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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Unless you are a reasonably good French speaker, there’s every chance you won’t understand too much of the commentary in the video above of last night’s UEFA Champions League Group G match between Fenerbache and Arsenal.
Arsenal have once again begun to dominate in Group games in Europe this season, this time running out 2-5 winners [...]

Dimitar Berbatov should look into a sposorship deal with Pringles because now that he’s popped, he just can’t stop! After waiting for what felt like a long time (time slowed down a little for each £ spent!) for Berbatov to score, he goes and bangs a goal in four games on the bounce, and we [...]