Karl Sears

In what is becoming a post-United States Men's National Team match tradition, I welcome Fox Sports' senior soccer writer Jamie Trecker. We talk about the team's performance last Wednesday in Amsterdam, where the team lost to the Netherlands 2-1.

BSkyB's Martin Tyler was voted Premier League Commentator of the Decade. This summer, he will be the lead commentator for ESPN's coverage of the World Cup in the United States. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, the broadcasting icon joined me to talk about his preparations for the World Cup, what story lines […]

The FA Cup quarterfinals and Manchester United and Arsenal's continued assault on the Premiership's lead highlight this weekend review edition of the EPL Talk podcast. Laurence McKenna and Richard Farley take you through the four FA Cup matches, the England national team's mid-week performance, the four weekend matches in the Premier League, and the prospects […]

Reports in England confirm that Everton is talking to Major League Soccer and the Los Angeles Galaxy about extending Landon Donovan's loan. The original loan deal sending Donovan to Liverpool was for ten weeks, putting the league's Most Valuable Player back in Los Angeles before the club kicks off their season on March 27 at […]

On this edition to the Major League Soccer Talk podcast, I'm joined by a former captain of the United States Men's National Team, Claudio Reyna. This is the second part of my interview with Claudio, with the first portion released yesterday at EPL Talk (as that part dealt with his experience abroad). In this portion, […]

The Guardian's Jonathan Wilson is best known for his knowledge of Eastern European football as well as his tactical and formation analysis. On this episode of the EPL Talk podcast, the author of Sunderland: A Club Transformed (uk, us), Behind the Curtain (uk, us), Inverting the Pyramid (uk, us) joins us to talk about his […]

Claudio Reyna played midfield for Manchester City and Sunderland after stints with Rangers, VfL Wolfsburg and Bayer Leverkusen, earning the nickname Captain America along the way. Last week, I sat down with Claudio at the Adidas World Cup Media Day and talked to him about his career and his view on the changes at Manchester […]

Setanta Ireland's Paul Dempsey has been a fixture on the channel's Premier League studio presentation since he moved to the channel from Sky in 2006. This weekend was Paul and Pat Dolan's last broadcast to the United States, Setanta having lost the U.S. rights to the Premier League. On Friday, Paul joined me to discuss […]

Landon Donovan has impressed David Moyes and the Everton FC brass enough to justify a purchase, though the Toffees' gaffer is resigned to losing the American star when the player's loan expires this month. Once the Galaxy star returns stateside, the precarious labor situation could put Donovan's Liverpool future on hold indefinitely, regardless of whether […]

Michael Ballack's Saturday performance has been heretofore overshadowed by the traumatic injury suffered by Aaron Ramsey, but while there has been a debate as to the fairness of Ryan Shawcross's tackle on the Welsh protégé, there can be no doubt about Ballack's embarrassing attack on Carlos Tévez. The score was 3-1, Manchester City in the […]

Silverware was awarded, Stamford Bridge was invaded, and Arsenal was traumatically brought face-to-face with history on a memorable weekend of English football. On this edition of the EPL Talk Podcast, Laurence McKenna, Kartik Krishnaiyer and host Richard Farley look back on the weekend's action, from League Cup, to the top of the table, to the […]

Guy Mowbray is one of the components of BBC's Match of the Day and will be on hand at Wembley on Sunday for the League Cup final. Earlier this week, he joined the EPL Talk Podcast to break down the match-up between Aston Villa and Manchester United as well as talk about the English football […]

The success of Andrew Mangan's blog has branded him as the Arseblogger, proprietor of Arseblog.com. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Stephen Darwin welcomes the Arseblogger back to the podcast, getting his views on the start of Arsenal FC as they sit third in the Premiership and are amidst their Champions League tie […]

Grant Wahl is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and author of the best seller, The Beckham Experiment. In Tampa for the U.S. Mens National Team's friendly with El Salvador, Grant joined the MLS Talk podcast Wednesday to talk USMNT and, more urgently, the ongoing negotiations in Major League Soccer over a new Collective Bargaining […]

On the Wednesday edition of the EPL Talk Podcast we were proud to welcome David Goldblatt, renowned for his work on The Ball is Round (uk, us), possibly the definitive book chronicling the history of football. David is also regularly featured at Prospect Magazine, where he has recently written pieces on the legacy of the […]