euan walsh

Soccer fans are susceptible to nostalgia when they consider how much they enjoy the modern iteration of the game. Supporters love to reminisce about a better time of soccer. It was one where games were not disturbed by seemingly needless uses of VAR. Rivalries felt more intense as the colossal god-like figures of its era […]

Last summer's European Championships demonstrated something unsophisticated about modern international soccer. Europe's most prolific soccer nations faced off every few days with an abundance of world-class talent on display. Yet the end product often felt somewhat underwhelming. Games involving many of the tournament's favorites felt cluttered, disorganized and rigid compared to the highest quality of […]

Soccer is at the dawn of another digital revolution. There should be little doubt that a new docuseries surrounding Jude Bellingham titled Out of the Floodlights provides a glimpse of the dynamics that will shape soccer over the next several years. While it might retrospectively feel like an eternity has passed, Wayne Rooney's early social […]

During the Summer of 2022, Ryan Gravenberch, a then-20-year-old slimly framed deep-lying playmaker, was among soccer's most exciting emerging talents. Despite speculation that the Amsterdam-born midfielder could make moves to European giants AC Milan or Liverpool, who'd just come off the back of a near-perfect season, where they were just two games away from completing […]

World Soccer Talk writer Euan Walsh takes us on a journey to experience what life is like supporting a lower-league club in the United Kingdom. Walsh is a supporter of Swindon Town in the south of England. Swindon was previously in the Premier League but now finds itself in the fourth tier (League Two). England's […]

Newcastle United is close to spending $13 million, plus up to $6 million in add-ons, on Sheffield United's 21-year-old striker William Osula. It is rare, if not entirely unprecedented, for an English club outside the Premier League to receive such a lofty fee for a player who is still relatively unproven at any level of […]