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/ 7000 days agoIt's Time To Put The Four Horse Race Out to Pasture
By John Nicholson The Champions League returns this week. Thank God. It seems to have been away for months. With 5 British clubs involved, at last we'll see some proper, competitive football games featuring the Premiership big four and Celtic. The top sides in the domestic leagues are so far ahead in terms of resources […]
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/ 7000 days agoPirate Feed of Fox Soccer Channel Creates Issues
Fox Soccer Channel is causing a bit of a stink down under, but it's not the sports network's fault. It seems that a web site named channelsurfing.net is playing an illegal stream of Fox Soccer Channel to viewers around the world, which has particularly upset executives in Australia. The Age newspaper from Melbourne, Australia, is […]
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/ 7000 days agoSoccer Shout Launches Redesigned Web Site
Soccer Shout, the daily podcast on English and Scottish football, has launched a redesigned version of their web site. The new-and-improved site will feature blog posts (previously at cleverfootball.com) as well as links to all of the latest episodes of the acclaimed podcast. Check it out when you get a chance.
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/ 7000 days agoDaylight Savings Time Favors Soccer Fans in U.S.
For you soccer die-hards who have been waking up at all hours of a Saturday or Sunday morning to get your Premiership fix, relief is on its way. Beginning March 11, the U.S. will move to Daylight Savings Time several weeks before usual, while the European Union won't move their clocks one ahead until March […]
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/ 7003 days agoChelsea Announces Groundbreaking Deal with YouTube
Chelsea is paving the way forward for Premiership clubs after they announced a deal with YouTube to offer videos online for their fans. This is a first for a Premier League club. This is a perfect example of how clubs such as Chelsea and Manchester United are miles ahead of the Premier League in terms […]
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/ 7003 days agoPremier League Redesigning Web Site
The Premier League has announced that they're redesigning their premierleague.com web site. Incredibly, the current design of the site hasn't changed since December, 2004. In fact, the design from September, 2002 looks remarkably similar. For a corporation that's bringing in $4.5 billion in TV revenue over the next three years, the current state of their […]
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/ 7004 days agoWho Said the FA Cup Isn't Entertaining?
It was a marathon, but I really enjoyed watching last night's FA Cup Fourth Round replay match on Fox Soccer Channel between Bolton against Arsenal. Arsenal made it all the more entertaining by missing two penalties and Adebayor squandering an open goal. But Bolton had their chances too hitting the post in the first half […]
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/ 7004 days ago2007/2008 Premier League Shirts/Jerseys/Kits
It's never too early to start looking at the new kits that the Premiership clubs will be unveiling this summer for the 20072008 Premier League season. There's already been a lot of activity, but here's what we know so far: Arsenal:Will be keeping their same home shirt, but will be coming out with a new […]
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/ 7004 days agoFollow The Money: U.S. Now In Vogue With Soccer
During the past few weeks, America is suddenly in vogue in regards to soccer. The latest development is that representatives from UEFA attended this year's Super Bowl in Miami to see how they can take some of the American ideas and make them work for the UEFA Champions League final scheduled in Athens this May. […]
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/ 7005 days agoPlatini Proposes Five Referees
New UEFA President Michel Platini has the answer for how to reduce the number of incorrect decisions made by referees: Add two referees in a match, so there are five officials on the pitch at one time. Platini's idea is to place a referee's assistant in each of the penalty areas to assist with offside […]
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/ 7005 days agoThe Phoenix Rising From The Ashes: Arsenal's Emirates Stadium
In the continuing series that explores my recent trip to England to watch top flight football, we take a look at my visit to Arsenal's Emirates Stadium: It's not often that the outside of ground looks just as attractive as the inside, but Arsenal's Emirates Stadium (or Ashburton Grove as many prefer to call it) […]
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/ 7005 days agoListen to These Two Recommended Soccer Podcasts
Just as many of you are, I'm also an avid listener of football podcasts. I don't know what I'd do without them as I now listen to podcasts 100% of the time and never seem to switch on the radio anymore. Two football podcasts of note that I want to tell you about are "Soccer […]
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/ 7005 days agoDerek Rae interview coming soon
It's with great pleasure to announce that the next guest of the EPL Talk Podcast will be the legendary football commentator Derek Rae from ESPN.Derek has been the lead commentator for Champions League matches for several years, and is — without a doubt — one of the most professional and listenable commentators in football right […]
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/ 7005 days agoArsenal Football Programmes
If you grew up like me where collecting football programmes was a fabric of your life, you'll be interested to know that Arsenal now offers a free version of their programme as a downloadable PDF. To download the programme from the Wigan match, go here. Or you can see the list of programmes to download […]
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/ 7005 days agoChampions League Could Decide Premiership Champion
To many, the race for the Premiership title seems all but over unless Manchester United comes undone between now and the end of the season. While the chance of that happening seems very doubtful, we have to consider what effect the Champions League will have on not only United, but Chelsea and also-rans Arsenal and […]