Karl Sears

On the Thursday edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Laurence McKenna and myself look back at Tuesday and Wednesday's fixtures, including the claiming of the final FA Cup semifinal spot. Also, we look forward to the weekend's matches in the Premiership, where Chelsea will be pressed to maintain their midweek form against Aston Villa. At […]

On Wednesday's edition of the podcast we welcome Richard Whittall, the award-winning blogger whose work can be found at A More Splendid Life and Pitch Invasion, where he is the associate editor. In this interview he speaks a writer, musician, and Aston Villa supporter, as we talk about his approach to chronicling the game and […]

Declan Hill's The Fix (uk, us) has quickly become a seminal book in contemporary football, sounding the alarm on the growing problems of corruption and organized crime in world football. Months after Declan's previous appearance on the show, we redress the issue of match-fixing in Champions League and Europa League while looking forward to the […]

Declan Hill, critically acclaimed author of The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime (uk, us), will be joining me (later today) for Tuesday's EPL Talk Podcast: talking about the ongoing potential for corruption in football; reflecting the issues discussed in his previous appearance; looking toward this summer's World Cup. If you have any questions or discussion […]

Manchester United has snapped their losing streak to Liverpool while Chelsea stumbled at Ewood Park. In this episode of the EPL Talk Podcast, I am joined by Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishniayer to talk about those results, Arsenal's sole possession of second place, the race for fourth and the two big matches that reinforced the […]

On previous episodes of the Major League Soccer Talk podcast, we have approached the potential players strike from the media's perspective (Grant Wahl, Steve Davis), the (former) player's perspective (Claudio Reyna), as well as the legal perspective (our February series). Today, we get more of a fan's perspective, though a fan's perspective that's informed by […]

Six weeks ago, Oliver Kay joined us ahead of the onset of UEFA Champions League's Round of 16, venturing a prediction that the English Premier League teams would find this year's tournament rougher than those of the preceding seasons. Today, Oliver joined me to reflect on the knock-out round performances of Manchester United, Arsenal, and […]

Thanks to Dave Clark at SounderAtHeart, we have a better idea if MLS owners are actually losing money, a key part of a recent public relations effort (see Leiweke and Wolf) to take the labor debate to the fans. The idea that MLS is losing money is one of the key (if not the only) […]

Chelsea has been eliminated from UEFA Champions League, having lost 1-0 to José Mourinho and Internazionale at Stamford Bridge, leaving the tournament on Tuesday after a 3-1 aggregate defeat. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Kartik Krishnaiyer and myself review the Special One's return to the Bridge and ask how the surviving English […]

On this episode of the EPL Talk podcast, Fox Soccer Channel's Bobby McMahon joined me to discuss Tuesday's visit by José Mourinho and Internazionale to Stamford Bridge, taking on Chelsea in the second leg of the clubs' UEFA Champions League Round of 16 tie. We break down the match as well as talk about FSC's […]

The three contenders for the Premier League title got through the weekend unscathed while Spurs find themselves two points clear in the race for fourth after Manchester City got (only) a miraculous draw at Sunderland. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Laurence McKenna and myself review the weekend's matches as well […]

From Liverpool, we are reading quotes from Everton FC manager David Moyes saying that a strike means Landon Donovan would stay at Everton. "The loan officially finishes tomorrow and we will send him back but I think there is still a chance that the players there might strike and if that was the case then […]

On this episode of the EPL Talk podcast, Soccerex's Misha Sher rejoined the podcast to talk about ... his views on the stage of the World Cup 2018 bids, any improvements in England's bid, the strength of Russia's bid, Soccerex's recent European Expo in Manchester, American sports business models and European football, the debt problems […]

Thursday gives the team of Kartik Krishnaiyer, Laurence McKenna and Richard Farley their first chance to reflect on a banner week for the Premiership in the UEFA Champions League. The team gets together to discuss Manchester United's 4-0 (7-2) win over AC Milan, Arsenal's 5-0 (6-2) win over Porto, Thursday's Europa League match for Fulham […]

Barney Ronay is a senior sports writer for the Guardian and a regular contributor to When Saturday Comes. In this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, I pick up when we left off the last time Barney was on the program, talking about the state of the manager in the English game. Barney, who wrote […]