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Portsmouth have beaten Cardiff City by a single 37th minute goal from Nigerian striker Kanu to claim the FA Cup at Wembley. The game shown on BBC television wasn't a classic by any stretch of the imagination although Portsmouth  and Harry Redknapp won't care having managed to get there hands on some silverware this season which is there first since 1939.

Might as well get the Premiership football fixtures for next weekends matches in early. Fixtures are for games being played between 26/04/08 and 02/05/08. The biggest game is obviously Manchester United's championship clash with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, but my second pick of the weekends football action is Everton versus Aston Villa.

Manchester United seem to be securing the long term services of there English players after announcing new deals have been reached with Micheal Carrick, (the over rated and highly dislikable) Wes Brown and Rio Ferdinand. The length of the new contracts has not been disclosed and was announced to Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson by chief executive David Gill today.

This years Premier League is quickly coming to an end and although the Premiership title could still go one of 3 ways it looks highly unlikely Manchester United wont walk as champions this football term. Still the game between Manchester United and Arsenal this weekend is the one to watch on Sunday and should provide neutrals and fans with with a entertaining game of football.

 

Manager Arsene Wenger still believes that Arsenal can walk away with 2 trophies this term with the Premiership and Champions League. He's being pretty optimistic considering they have fallen behind Manchester United and Chelsea in the Premier League after leading the table for much of the season and a tough fixture at Anfield against boring boring Liverpool in the Champions League.

 

The first of todays big Premiership football games has been played with Manchester United beating arch rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford 3 - 0. Man U scored after 34 minutes as Wes Brown's header met Wayne Rooneys cross. Then it all went downhill for Liverpool as just before half time Liverpool had Javier Mascherano sent off after a second yellow card for dissent. Strangely Javier Mascherano's red card was given when they had won a free kick, idiot should have just got on with the game of football!

Unbelievable I know but Kevin Keegan's Newcastle Unite managed to win a English Premiership football game! It was their first in 14 games and first in 10 since Kevin Keegan too charge of Newcastle since returning. Newcastle ended up beating Fulham 2 - 0 with goals from both Michael Owen and Mark Viduka. Hopefully this'll do Owen's confidence a world of good especially after being called up by England for their friendly against France.

Portsmouth striker Jermain Defoe has been tole he can't play against his former club Tottenham for tomorrows football games by the Premier League! The Premier League claim that no player that is loaned to another team may play against the team providing the loaned player. This is really a bit stupid as Portsmouth and Tottenham agreed to a loan as the transfer window was closing then the deal was made permanent afterwards. Portsmouth are obviously not happy and apparently Tottenham were expecting there former striker to be playing against them.

How bloody annoying and yes I know its old news now, but its still winding me up that UEFA have decided to give Sky the television broadcasting rights to the majority of the Champions League football games from next season! Sky have reportedly paid around £240 million in the TV deal! There is some light at the in all this though as ITV or the BBC could potentially obtain the rights to first choice games and joint TV rights to the Champions League final. We will have to see though I just hope they don't take all Champions League football games away from terrestrial television as apart from the FA Cup we don't get to watch much football on TV anymore.

Sunderland manager Roy Keane has spoken out in support of the recently proposed idea of Premiership football games being played around the world. So far the proposal has met a pretty mixed response from being praised to severally criticised. But according to comments made by Roy Keane today he believes change is a good thing for the English Premiership.