Is it good to go back over old ground? In the case of Jose Mourinho returning to Chelsea, I'm not so sure.

Of course, the club's best period under Roman Abramovich was when Mourinho was there. From that perspective, Mourinho's appointment makes sense.

When you are Chelsea and you possess their wealth, you pick from the top shelf. Most managers will be available to them.

There was a minor fall-out between owner and manager, but you can't deny Mourinho's performance as the club's coach.

It is popular with the fans, and I think it is an easy call to go back to that. But you ask whether or not it

Arsene Wenger, Rafa Benitez and Andre Villas-Boas take centre stage on the Premier League's final day, but Alan Pardew and Newcastle may be the wild card to who finishes where

The final day of the Premier League season is upon us, and with champions crowned, three teams already condemned to relegation and much buzz around the end of the Sir Alex Ferguson era, the biggest fate to be decided is that of Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham in their fight for two Champions League places.

It’s Spurs who are currently on the outside looking in, and with three points and a goal difference of 16 separating them in fifth and the new Europa League winners in third, the core question becomes: Can Tottenham get a better result than local rivals Arsenal  and seal a spot in the top

Before you look at what went wrong for Manchester City in the FA Cup final you first must give credit to Wigan.

You can't take anything away from them; they got off to a good start and played exceptionally well throughout. They were clearly up for the occasion and ready for battle and actually dominated the game – it was very impressive from them.

That contrasts sharply to City though and the occasion just showed up one of the big failings of Roberto Mancini as a manager since he arrived at Manchester City.

He just does not seem to be able to get the best out of the squad at his disposable.

David Moyes and Sir Alex Ferguson shake hands (PA Sport)

I’m not surprised about the appointment of David Moyes from Everton to Manchester United, nor are any of you.

There are plenty of people who are not confident this is a good move, but I am not one of them. Moyes is a very good manager, but of course it is always going to be a massive gamble trying to replace a boss who has been at a club for over 26 years.

Ferguson’s DNA will remain all over the club, from top to bottom, long after he has retired and Moyes will have to try and ease into that and leave his own mark on United.

It’s important to remember how big an input Sir Alex has had in

Rafael Benitez has been in a difficult situation from day one at Chelsea but if you look at the job he has done as a whole I think you have to say that it has been impressive.

People will point to the fact that he lost the World Club Cup final and what looked to be on paper a relatively comfortable League Cup semi-final against Swansea. There was also the FA Cup exit, but I think he is a manager who needs time to stamp his style on things –not loads of time, but three or four months to implement his ideas. We are beginning to see his influence come through now.

One of his key strengths is his

Borussia Dortmund and particularly Bayern Munich are the talk of Europe after the way they knocked Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona out of the Champions League.

Obviously there is a big thing being made about the emerging German dominance in the game but we shouldn't forget that Bayern have been in two of the last three finals so this is not something that has come completely out of the blue.

I'm not about to suggest that football has completely changed but there is a different emphasis on the type of players that these German sides are using so effectively.

The key to success now

Gareth Bale has been named PFA Player of the Year and to me it was a difficult decision because there were three clearly outstanding candidates – Bale, Robin van Persie and Luis Suarez – and you could have made a case for any of them to win.

When it comes down to such fine margins the key factor seems to be when the voting takes place and Bale was in sparkling form this year just when the ballots were being cast.

People say that footballers don't take the PFA award seriously but that is not the case. It is something you actually get excited about as a player.

You get the voting forms in and

People have been comparing Luis Suarez’s 10-match ban for biting to Jermain Defoe, who bit Javier Mascherano back in 2006 and escaped with just a yellow card. To me that isn’t a good comparison, as deciding not to ban Defoe at all was completely the wrong decision. He should have been sent off seven years ago and you cannot really use that as a straight-up comparison.

There is, however, an issue with how the FA decide on the length of suspensions.

Suarez getting 10 games, for me, is too much. I definitely feel they were punishing the man and not the isolated incident. Personally, I would have