Surely this will be the year we witness the first all-English final in football's greatest club competition - the European Champions League.
For the second season running the English Premier League has supplied three of the four semi-finalists with Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool all reaching the last four for the second successive year.
Last year the three English giants were foiled by Italy's AC Milan but this year the only opposition left standing in the way of a total English domination of the competition is struggling Spanish giant Barcelona.
The Catalan club may have some of the best individual players on the planet in their line-up but unfortunately their two best in Argentine wonderkid Lionel Messi and Brazilian star Ronaldinho are not even on the pitch at the moment.
And Thierry Henry, the former champion Arsenal striker, is another of Barcelona's stars who appears past his best.
In fact it's debatable whether Barcelona would have even made it through to the last four had it not been paired with overachieving German outfit Schalke in the quarter-finals, where it won both legs 1-0 to reach the semi-finals.
Indeed, had Barcelona been paired with the only English club to bow out in the quarter-finals, Arsenal, which was desperately unlucky to go down to an inspired Liverpool at Anfield, then there could have been an incredible all-English semi-final line-up.
Now Barcelona, which sits third in the Spanish La Liga some seven points adrift of a Real Madrid side that made little impression in this year's Champions League, faces the giant task of taking on EPL leaders Manchester United in a two-legged semi-final later this month.
The other semi-final is between old foes Liverpool and Chelsea - the third time in the past four years the two EPL clubs have met in the last four of Europe's biggest club competition.
That sums up the growing dominance of the cashed-up giants of the EPL in the Champions League with Chelsea now having reached the last four in four of the past five years.
And Liverpool, which has five wins in the competition, only exceeded by Real Madrid (nine) and AC Milan (seven), is aiming for a third berth in the final in four years having lost to Milan in last year's final as well as beating the Italian outfit in a memorable 2005 final in Turkey when it came from 3-0 down to win on penalties after tying the game at 3-3.
Manchester United, winners in 1999, has underachieved in Europe in recent years but with the man now being regarded as the world's best player in Portuguese star Ronaldo at its disposal, Sir Alex Ferguson's side will never get a better chance to reach its first final in nearly a decade against a Barcelona side which looks a pale imitation of the one that won this competition in 2006.
A United win over Barcelona would ensure a first all-English final and confirm a return to the glory days when English clubs dominated the competition in the late 1970's and early 1980's at a time when Liverpool (four), Nottingham Forest (twice) and Aston Villa (once) lifted the trophy on seven occasions between them in the space of eight seasons between 1977 and 1984.
But after the five-year ban on English clubs in Europe, following the rioting by Liverpool fans in the 1985 final against Juventus at Heysel, English clubs struggled upon their return to Europe as Italian and Spanish teams took over.
However, come May 21st in Moscow this year when the 2008 European Champions League Final is staged, England's return as the superpower of club football in Europe is likely to be complete.