The Daily Hilario: Happy elimination day, everybody!

EUROPA BECKONS:

Liverpool fight for their Champions League lives today against that meddling FC Basel who seem to always do well against English opposition.  Should be entertaining one way or another.

IN OTHER NEWS:

Man City open £200m football academy | Guardian
Welcome to the club, Man City.  Let's ruin football together.

Serial: The Syed family on their pain and the ‘five million detectives trying to work out if Adnan is a psychopath' | Guardian
If you listen to Serial, this is a must read.  If you aren't listening to Serial, what are you waiting for?

Doug DeMuro owned a Ferrari for a year; it was a disappointment | Jalopnik
Always enjoyable.

College Football bowl/playoff schedule | SB Nation
Useful.  Pretty.  Designed by Graham.

FOOTBALL (all times GMT):
19.45:  Champions League:  Olympiakos Piraeus vs. Malmö FF
19.45:  Champions League:  Juventus vs. Atlético Madrid
19.45:  Champions League:  Liverpool vs. FC Basel
19.45:  Champions League:  Real Madrid vs. Ludogorets
19.45:  Champions League:  AS Monaco vs. Zenit St. Petersburg
19.45:  Champions League:  Benfica vs. Bayer Leverkusen
19.45:  Champions League:  Galatasaray vs. Arsenal
19.45:  Champions League:  Borussia Dortmund vs. Anderlecht