After a truly dreadful season in European competition last year, the Premier League had already dropped behind the German Bundesliga as Uefa’s third ranked domestic competition but they will also be passed by Serie A if they are again decisively out-performed by the Italian clubs. Should that happen, there will be only three English teams in the 2017-18 Champions League. The rankings are calculated over a five year period and, however you look at it, the decline of the once dominant Premier League clubs is stark.