World Soccer Talk

Founder/Editor of Howler magazine, George Quraishi, recently traveled to Greece to learn about the tumultuous world of Greek football and the complex but storied rivalries between clubs such as Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, as well as Aris and PAOK. Quraishi also continues his journey to Greece and dives deeper into the corruption and financial difficulties of […]

Manchester United played Chelsea today in the biggest match of the Premier League season to date. Jose Mourinho surprised everyone by starting his team with no recognized strikers, and fielding attacking midfielders instead as their offensive threat. Meanwhile, David Moyes had his own surprise up his sleeve as he started Wayne Rooney despite being the […]

Arsenal's Emirates Stadium opened in July, 2006 for Dennis Bergkamp's testimonial match against Ajax. But the story behind how the stadium was built, within viewing distance of Highbury Stadium, is a fascinating one that many soccer fans, even Arsenal supporters, may not know. Watch the following documentary entitled 'Building the Emirates Stadium' to learn the […]

Serie A club Parma unveiled their centenary shirt this week to celebrate 100 years of the club being in existence. The special edition home shirt will only be worn one time, on December 15 against Cagliari — which is almost 100 years to the day when Parma was founded. The Parma centenary shirt is an […]

In case you missed any of the highlights from the Premier League today, or if you want to watch them again, here they are in all their splendid glory. Fulham vs Arsenal Video unavailable Southampton vs Sunderland Video unavailable Everton vs West Bromwich Albion Video unavailable Stoke City vs Crystal Palace Video unavailable Hull City […]

The 2013/14 season of Serie A kicked off earlier today featuring Verona against AC Milan. The next match on deck is Sampdoria versus Juventus, which will be shown live on television — for viewers in the United States — on beIN SPORT beginning at 2:30pm ET. Juventus will want to get their new season off […]

British website MCV published a fascinating article this week about how the FIFA video game franchise went from an afterthought to a global phenomenon. The story began in 1993 when EA's European office pushed the North American company to give them permission to create a soccer game. According to the assistant producer who worked on […]

If you want to see what the Next-Gen version of FIFA 14 on an Xbox One looks like, watch the video below that was shot at the Gamescon video conference in Cologne, Germany. It's one of the few rare videos that actually shows what the gameplay looks like instead of the replay footage. H/T IGN.

After cruising to their first win of the Premier League season, Chelsea faced a tough opponent in Aston Villa. Aston Villa showed no signs of offensive life until stoppage time of the first half, when Christian Benteke tied the game. Chelsea would take the lead after a Branislav Ivanovic header in the 73rd minute. Here […]

Arsenal faced a true test of its character tonight with a match against Fenerbahce in Istanbul, in front of a physical team and an intimidating atmosphere. After being thoroughly beaten on Saturday against Aston Villa, could Arsenal take a big step in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League match in order to move […]

The famous adage that "football is a funny old game" is very true. Not many would have predicted that Aston Villa would get a 3-1 win over Arsenal at the weekend or believed that Wigan would beat Manchester City in the FA Cup final last year. However, more often than not, with careful analysis and […]

Sony has announced the PS4 release date for its new video game console. The announcement was made at the Gamescon video conference in Cologne, Germany today. The PS4 release date is November 15 in North America, and November 29 in Europe. The state-of-the-art PlayStation 4 video game system will have FIFA 14 available at launch. […]

PES 2014 will be launched on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on September 20, 2013. Following EA's announcement yesterday at the video game conference Gamescon where a new gameday trailer and demo date was released for FIFA 14, Konami today revealed that the PES 2014 demo will be available on the PlayStation 3 […]

EA Sports have made several announcements today at the Gamescon video game show in Germany, which includes the demo release date for FIFA 14, a brand-new FIFA 14 gameplay trailer and news about the game being made available free in Europe. Here's the latest news: 1. The demo for FIFA 14 will be available for […]

Watch the brand-new FIFA 14 gameplay trailer, which was just released today at Gamescon — the massive video game show in Germany. The FIFA 14 trailer features plenty of reasons to get you excited for the launch of the new game, which will be available in the United States on September 24 and in Europe on […]