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/ 5764 days ago

Which Premier League Side has the Best Home Support?

That's the question I want readers of EPL Talk to pay special attention to over the course of the next few weeks as each club will get a chance to open up a new season at home. As the new campaign starts, every club has ambitions and feel like world beaters as they begin anew. […]
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/ 5765 days ago

Music, Media and Manchester: The Search for North West England's Best Band

If you've ever read any of my writing previously you'll know I'm prone to mention various elements of pop culture, music, film or television as references in my writing, sometimes even how they coincide with each other. Along with football, writing and the occasional book, those few entities make up the majority of my hobbies, interests and general […]
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/ 5767 days ago

Four Top Four Players to Watch This Premier League Season

After a long, hot summer filled with plenty of football, we now stand between what's left of the work week before the Premier League returns with guns blazing, before Arsenal look like world beaters for four months on all those pristine green pitches before the weather turns, and before your least favorite post, Premier League […]
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/ 5768 days ago

Were Football Fans Right to Boo England Players During the Community Shield?

The Premier League season officially kicked off on Sunday with Manchester United grabbing the first available piece of silverware on offer by beating Chelsea 3-1 at Wembley in front of large audience. The match opened with a frenetic pace as both sides saw early chances come and go with no end result. Paul Scholes enjoyed […]
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/ 5769 days ago

Fabio Capello Names New Look England Squad

England boss Fabio Capello has named his 23 man squad that will face Hungary on Wednesday at Wembley, England's first match since their defeat at the hands of Germany in the World Cup. In the squad, Capello has shuffled fourteen players from the England team who featured and ultimately underwhelmed this summer at the World […]
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/ 5773 days ago

Four Non Top Four Players to Watch This Premier League Season

As the Community Shield approaches this weekend to officially kick off another ten months of Premier League football, here are a few non big four yet solid and exciting players to watch this season. For those more interested in big four teams, watch this space for more preview posts to come before the opening weekend.
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/ 5774 days ago

Tottenham Hotspur in the Ascendancy, But What Constitutes a Successful Season?

As Spurs boss Harry Redknapp looks to further strengthen his squad this summer, fans of the North London club are approaching one of the most anticipated seasons in club history after a brilliant end to a successful one last May. After Tottenham open the 2010-2011 Premier League season at home v Manchester City, they've only […]
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/ 5778 days ago

Sky 3D to Feature Premier League Available October 1st in Homes

Sky+HD customers will soon have a new way to enjoy Premier League matches in the UK from the comfort of their own homes when the television giant launches Sky 3D in a few months. It was announced today that the previously-only-available-in-pubs 3D channel will launch in homes at the beginning of October with the Ryder Cup as […]
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/ 5779 days ago

Manchester United 5-2 MLS All Stars: Five Star United Shows Class

Mexican new boy Javier Hernandez joined up with his new team as Manchester United continued their American exploits, this time in Houston, Texas as the MLS All Stars stood in wait. Sir Alex elected for another young squad with old boy Ryan Giggs thrown in for good measure. An impressive and packed crowd of 70,000+ […]
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/ 5781 days ago

Did Soccer Grow in the US this Summer?

As Premier League football fans languish in the desert of meaningful matches and as we've now reached a sort of middle point between the end of the World Cup and the beginning of the Premier League season, I can't help but to wonder if soccer grew, stayed about the same, or took a small step […]
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/ 5782 days ago

Manchester United 1-2 Kansas City Wizards: United's American Tour Hits Snag

Having reported on United's earlier stop in Philadelphia last week to mixed results, I feel the need to continue my so called 'following' of the club as they continue their trek across America before ending it in Mexico. Don't call this a match report or match analysis, outside circumstances kept me from devoting the time […]
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/ 5786 days ago

Manchester United 1-0 Philadelphia Union: American Summer Tour Continues With Win for United

Having experienced a DVR mental lapse when it came to United's first stop on their American tour v Celtic, I finally got the opportunity to see Manchester United take on Philadelphia Union of MLS in a pretty entertaining friendly match Wednesday evening. Sir Alex Ferguson elected to start an attacking 4-3-3 with Danny Welbeck, Federico […]
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/ 5786 days ago

Should Premier League Clubs Allow Vuvuzelas?

As of press time, eight Premier League clubs have taken the precautionary step to ban the controversial vuvuzela still a few weeks until the domestic league starts. Other clubs such as Chelsea, Manchester City and Blackpool have openly spoken of their intentions to not ban the plastic South African horns and to leave it up […]
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/ 5788 days ago

Could German World Cup Star Mesut Ozil Be Premier League Bound?

In what could easily be the transfer of the summer, 21 year old German wunderkid Mesut Ozil could be Premier League bound if the right price and right club come a'calling. Ozil, currently in the Bundesliga at Werder Bremen, has a current contract that expires at the end of the 2010-2011 season. If Bremen can't […]
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/ 5789 days ago

Should Fabio Capello Drop John Terry From the England Team?

In a quite odd turn of events, former Italy captain and World Cup 2006 winner Fabio Cannavaro believes John Terry is soon likely to face the ax when next Fabio Capello calls upon players for Euro 2012 qualifiers. In a recent interview with the Daily Star Sunday, Cannavaro spoke openly about John Terry and how […]
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