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MARTIN SAMUEL: It was a strange, sleepwalking exit from the Champions League for Manchester City. Much like the strange, sleepwalking conclusion to the season.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Nobody is expecting a second title challenge. The 5,000-1 price offered at the start of this season would be almost as valid for the next campaign, and for the same reasons.
MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Behind Claudio Ranieri's geniality and generosity is a man who is absolutely sure of his methodology. He has turned Leicester into champions.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Be aware that this is no standard match report. No end-of-season wrap-up, no routine summary of facts. This records an event you will want to tell your grandchildren about.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: At least the locals acknowledged the real heroes of the night. ‘Leicester,’ they chanted. ‘There’s only one Ranieri.’
MARTIN SAMUEL: Two Germans sat in the main stand at the Estadio Vicente Calderon. This wouldn’t have happened in England. There would have been anger and outrage.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT OLD TRAFFORD: At the end, a genuinely spine-tingling moment. Old Trafford stood to applaud the players they believe will be this season’s champions.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT EL MADRIGAL: Liverpool are two matches away from a prize no-one could have imagined was possible in Klopp’s first season. In the fateful moment it shifted further away.
MARTIN SAMUEL: I was talking to a former Premier League manager who said good players get lost at Chelsea. This wasn’t what made me write Monday’s column, mind you, which has started this DEBATE.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE VICENTE CALDERON: Saul Niguez scored arguably the goal of the tournament and, as a result, Pep Guardiola has 90 minutes to avoid being a nearly man.
MARTIN SAMUEL: No wonder the FA are relaxed about Roy Hodgson's potential successor. By the time the new technical department has finished with its England DNA project, what will be left for him to do?
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE ETIHAD STADIUM: No Cristiano Ronaldo, no Karim Benzema, but no end to the stalemate for Manchester City. This was like a chess match. A largely unremarkable one.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Leicester will win the league if they beat Manchester United on Sunday. That is it, the bottom line. Craig Dawson’s 73rd minute header stunned White Hart Lane into silence.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Jose Mourinho having been sacked the previous December, this is one budding Chelsea starlet whose absence cannot be artfully blamed on the former manager.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE KING POWER STADIUM: A helicopter was waiting to take Leicester’s players down to the PFA dinner on Sunday night. They are flying, this team, and in more ways than one.
Brutality aside, there are serious question about the way MMA is organised and regulated. I wrote about it in Monday's column following the death of Joao Carvalho and it sparked a lively DEBATE.
MARTIN SAMUEL Is there any weekend in the sporting calendar when Network Rail services can get fans home from the match? One would think 5pm was the middle of the night, considering the chaos that follows a late-afternoon kick-off.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Before Marcus Rashford, there was Adnan Januzaj. He was a teenager when he played his first game for Manchester United. He got among the goals early in his career, too.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Mike Ashley has quite a long list of the mistakes he knows he has made at Newcastle. He can add another. Waiting two months too long to engage the services of Rafael Benitez.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE BRITANNIA STADIUM: Dele Alli drew Shay Given, and scored in the manner of Lionel Messi. He celebrated with a somersault in front of a delirious away end.
MARTIN SAMUEL: For those who like their entertainment raw, the footage of Joao Carvalho being beaten to death, in public and quite legally, by Charlie Ward is still available online.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE KING POWER STADIUM: It was a sending off. And it was a penalty, the first one at least. But it was also a desperately maverick performance from Moss, the referee.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT ANFIELD: Spirit. Passion. Will. Longing. Sometimes raw emotion is enough. Quality. Very over-rated these days. They did it. They really did it.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT UPTON PARK: Marcus Rashford scored the goal, Manchester United delivered the performance. It was a fitting send-off for the last FA Cup tie to be played at Upton Park.
THE DEBATE: Clubs that get into trouble are those that think the numbers hold all the answers. This week is all about what happens when the numbers stop adding up.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE ETIHAD STADIUM: Manchester City are through to the Champions League semi-finals for the first time after Kevin de Bruyne's winner finished off Paris Saint Germain.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Manchester United didn’t play all that badly against Tottenham on Sunday. They just didn’t play like Manchester United. Louis van Gaal always bristles at that suggestion.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Players who arrived on the promise of a lucrative move to a Champions League club are now wedded to a relegation battle, and plainly have no appetite for it.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT WHITE HART LANE : Tottenham have kept up the pressure on Premier League title rivals Leicester after securing a stunning 3-0 win over Manchester United at White Hart Lane.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT WESTFALENSTADION: Liverpool remain a work in progress, and frequently looked it, but this was a very creditable result in Germany.
MARTIN SAMUEL - THE DEBATE: It has always been argued that women earn less from sport because they do not generate the same money. Here are women who do: what are we waiting for?
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE PARC DES PRINCES: He could defend a bit, Laurent Blanc. No wonder what went on in Paris Wednesday night left him looking rather pained.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Chelsea cannot offer Champions League football, but they can demonstrate a degree of stability. It is the same at Manchester City. And then there is Manchester United...
MARTIN SAMUEL: Nobody could accuse Sir Alex Ferguson of undermining his successors at Old Trafford. He goes to the games, sits in the stand, and keeps his thoughts to himself.
MARTIN SAMUEL: For the last decade, factoring in sponsorship and commercial contracts as well as prize money, Sharapova has out-earned Williams every year. So pay in sport is unfair.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Wes Morgan's thumping header late in the first-half saw off Southampton and sent Leicester City seven points clear at the top of the Barclays Premier League.
THE DEBATE: What always surprises me when Rooney is the subject , is the sheer vitriol that rains down, the number of people who refuse to accept that he has ever been a player.
MARTIN SAMUEL: It will have come as a great surprise to Gary Neville to be sacked by Valencia. Sadly, it won’t have come as a great surprise to anybody else.
MARTIN SAMUEL: There is a young man in a coma, and a sport praying he gets away with it. Yet the inquest over who is responsible has no purpose. Boxing is responsible, not any referee or trainer. Boxing is to blame.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT WEMBLEY: A team being as strong as its weakest link, the optimism around England’s young team, may need to be tempered with some pessimism about the defence.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Football folk in Spain clearly have long memories. How could BATE Borisov cause such anguish on one night in the Bernabeu more than seven years ago?
MARTIN SAMUEL: It is Wayne Rooney who will test the actuality of the freewheelin’ Roy Hodgson, as England prepare for the Euros. Rooney, Gary Cahill, the collective old guard.
Eddie Jones appreciates that Grand Slam-winning teams are rare enough and that the 2016 triumph was a significant achievement but is already plotting the plan to bring down Australia.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Gatekeepers, humble foot soldiers are what Roy Hodgson needs right now. Shooting stars, he has in abundance. What Hodgson needs is someone to keep the door shut. That is where Drinkwater comes in.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE ETIHAD STADIUM: What a remarkable debut season this has been for Marcus Rashford. A battlefield promotion for a Europa League tie in Denmark, a matchwinner against Arsenal and now this.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Victoria Pendleton proved those that said she was wrong to get on the horse and ride that it was completely the right decision and her fifth place finish at Cheltenham was something to behold.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT OLD TRAFFORD: Liverpool, and Jurgen Klopp, are now five decent games away from next season Champions League after getting the better of Manchester United.
THE DEBATE: Roman Abramovich demands good football yet employs pragmatists and wishes for a coherent philosophy while on the brink of appointing a third manager in six months.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Sir Alex Ferguson had a special look of contempt for those who built elaborate theories around Cristiano Ronaldo's free-kick technique.
MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE ETIHAD: Any executive who continues to advocate closed-shop European football - minus rigorous qualification - should be tied to a chair and made to watch this game.