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/ 4869 days agoHappy New Year to EPL Talk Readers
I'd like to personally wish you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year. As 2012 comes to a close, I'd like to thank you all for a tremendous year — perhaps our best one yet at EPL Talk. Our website and coverage continues to grow. We had a daily podcast during Euro 2012, […]
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/ 4869 days agoHow Many Soccer Shirts Do You See In a Typical Week?
Three months ago, without telling anyone, I began a fun experiment on Twitter to live-tweet my life in suburbia (near West Palm Beach, Florida, to be exact). Since most of my life is consumed by watching, reading and writing about soccer, I thought it'd be an interesting experiment to live tweet any instances where I […]
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/ 4869 days agoGet Your Predictions in for Beat The Manager Gameweek 21
If you didn't get an iPad Mini for the holidays, or you want a second one, be sure to enter your predictions for Beat The Manager, gameweek 21. The deadline to get them in is this Wednesday at 6:30am ET. We're giving one away after the end of gameweek 25 — and with all of the […]
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/ 4869 days agoTop 10 EPL Things We Loved This Weekend
It's been another brilliant weekend in the Premier League, so I thought I'd try something new this week with a list of 10 things I loved about this Premier League gameweek 20 weekend that I either saw or read: 1. Cameron Jerome's goal for Stoke to make it 3-3. Who would have thought that before […]
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/ 4870 days agoSepp Blatter Slams MLS and US Soccer
In an interview released this weekend by Al Jazeera, FIFA President Sepp Blatter slammed Major League Soccer calling it "not a very strong professional league" and saying that "no professional (soccer) leagues (are) recognized by American society." The statements by Blatter will be extremely embarrassing to MLS and US Soccer executives particularly with the criticism […]
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/ 4870 days agoPremier League Sunday, Gameweek 20: Open Thread
While most of the attention has been off the pitch at the chilly reception that Rafa Benitez is expected to receive at Goodison Park in front of the Everton supporters, there's plenty of things on the pitch to discuss. Most importantly, a win for Everton will see them leapfrog over Chelsea into fourth place (and […]
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/ 4870 days agoPremier League Saturday Gameweek 20 Match Highlights [VIDEO]
After several nail-biting low-scoring games over the festive period, today's matches brought us an incredible 4.37 goals per game with 35 goals scored in eight Premier League matches. Here are the video highlights for all eight matches in the Premier League, gameweek 20: Sunderland vs Tottenham Hotspur Video: Sunderland v Tottenham Premier League Highlights 12/29/12 […]
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/ 4871 days agoPremier League Saturday, Gameweek 20: Open Thread
Fresh after beating Manchester City at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland opens today's Premier League football with another opportunity to see if they can knock one of the big EPL clubs off their perch — Tottenham Hotspur. The match kicks off at 7:45am ET/12:45pm UK time. Six 10am ET/3pm UK time matches follow, which include Manchester […]
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/ 4872 days agoLooking for Passionate Soccer Fans to Write for EPL Talk
If you eat, live and breathe Premier League football and you have a passion for writing, EPL Talk would like to invite you to write for our site. Over the years, many soccer fans who have started writing for EPL Talk have gone on to work for or be published on sites such as FOX […]
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/ 4873 days agoGet Your Predictions In For Beat The Manager, Gameweek 20
If you didn't get an iPad Mini for the holidays, or you want a second one, be sure to enter your predictions for Beat The Manager, gameweek 20. The deadline to get them in is this Saturday at 6:30am ET. We're still to announce who the winner of the iPad Mini for gameweek 18 (our DBA […]
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/ 4873 days agoSunderland Suspend Season Ticket Holders Due to 'Persistent Standing'
Sunderland Football Club have suspended season ticket holders who have been persistently standing at the Stadium Of Light. The above photo shows one of the seats at the stadium where a season ticket holder has been suspended. The actions are being taken to force Sunderland supporters to sit in their seats instead of standing. "Naturally […]
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/ 4873 days agoWhich Premier League Club Fills The Most Seats In Their Stadium?
We're at the halfway point of the 2012-13 Premier League season, so I thought I'd share some research in regards to which clubs are doing the best off the pitch in terms of filling up the most seats available in their stadium. Sure, Manchester United continues to have the largest average attendance by virtue of […]
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/ 4873 days agoIs This Manchester United's New Home Shirt for the 2013-14 Season? [PHOTO]
A photo of what appears to be Manchester United's new home shirt for next season has been leaked on the Internet. Designed by Nike, the new Manchester United home shirt features a black button down shirt collar as its most distinctive new feature. The rest of the shirt is red all over except for the […]
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/ 4873 days agoHow Biased Are You As a Supporter of Your Premier League Club?
One of the many interesting aspects of running EPL Talk is how I get to read and interact with football supporters from all of the 20 Premier League clubs throughout each season. One of the things I find particularly enlightening is how objective (or not) football supporters are. Take a topic such as the Ryan […]
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/ 4874 days ago7 Observations From Premier League's Boxing Day Matches
While we romanticize about Boxing Day fixtures in English football, the two things I often forget are (1) the matches are often low-scoring encounters since the quality of the pitch and weather this time of the year isn't the greatest, and (2) there's often a surprise result in store. We got both of those today. […]