Welcome one and all. The first post in the Scottish Football Blog's 24 hour blogathon. Enjoy.
A perfect starting point, then, suggested by the Twitter fixture that is @steakheed
This might seem like a bit of a cheat. People who read this blog will know I don't shy from a spot of Hibernian navel gazing.

Whenever somebody utters the name of Liverpool Football Club, it's synonymous with great managers and great players. Over the years Bill Shankly has become an icon but many people forget the achievements of his successor, Shankly began the dream, but it was none other than Bob Paisley who ensured it continued.

There was something oddly consuming about the dullness of today's France-Romania European Qualifying match. It was played in Bucharest, in front of a packed and energized crowd of Romanian fans, who understood that this was probably the pivotal moment in the country's attempt to get to the European Cup next year.

FC BARCELONA takes SPANISH FOOTBALL to the top position of European & World Football after winning with a 3 - 1 result English Club MANCHESTER UNITED in the 2011 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Final played tonight at the "Wembley Stadium" (London). image is courtesy of "Sport" It is FC Barcelona fourth Champions League Title & they repite the first that the Club won back in 1992 in the same stadium.

Roped once more into acting as question setter as a local hostelry puts on a themed quiz.
Tonight's theme is Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
No, I jest.
It's the Champions League as Barcelona and Manchester United go head to head in the final.

The Champions League.
The tournament that best sums up all that is wrong about European club football. A grotesquely bloated monument to football's greed, its fiscal deities.
Yet still oddly compelling.
And tonight it reaches its climax. Wembley plays hosts to an unfettered orgy celebrating UEFA's money making fetish.

Leinster claimed their second Heineken Cup when beating Northampton 33-22 having been 22-6 down at half-time. Fly-half Johnny Sexton claimed the Man of the Match with two tries and a point haul of 28.

Seventeen league titles, five European Cups, seven League Cups and fifteen Manager of the Year awards. Both adored by their fans, admired by their peers; and despised either end of the M62.

Sir Alex Ferguson and Bob Paisley OBE are undeniably the masters of their trade. Title after title has been mixed with majestic football and an unerring enjoyment of standing on the sidelines shouting at some of the worlds' most famous sportsmen.

Jump in the car at Celtic Park and arrive two weeks later at Wembley. Along the way visit 20 cities and 21 football clubs in 10 different countries.
And, inspired by a seven year old boy, try and raise £100,000 for charity.
21 football clubs? The 21 winners of the European Cup.

All white on the night! Wolverhampton Well the neutrals are having a field day again: goalmouth action; inept defending; three classic strikes; penalties; disallowed goals; red card escapes; late equalisers; controversy, and amongst that lot somewhere some almost decent football and both teams lucky to get a point and unlucky not to win.

Some readers of EPL Talk are new or semi new to football, based outside of the continent of Europe yet possess an affection for the UEFA Champions League unmatched to that of even the Premier League. The current format of Europe's premier club competition allows the majority of the top footballing talent in the world to compete against each other across the width and breadth of the continent in front of millions of watchful eyes across a myriad of countries.