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/ 6455 days agoPremier League Wants To Be The NFL
You may have missed an article by Oliver Kay in The Times this past weekend that featured a very revealing interview with Manchester City executive chairman Garry Cook regarding the future of the Premier League. The headline perfectly sums up Kay's article: "Vision Of A Breakaway League With No Relegation." Here are the revealing quotes […]
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/ 6456 days agoPremier League: August 24, 2008 (Your Running Commentary)
Get ready for another Super Sunday of English Premier League matches. Chelsea visits Wigan, where the Blues infamously dented their Premier League title hopes in April when Emile Heskey scored a dramatic late equalizer. Manchester City, meanwhile, will hope to bring a smile to their fans by winning their first home match of the new […]
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/ 6456 days agoEverton Launches New Third Kit For 2008/2009 Season
Add Everton to the hall of shame that includes Chelsea and Wigan. All three teams are guilty of producing yellow flourescent shirts that are absolutely horrible. I mean, come on, who would actually buy these shirts and wear them in the main street? Everton debuted the new third shirt during yesterday's 2-1 away win against […]
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/ 6457 days agoWarning Signs For Liverpool Despite Injury Time Winner Against Boro
If Liverpool fans have dreams of winning the Premier League this season, they can kiss them goodbye. Today at Anfield, Liverpool escaped with a 2-1 win over Middlesbrough with a woeful performance that was rescued by an own goal and then an injury time goal by Steven Gerrard. This was a cruel blow to Middlesbrough […]
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/ 6457 days agoPremier League: Gameweek Two (Your Running Commentary)
Gameweek two of the Premier League features several intriguing match-ups. Liverpool faces their bogey team Middlesbrough. Tottenham is looking for their first points of the season at home against Sunderland, which is quickly being transformed into a contender. Everton faces more doom and gloom if they lose at the Hawthorns against West Brom, and Arsenal […]
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/ 6460 days agoEngland v Czech Republic (Your Running Commentary)
England plays the Czech Republic in a friendly today at 3pm ET/8pm UK time. The game will be shown live on Fox Soccer Channel for U.S. viewers, while U.K. viewers can find the match on Setanta Sports. It should be interesting to see how Fabio Capello's side does at Wembley on a night when Emile […]
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/ 6460 days agoPlay Football Manager: 1982 Sinclair ZX Spectrum Version
If you want to take a walk down memory lane or you're interested in seeing what all of the fuss is about, you can now play an online version of the original Football Manager game. This revolutionary game runs on an online emulator so it looks, feels and plays like the 1982 version of the […]
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/ 6461 days agoBBC World News Interviews The Gaffer
It's a really busy but exciting time in the Premier League right now, and the same is true at EPL Talk HQ — where Hurricane Fay, now Tropical Storm Fay, is bringing a ton of rain, wind and tornadoes on us. While we're trying to stay dry and safe, there's a few important updates I'd […]
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/ 6461 days agoAnother Reason To Hate NBC's Olympic Soccer Coverage
Watching Brazil against Argentina in the semi-final of the Olympic games this morning, I felt like I was in a timewarp back to the late 1980's. That's because NBC, in their infinite stupidity, are breaking for TV commercials in the middle of the game. And just as it routinely happened in the late 1980's (including […]
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/ 6462 days agoChelsea's Joe Cole Changes His Name To Jole Cole
The Daily Telegraph must have been so mesmerized by Joe Cole's performance on Sunday that it forgot what the Chelsea winger's name was.See the screenshot above from the online version of the newspaper tonight, and don't be surprised if the headline is fixed by the time you read the article.
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/ 6462 days agoAre Manchester City Fans Getting Fatter?
Are Manchester City fans getting fatter or are they requesting baggier shirts for fashion reasons?! I think the former. The above image is taken from Man City's online shop.
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/ 6462 days agoPremier League Footballers On All-Star Injury Fantasy Team
We thought it'd be fun to pick our all-star injury football team featuring those Premier League players that always seem to be injured. Thanks to the EPL Talk readers who participated in last weekend's EPL Talk Chat for the idea. Chris Kirkland Gary Neville Mikael Silvestre Jonathan Woodgate Ledley King Owen Hargreaves Kieron Dyer Tim […]
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/ 6462 days agoGary Oldman Stars In ITV Football Commercial
Famous actor Gary Oldman stars in a new TV commercial to promote ITV's football coverage for the upcoming season. The London born actor has starred in so many great movies including True Romance, The Dark Knight, JFK, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sid & Nancy and other great films. In the TV commercial, Oldman walks through different […]
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/ 6462 days agoNew Manchester City Third Shirt: Your Opinion
Manchester City may want to quickly forget their debut performance in their new third shirt. City wore the new orange football kit for the first time Sunday when they lost 4-2 against an on-song Aston Villa side. Designed by Le Coq Sportif and sponsored by Thomas Cook, the new Manchester City third shirt features blaze […]
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/ 6462 days agoEPL Talk Readers Lead Worldwide Fantasy Premier League Table
Out of the thousands of private leagues participating in the official Fantasy Premier League, we're proud to announce that EPL Talk sits in first place worldwide after the opening weekend of the new season. With 830 managers and growing, the average number of points for EPL Talk managers is an impressive 61.4 If you're looking […]