It's official - The English Premier League (EPL) is now the strongest competition in world football.
That is the only conclusion that can be drawn following a stunning night of UEFA Champions' League action in Europe which has seen Manchester United and Chelsea progress to this year's semi-finals.
And with Liverpool almost certain to join them tomorrow - the Reds hold a 3-0 lead already over Dutch team PSV Eindhoven and play the second leg at home - it will mean three English clubs will have made it to the last four of football's most prestigious club competition for the first time.
That not only sets up the prospect of a second Liverpool-Chelsea semi-final in just three years but also the possibility of the winner taking on Manchester United - provided it gets over either Italy's AC Milan or Germany's Bayern Munich in the other semi-final - in the first ever all-English Champions' League final.
For years the EPL has been regarded as the world's most exciting domestic football league and is certainly the most popular - given the almost fanatical interest in the competition in places such as Asia.
But until now it has never really deserved the more important tag of the world's strongest or best quality league, which has usually been the domain of Italy's Serie A or Spain's Primera Liga.
It was only four years ago that Italy provided three of the four Champions' League semi-finalists in Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan - which resulted in AC Milan beating Juventus in the first all-Italian final.
But the match fixing scandal which has since rocked Italian football - resulting in the weakening of all the top Italian clubs and the expulsion of Juventus from Serie A - has opened the door for English clubs to take over as the kings of Europe.
The huge investments in England's top clubs have also helped with Chelsea now owned by Russia's wealthiest man in Roman Abramovich while United and Liverpool now have American owners with deep pockets - enabling the clubs to financially match any of the strongest teams from Italy, Spain, Germany and France in pursuit of the world's best players.
The reputation of English football in Europe suffered enormously following the ban of all English clubs from European competitions for five years in the second half of the 1980s, following the deaths of 39 Juventus fans at Heysel in the 1985 European Cup final against Liverpool.
And once English clubs were allowed back in the competition in the early 1990s - they struggled and since then only Manchester United in 1999 and Liverpool in 2005 have lifted Europe's biggest trophy.
In the same period since that infamous 1985 final, Spanish and Italian clubs have lifted the trophy on five occasions but given the shift in the balance of power now it might be a while before the rest of Europe prises the Champions' League out of English hands.