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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 [...]

The first English cup competition was decided yesterday as the introduction of Wayne Rooney led to Manchester United turning round an early 1-0 deficit to lift the 2010 Carling Cup by defeating Aston Villa 2-1.
Rooney scored the winner with an excellent header into the top corner from a pinpoint Valencia cross, after he was brought [...]

How short, it seems, our memories are in the fickle world of football!
Just over five years ago, Leeds United were a Premier League football team. Around ten years ago, David O’Leary had amassed a squad of excellent ability which was playing in the Champion’s League and looking like making a serious challenge to the title.
The [...]

Tottenham Hotspur were 1 up against Manchester United thanks to a wonderful overhead volley scored by Jermain Defoe within the first few minutes.
Man United equalised through Ryan Giggs to level the scores at 1-1 after 25 minutes. Giggs scored direct from a free kick following a foul on ex-Spurs man Dimitar Berbatov, who has been [...]

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 [...]

And so it seems that Cristiano Ronaldo will finally get his wish: by June 30th 2009, Cristiano Ronaldo will be a Real man. Real Madrid, that is, as Alex Ferguson has agreed to transfer Manchester United’s top scorer to the club for a credit crunching £80 million.
As transfer fees go, this is a whopper, which [...]

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 [...]

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