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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 [...]

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 [...]

Liverpool have continued this season’s below par run with another defeat last night coming in the Euoropa League against Lille, where they fell to a 1-0 loss away from home in the first leg of their last 16 encounter.
Benitez thinks his side can do enough at home in the second leg at Anfield to progress. [...]

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 [...]

Here we have the official video highlights of England v Egypt from last night.
England won 3-1 in an entertaining match through goals from Shaun Wright-Phillips and Peter Crouch after Egypt, African Cup of Nations champions, had taken the surprise lead through Mohamed Zidan.
We don’t need too much chat right here, because there is a video [...]

Before I show you the photographic evidence, I must first say that Heurelho Gomes was outstanding on the weekend for Spurs against Portsmouth – he probably got his team 3 points in that game, and is beginning to look like the quality ‘keeper we knew him to be before his first few games for Tottenham [...]

Arsene Wenger has met with criticism from many camps over the past season or two after Arsenal have failed to achieve the same standard that he had brought during his first few heady years with the club.
Saturday’s match with Man City would seem to point to the fact that the Arsenal manager has dropped another [...]

Xabi Alonso yesterday became the next in a long list of summer 2009 transfers made by Real Madrid in their effort to prevent Barcelona repeating their excellent treble of last season.
The £30million paid to Liverpool for Alonso takes the club’s summer spending beyond the sensible £200million mark for one summer – after having signed Kaka [...]

Despite what the news might try to tell us, Twitter is not a good source of valid stories, whether about North Korea, or more important matters, such as football.
However, that was the place where, earlier this week, we started to hear rumours about Michael Owen heading to Manchester United.
Owen had failed to return to Newcastle [...]