wasting starts at an early age then.

It's amazing more people weren't electrocuted. I've seen some terrible ones when I've taken over a house. I bought house that had an electric fire fixed to the wall above the bath and wired into the lighting. One gentle pull on it and it came off the wall in my hand, was screw straight into the plaster board with no wall plugs.

Snake belt, had one of these to hold up my 'short' school trousers when I was 11 and was the only pupil in the class wearing them.

I truthfully would prefer Skipp to Soumare.

I'm sure you're jesting re Bruno Heskey but..... Bruno Berner Bruno N'Gotty

Good or bad - depends on where you live. Alberto Costa · CITY LANDGRAB UPDATE Leicester City Council has now published its plans for the reorganisation of local government across Leicester and Leicestershire. As expected, the City Mayor’s preferred option is to expand the city boundary, taking in Oadby, Wigston, and parts of Blaby and Harborough districts. The City’s “base proposal”, required to comply with government guidance that new unitary authorities must initially be based on whole existing district boundaries, goes even further, expanding the city to include ALL OF Blaby, Harborough and Oadby & Wigston. Both options would be awful for our communities. Our villages and market towns risk being swallowed up into the city, losing their voice, their identity, and their ability to make decisions close to home. I believe our current two-tier system works well. It keeps decision-making local and reflects the character of our distinct communities. If Labour insists on pushing ahead with reorganisation, I am backing the three-unitary model: North Leicestershire & Rutland, South Leicestershire, and Leicester City. Fair, balanced and locally accountable. Like so many of you, I am wholly opposed to any attempt to expand the city boundary. This is nothing more than an opportunistic power and tax grab, and I will continue to fight it every step of the way.

As we prepare for Tuesday's Remembrance Fixture against Middlesbrough, we turn the clock back to 2003, when Leicester City began a beloved national tradition. For that match, against Blackburn Rovers on 2 November, 2003, in the Premier League, we wore embroidered poppies on our shirts to mark Remembrance. Rovers agreed to do the same. At that time, no club had done this, it wasn’t a norm. It wasn’t even a recognised gesture in English football. But what Leicester did that day was noticed. The Premier League were so impressed they formally contacted every club to share the initiative, while Buckingham Palace was also informed of the Club’s activity. A week later, Manchester City followed suit in their own Remembrance fixture, coincidentally against the Foxes, and from that point the gesture spread across the Premier League and then the EFL. Today, it is universal, we see it every season. It is embedded in the sport’s calendar. But it started here in Leicester, 22 years ago this week. The exact shirt which Les Ferdinand wore in November 2003. The shirt featured here was worn that afternoon by Foxes striker Les Ferdinand – an iconic name in Premier League history – and is now preserved in the Club’s historic collections. The game was broadcast live to troops around the world with almost 31,000 supporters inside Filbert Way. Leicester won 2-0, with goals from Marcus Bent and Steve Howey, while afterwards the shirts were held back and raffled to raise money for the Royal British Legion – another element that also remains a nationwide practice today. It is rare that one football shirt genuinely starts a movement. A simple embroidered poppy stitched onto royal blue became the start of a national tradition, now part of footballing culture every November across the country. A shirt that began here, at Leicester City, and a shirt that helped shape the game’s annual act of Remembrance ever since.