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London - Despite their new $7.8 billion television rights deal, the blanket failure of Premier League clubs in the Champions League has left England looking like Europe's poor relation.
After Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal fell, Manchester City's elimination by Barcelona on Wednesday left England with no quarter-final representatives in Europe's elite club competition for the second time in three years.
For a country that supplied three of the four semi-finalists in 2007, 2008 and 2009 -- and eight of the 16 finalists between 2005 and 2012 -- it appears to represent a startling fall from grace.
