Walk through Eindhoven, with its nondescript office blocks, and you will be done in half an hour. This is a medium-sized Dutch company town whose company, Philips, has fled: its headquarters are now in Amsterdam. But Philips has bequeathed Eindhoven the best little football club in Europe.

On Tuesday PSV host Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Fresh from eliminating Arsenal, their record in recent Champions Leagues outdoes Manchester United's and Real Madrid's. Something special is going on here.