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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After 80 odd minutes of drudgery the other night (who would have thought it on Channel 5 after 9 o’clock – where were the warts and two headed babies?), Aalborg, the footballing dictionary table toppers (well, discounting 1fc Koln and others who start with a number anyway), managed to bury a shot in the [...]

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 [...]