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/ 4801 days agoFA Cup 6th Round and Premier League Saturday Gameweek 29: Open Thread
There are six matches on deck today — two in the FA Cup and four from the Premier League. Kicking off the action is the early match between Everton and Wigan Athletic, two teams who are already dreaming of getting closer to winning FA Cup silverware. With the match taking place in the Sixth Round of […]
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/ 4801 days agoGet Your Predictions In For Beat The Manager, Gameweek 29
Gameweek 29 is almost upon us, and there are six Premier League matches in store this weekend. We’re getting closer to the next stage of Beat The Manager, the online prediction game from EPL Talk. After gameweek 30 ends, we’ll be giving away another Apple iPad Mini to one lucky person. If you haven’t played Beat The Manager before, […]
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/ 4802 days agoFOX Sports Still Deciding What To Do With FOX Soccer and FOX Soccer Plus, Says Spokesman
After FOX's announcement of the forthcoming launch of FOX Sports 1, the future of FOX Soccer, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2Go has yet to be decided according to a FOX Sports spokesperson. "We’re still assessing how to best deploy our remaining cable assets like FOX Soccer and FOX Soccer Plus, and when those […]
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/ 4802 days agoFOX Soccer Nets 520,000 Viewers for Live Broadcast of Man United-Real Madrid
FOX Soccer's telecast of Manchester United against Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League was viewed by 520,000 people in the United States on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The broadcast was the third most-watched game in FOX Soccer's history behind the 2011 Gold Cup Final (1.1 million) and Chelsea-Liverpool from 2011 (579,000). On FOX Deportes, […]
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/ 4803 days agoFOX Lowers Bar On Televised Soccer Games With Gus Johnson
While soccer fans in the United States were glued to their TV sets and Internet on Tuesday afternoon to watch Manchester United against Real Madrid on FOX Soccer, a major announcement was happening at the same time in New York City. At the Upfront Show in the Big Apple, FOX was pulling out all the […]
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/ 4805 days agoEnd Is Near for FOX Soccer With FOX Sports 1 to Begin Broadcasting Soccer In August
UPDATED: FOX's announcement today that its Speed Channel will be rebranded as FOX Sports 1 this August means that FOX Soccer's days as a 24/7 soccer network are numbered. FOX Sports 1 will launch as a 24/7 sports network on August 17, 2013. The long rumored news was made official today in a presentation in […]
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/ 4805 days agoWho's Your Manchester Utd Starting XI vs Real Madrid?
What starting lineup will Sir Alex Ferguson select today in the UEFA Champions League match against Real Madrid? Post yours in the comments section below. Sir Alex Ferguson says that Ryan Giggs will play a part in the match, which will be his 1,000th senior appearance. But will he start? There's also question marks about […]
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/ 4806 days agoFOX Soccer Does The Harlem Shake [VIDEO]
A tip of the hat to FOX Soccer for putting together their own version of The Harlem Shake featuring several of their production team having a blast in one of the meeting rooms at FOX's offices in Los Angeles. We've now had Harlem Shake videos from Manchester City, Fulham and Swansea City. Can it only […]
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/ 4807 days agoTottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal, Premier League Gameweek 28: Open Thread
Today's match between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal is arguably one of the biggest Premier League matches for the next few weeks especially if you consider the race for the Premier League title to be over. Unusually, Tottenham is the clear favorite in this match. Gareth Bale is in the hottest form of his career and […]
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/ 4807 days agoThe Piers Morgan Show On FOX Soccer: What's Your Opinion?
FOX Soccer is pulling out of the stops today by featuring opinionated Arsenal supporter and TV host Piers Morgan in its pre-match, half-time and post game analysis for the Tottenham Hotspur-Arsenal coverage. While I hope that the match itself will be the main talking point, I wanted to create this open thread to give you […]
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/ 4808 days ago‘The Fix: Soccer And Organized Crime’ is This Month’s Book Club Selection, Join the Discussion!
You, the readers, have spoken. The book discussion selection for March is the very timely international bestseller entitled The Fix: Soccer And Organized Crime by author and investigative journalist Declan Hill. In a recent article by Declan Hill in BBC Sport, the Canadian author says that "I do not mean that there is rampant fixing […]
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/ 4808 days agoPremier League Saturday: March 2, 2013
Ryan Giggs will play his 1,000th senior appearance today (as long as Sir Alex Ferguson doesn't spoil the plot). If he does play for the Red Devils, it'll be 22 years to the day when he made his debut for United on March 2, 1991. I, and many others, thought that Giggsy would be making his […]
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/ 4809 days agoFFS: Rafa Benitez's Rant, Ferguson Team Talk and Gareth Bale Force [VIDEO]
In the week that Rafa ranted, FFS brings an alternative look at football. Barry Deane presents a packed show featuring an exclusive look at an Alex Ferguson team talk, an appeal for Sid Down and a song for the Welsh wonder who has a rocket in his shoes, Gareth Bale. This week's episode is the […]
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/ 4809 days agoDecide Which Book Should Be March's Book Discussion Selection
EPL Talk has wrapped up two book discussions so far this year — Soccernomics 2.0, and The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw. But now it's time to pick a book to read for March, so I thought I'd ask you for your opinion. Go ahead and vote in the poll below for the book you […]
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/ 4809 days agoGet Your Predictions in for Beat The Manager Gameweek 28
We're getting closer to the next stage of Beat The Manager, the online prediction game from EPL Talk. After gameweek 30 ends, we'll be giving away another Apple iPad Mini to one lucky person. If you haven’t played Beat The Manager before, start today. A new iPad Mini will be awarded after Gameweek 30. It’s free to play. You […]