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/ 4860 days agoThe Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Watch Chelsea-Swansea Today in the USA
Chelsea plays at home against Swansea City today in the first leg of their League Cup game. For the Blues, it represents their first opportunity to move a giant step closer to winning their first piece of silverware this season. The match will give us another opportunity to see how Rafael Benitez will set up […]
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/ 4861 days agoGet Your Predictions in for Beat The Manager, Gameweek 22
Be sure to enter your predictions for Beat The Manager, gameweek 22. The deadline to get them in is this Saturday at 6:30am ET. We’re giving one away after the end of gameweek 25 — and with all of the gameweeks happening thick and fast because of the mid-week matches, gameweek 25 is just around the […]
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/ 4861 days agoThat Beautiful Moment In Soccer Games That Words Cannot Describe
Outside of goals, near misses or wonderful saves, if I had to identify one aspect of soccer that I absolutely love it would be this: That moment in a game when a team gains a sudden sense of urgency and confidence after a key moment happens in a match. Those moments don't happen in every […]
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/ 4862 days agoESPN Makes Wrong Decision to Reprimand Jon Champion Over Luis Suarez Handball Incident
When we watch our English football games, we want to hear qualified commentators and opinionated co-commentators who aren't too afraid to tell us what they think. Otherwise what we would end up with are sanitized broadcasts that are politically correct to the detriment of our viewing and hearing experience. After Luis Suarez handled the ball […]
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/ 4862 days agoBarcelona Featured On 60 Minutes On US TV [VIDEO]
Barcelona was featured on CBS's 60 Minutes show Sunday night, the weekly TV show that is an institution on US television. In a rare appearance for soccer on a prime-time news show, 60 Minutes visited Barcelona's Camp Nou as well as the team's academy at La Masia. If you haven't watched the feature, be sure […]
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/ 4863 days ago'Soccernomics: Revised and Expanded Second Edition' is This Month's Book Club Selection, Join the Discussion!
We're starting a new feature on EPL Talk — a monthly book club selection where you, the reader, get to discuss a chosen book with fellow readers, as well as to increase your knowledge about the beautiful game and, when possible, chat with the author about the book of the month. For the first monthly […]
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/ 4863 days agoFA Cup Sunday, Third Round: Open Thread
After yesterday's shock wins for Macclesfield and Luton Town, there are still a couple of opportunities today for more shocks in the third round of the FA Cup. Swansea City plays Arsenal in the first game of the day (kick-off 8:30am ET on FOX Soccer in the United States) followed by Mansfield Town versus Liverpool […]
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/ 4864 days agoFOX's FA Cup TV Coverage of West Ham-Manchester United: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
FOX today made history by televising the first-ever FA Cup match to be shown live on free-to-air television in the United States. The match between West Ham United and Manchester United lived up to its billing and featured plenty of goals, but how did the people behind the scenes and in front of the cameras […]
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/ 4864 days agoFA Cup Saturday, Third Round: Open Thread
FA Cup fever is here. This is the Saturday of the season that, for many, is the one that we look forward to the most. And there are several potential shock results on the cards. For readers in the United States, here's the TV and Internet schedule for today: Saturday, January 5: Brighton vs Newcastle […]
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/ 4864 days agoSir Alex Ferguson Urges Inquiry Into Tottenham's Signing of Zeki Fryers: The Nightly EPL
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson came out on the offensive Friday to criticize Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy over the Spurs signing of Zeki Fryers, a former Manchester United youth academy footballer. Ferguson is incensed that Tottenham signed the player from Standard Liege in Belgium. Tottenham tried to sign the 20-year-old footballer in the summer, […]
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/ 4864 days agoWhy this Weekend's FA Cup Matches Will Separate the Casual Soccer Fans From the Hardcore
I've lost count of the number of times that I've heard that the FA Cup deserves more respect from football supporters. In fact, I'd argue the opposite. It doesn't deserve more respect. If anything, it just deserves to be given a fair chance. Let me explain. I've found that a FA Cup weekend often separates soccer […]
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/ 4866 days agoThierry Henry: Legend – Full Length TV Documentary [VIDEO]
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has ruled out a loan deal for Thierry Henry at the club, but some day in the future, the Frenchman will return to the club. It's inevitable. In the meantime, here's a TV documentary I unearthed. It originally aired in 2008 on British TV network ITV. The documentary features plenty of […]
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/ 4867 days agoFOX Elevates US Coverage of the FA Cup to Its Free-to-Air TV Network
After FOX lost in their joint bid with ESPN to secure the US media rights to the Premier League for seasons 2013-16, one of the unlikely winners of the decision is the FA Cup. With FOX only having five months of the Premier League remaining before they "hand over the keys" to NBC Sports, FOX […]
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/ 4868 days agoPremier League New Years Day, Gameweek 21: Open Thread
Ugh, hangover from a very Happy New Years Eve, so it'll be a shorter preamble than usual! I feel like the color of Fulham's away shirt today. Here are today's matches: Tuesday, January 1: West Brom vs Fulham, 7:45am, FOX Soccer Wigan vs Manchester United, 10am, FOX Soccer Manchester City vs Stoke, 10am, ESPN Deportes/ESPN3.com […]
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/ 4868 days agoManchester United's Defense Is Worst In 11 Years
The current Manchester United defense is the worst in 11 years. In the first 19 games of the 2012-13 Premier League season, Manchester United have conceded 28 goals, an average of 1.47 goals per match. The last time United had a worse defensive record was in 2001 when they conceded the same number of goals […]