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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now that many of us have broken up for Christmas, its time to get our Premier League review hats on, and make a couple of predictions for the League as we roll ever onwards towards 2009. Have 9 years really passed since the dawn of the new millenium? Will Liverpool finally lift the title this [...]