As a big football fan, I tuned in to watch Saturday night's Champions League final with interest. I absolutely loved what I saw from Paris Saint-Germain. 

Guided by their brilliant coach Luis Enrique, PSG went out on the biggest stage and under the utmost pressure and delivered a thrilling, attacking display. 

Huge credit to Enrique for that. It takes a lot to go for broke when it matters most, but that's exactly what PSG did. And they reaped the rewards with a famous 5-0 win over Inter Milan.

The four teams competing in the Gallagher Premiership play-offs this week can, I think, take a lot from Enrique and PSG. In Johann van Graan, Michael Cheika, Alex Sanderson and Pat Lam, Bath, Leicester, Sale and Bristol have four brilliant coaches. 

I think they've all been exceptional for English rugby because of the way they've got their teams playing. The Premiership has been superb to watch this season. There have been tries galore. 

As national head coach, Steve Borthwick has a great deal of debt to pay to the Premiership for the quality of coaching at that level. It was the same for me when I was England coach. 

I owed a lot to the clubs, especially Leicester and Wasps, for producing such high-quality players that enabled England to have success at international level.

It's the same now. Borthwick has every right to be excited by the talent and style of rugby on show. Van Graan, Cheika and Lam are all foreign coaches. But they're helping England with the work they're doing and that's great. 

Attack is the way forward, but I don't really buy into the idea that the Premiership isn't preparing England's best young players for international rugby. It's not a coincidence that the product on show in our country's top league has been good for the last year or so and at the same time, the performances of Borthwick's England side have also started to improve.

It's also no coincidence that the three Premiership teams who have the best balance between attack and defence finished in the top three spots.

Runaway leaders Bath have a brilliant mix of back-line panache and power. They deserve a home semi-final and as the conductor of their orchestra, Van Graan has done a wonderful job. Bath will be favourites at home to Bristol on Friday night. There is no doubt about that. 

But I think Van Graan will also be very, very wary of the challenge coming from Lam's Bears. Bath only lost four Premiership games in the regular season and two of those were to Bristol. You can discount to a degree the second of those as Bath fielded a weakened team when the sides met in Cardiff.

But at The Rec in October, Bristol delivered a truly scintillating display to win. Both Van Graan and Lam will be well aware of that. Bristol will travel with no fear. 

I'm predicting home wins in both play-off matches, but only just. I think they will be incredibly tight games. Bristol can punch anyone out with their attacking game. It's that good, it can be enough to beat anyone on their day. 

And it's here I come back to Enrique. I'm sure Lam will be echoing the great Spaniard by urging his Bristol players – like PSG did in Munich – to hold nothing back and go for it. If Bristol do that, they will undoubtedly worry Bath. 

They will have to be 100 per cent accurate, however. Bath like to play themselves. Any team with Finn Russell at No 10 isn't going to be one dimensional. But I think for Bristol, Bath will go fairly direct. They'll know if they get sucked into an end-to-end attacking slugfest, they could well lose. 

If it's a tighter, more controlled game I think there's only one winner.

The second semi-final between Leicester and Sale is between two very similar teams. 

As the only English coach in the top four, I think Sanderson has taken Sale to another level. Sanderson was a player for me on an England A tour, so I remember him from a long time ago. I liked his attitude back then. He was a straight shooter. You see that now with his coaching. He says things as they are.

Sale have to travel to Leicester which does put them on the back foot. But it was only a few weeks ago that they made the same journey. In another madcap game, it was Leicester who won 44-34. But Sale could easily have come out the right side of the scoreboard that day.

That scoreline sums up what we've seen in the Premiership this season. The play-offs may well be lower scoring than the regular campaign. 

As the pressure and expectation mounts up and the games get bigger, tension can seep in and the matches tend to get tighter. But, as PSG showed against Inter, that doesn't have to happen. He who dares, wins. 

I really think that like the Champions League final, we are set for some thrilling rugby action this weekend. 

'I also fully believe the overall health of the English game to be in good order.

I'd really urge all rugby fans to get in front of a television screen on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon to watch the two games. I'm sure the entertainment is going to be first class.

The big question for me is which clubs will do a PSG and make a statement?