Final Whistle

Well, we have to watch this again, if only just to marvel at Mister Messi and his incredible ability to make the highest level of football look like it was invented only as his playground.
If we scored these four in a two hour training session, we’d still be talking about that mythical event for years [...]

While we are Premier Football mad here at the Premier Football Blog, Final Whistle, we have to hold our hands up and admit when we are well beaten: Lionel Messi was immense last night with four superbly taken goals that proved to be the difference as Barce knocked out Arsenal 6-3 on aggregate in their [...]

Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand are expected to be fit for Tueday’s UEFA Champions League Quarter Final first leg against Bayern Munich, of Germany, according to the BBC this morning.
If this is true, it looks like they will have the upper hand in the injury stakes, as Bayern look set to play the tie without [...]

Game of the week by a mile was this epic encounter between Fiorentina and Bayern Munich.
This battle between Champions League sides was poised going into the tie, with Bayern carrying a 2-1 lead from the home leg, until Fiorentina went and scored, putting them through if the match finished due to away goals.The first goal [...]

As we waxed lyrical about the performance of Arsenal on Tuesday night – and spoke of how it pointed to the English Premier League (we are The Premier Football Blog after all!) as one of the strongest in the world – we couldn’t really let messers Rooney and co go about demolishing Italian past-masters Milan [...]

As we are the Premier Football Blog, we thought that we should talk about Arsenal’s stunning demolition of Porto at the Emirates last night in their last 16 of the UEFA Champion’s League 2010 second-leg clincher.
Arsenal sailed through 6-2 on aggregate, despite a nervy first-round performance suggesting they might falter in this two-legged race.
Falter they [...]

And so we got the final everyone, it seems, wanted: Barcelona, champions of Spain, versus Manchester United, the English Champs (and Club World Champions): for tonight is the final of the biggest football tournament in the world, the UEFA Champions League Final 2009 takes place in Rome at 19:45 BST.
Millions of eyes will be tuning [...]

All of us with football shaped eyes will be looking at only one thing, come 19:45 this evening: the Inter Milan v Man United Champion’s League Last 16 match!
While most in the media are busy talking up the character’s of Ferguson and Mourinho, those of us who love football are going weak at the knees [...]

Arsenal played out a bore draw with their UEFA Champion’s League Group G rivals Fenerbahce to remain top. Arsenal were booed by their home supporters after watching a pallid game in which Robin van Persie missed a hat-full of chances.
We haven’t got any highlights of this game, perhaps because there weren’t many.
There isn’t much further [...]

Celtic took on Manchester United last night in their European Champion’s League Group E fixture and almost stole the show after Scott McDonald scored with a sublime lob on 13 minutes.
Traveling United fans must have been starting to get a little worried as it took United, despite much early dominence, until the 84th minute to [...]