I couldn’t stop laughing for 5 minutes after I saw this one from Iceland’s Pepsi league – a goal celebration involving one player playing the fisherman, one super talented actor playing the caught fish, and the whole thing with the team posing with their “catch” while a player fakes photographing them is just too good. Enjoy.

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Fabulous strike from Scott Parker, West Ham’s central midfielder, in front of the watching eyes of England Manager Fabio Capello, bringing West Ham level with Chelsea (1-1) in the match at Stamford Bridge.

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First of all, the sometimes brilliant, sometimes annoying and hated Dutch winger that is Arjen Robben, the super-striked Bayern Munich into the quarter finals with his amazing shot with his left from way out, giving Bayern the second away goal it needed, making Fiorentina very sad winners with a 3-2 victory at home, not enough to improve their rather disappointing season.

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Miles away in jolly London, Arsenal thrashed Porto 5-0, with Samir Nasri scoring a splendid third, toying with Porto’s defense with a breathtaking dribble and cold as ice finishing.

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Fresh off of the Young with potential but not delivering the goods post, we give you Matias Fernandez and his fantastic trickery and goal against Everton, as Sporting smashed the English club 3-0 and Fernandez left Jagielka quite confused. Maybe he still is, five days later.

After Chelsea beating Sunderland 3-1 and Wolves surprising Wigan 1-0 yesterday, we take a look at all the goals and action from today in the English Premiership – Burnley hosting Manchester United, Liverpool looking to rebound from their loss to Tottenham at home against Stoke, Tottenham going to Hull City and Birmingham hosting Portsmouth.

We’ll start with Burnley’s shocking win over Manchester United with this brilliant Robbie Blake goal – A fantastic volley into United’s net, Burnley win 1-0

Liverpool got their first win of the season, crushing Stoke City 4-0 at Anfield, with Fernando Torres, Dirk Kuyt, David N’gog and one brilliant Glen Johnson goal doing the damage.

Tottenham crushed Hull City at Hull 5-1, and currently lead the table in the Premiership. Jermaine Defoe scored a hat trick, with Robbie Keane and Wilson Palacios also adding a couple. Stephen Hunt netted his second goal of the season for Hull.

Finally, Birmingham got their first win in their return to the premiership, a 1-0 home win over Portsmouth, with James McFadden scoring a 90th minute Penalty.

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Two Amazing goals… One huge controversy… The Final Everyone, or almost everyone who’s not a Chelsea fan wanted… Are the heads of European Football happy with the outcome of this one? I’m not so sure…

Here is Essien’s Goal, 8th minute

Here’s Iniesta’s Goal (94th minute) and the mess at the end

He shouldn't have been the main man in this match. Sadly he was.

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Maybe this is the greatest team since “Grande Milan”. Maybe not. Manchester United have a ticket to Rome, and did so convincingly. They were 2-0 up after 11 minutes in the game, and except for the penalty kick scored by Van Persie late in the second half were never really close to conceding. A perfect or nearly perfect defensive display and flawless execution on the other side of the pitch by Ronaldo and Ji Sung Park left Arsene Wenger frowning and clueless throughout the match.

Kieran Gibbs was the tragic character of the night, as he slipped to allow Ji Sung Park to put United 1-0 up early on, looking close to burst in tears every time the camera zoomed in on him. Ronaldo blasted a free kick 3 minutes later that Manuel Almunia was short and late of saving.

A perfect counter attack that started with Ronaldo’s heel to Park and ended with Rooney assisting Ronaldo’s finish made it 3 in the 60th minute and started sending Arsenal fans to the exits. Van Persie scored from the Penalty spot 76 minutes into the game after Darren Fletcher was sent off for his foul, but that was it for Arsenal.

They were smiling later on

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Ferdinand and Vidic were perfect in covering Van Persie and Adebayor who tried moving left and right only to meet Evra and Oshea who handled Walcott and Nasri easily on each flank, while the midfield handled Fabergas fantastically. Cesc was weak to be gentle with the Spaniard. And without a good Fabergas, Arsenal didn’t stand a chance.

Arsenal’s season is over now, while United have 3 league games in one week that in the end of that run should be crowned English Champions for the 18th time and 3rd time in a row.

And for anyone who didn’t see or just wants to watch it again, here are the Red Devils at their best:

A fantastic goal from Theo Walcott early on led the way to a relaxed and fluid performance from the gunners who scored again from Adebayor (5th goal in 5 games) and a converted penalty kick from Robin Van Persie. So  after we had last night set us up with a great match up to look forward towards, Barcelona and Chelsea the second night gave the fans the big name match up most craved for, Manchester United and Arsenal.

Anyone with some extra cash can fly over to London on the first week of May for 2 games day after day in the English Capitol, with Arsenal hosting Man U on the 5th and Chelsea hosting Barca on the 6th, both 2nd leg matches.

Chelsea and Liverpool finished their 2nd leg of the Champions League Quarter Final in a thrilling (big understatement) 4-4 draw. Liverpool opened with 2 goals within the first half hour from Fabio Aurelio and a penalty kick from Xabi Alonso to take them leading 2-0 at the half. (Reminder: Chelsea won the first leg 3-1 in Liverpool).

The second half brought us 6 goals, with Chelsea scoring 3 straight, one own goal from Jose Reina, Liverpool’s goalkeeper, One Super free kick from Alex and another one from Frank Lampard.

Liverpool came back with 2 quick goals from Dirk Kuyt and Lucas to put them 4-3 in front, needing one more goal in the final 8 minutes to knock off Chelsea, but Frank Lampard was there for the Blues in the 89th minute to end it in a 4 all draw and put Chelsea in the next stage. But words don’t do this game justice, here are the goals.

Fabio Aurelio, 19th minute, 1-0 Liverpool

Didier Drogba/Jose Reina (Own Goal), 51st minute, 2-1 Liverpool

Alex, 57th minute, 2-2

Frank Lampard, 76th minute, 3-2 Chelsea

Lucas, 81st minute, 3-3

Dirk Kuyt, 82nd minute, 4-3 Liverpool

Frank Lampard, 89th minute, 4-4

P.S. : Sorry Xabi Alonso, but a penalty kick doesn’t cut it to get into the highlight film

A game in which Valladolid had just as much chances as Real eventually turned out as another victory for the Blancos, with goals from Raul (44th) minute and Arjen Robben (82nd) which keeps the title race quite alive for the remaining 8 games.

1-0: Raul

2-0: Robben