World Soccer Talk

Cardiff City are the current favourites to get promoted to the Premier League at the end of the season but Crystal Palace, Middlesbrough, Hull and Leicester all stand a great chance of pulling off promotion into the big time.

Bayern Munich are the overwhelming favourites to win the Bundesliga this season with current champions Borussia Dortmund way back in the betting market for the league title.

Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Mohamed Al Fayed ready to sue Premier League over fair play plan — The Mail Tottenham and Arsenal now battling mediocrity as well as each other — The Guardian Mark Hughes goes into 'El Sackico' praying for Queen's Park Rangers to click — The Independent Lucas Leiva is back […]

The list of players that Arsene Wenger had a chance to sign over the years has included Cristiano Ronaldo and Didier Drogba, as well as many more. But another footballer that Arsenal had a chance to sign was a 16-year-old Zlatan Ibrahimovic who left the club because the Swede refused to play in a trial. […]

The English Football Association has released a very unique set of highlights for the Sweden versus England match, which feature match highlights filmed by a pitchside camera. The unusual effect harkens back to football film highlights from the early 1900's (such as this one) — when any footage recorded was from pitchside. Watch all four of […]

A big blow for Tottenham Hotspur this week after Mousa Dembele has been ruled out of this Saturday's massive North London derby. Instead of receiving surgery to fix his hip injury, Tottenham Hotspur resorted to alternative options, but it's not working out as well as anticipated. Dembele is the sort of player who makes a […]

According to British tabloids, Manchester City may make a January bid for Liverpool striker Luis Suarez. This is one story that I'd like to see come true, but I have a strong suspicion that it's complete BS. Reason being is what would Manchester City want with another striker? Maybe one to replace Mario Balotelli, yes? […]

Gifted Manchester City left fullback Aleksandar Kolarov has admitted that nobody knows who to mark in the Manchester City defensive system. And judging by the team's performances, especially in the UEFA Champions League, he's correct. Roberto Mancini has plenty of work to do in preparation for next week's plum tie against Real Madrid at Etihad […]

Fox Sports’ co-president Eric Shanks says that losing the Premier League TV rights in the United States to NBC (beginning with the 2013-14 season) is "a bummer." The executive says that FOX Soccer will not undergo a rebranding (there have been many rumors that FOX Soccer would become FOX Sports 2 or 3. That's all […]

Here are the Premier League news headlines: Mark Clattenburg left off Premier League list for third straight week — The Mail Steven Gerrard is cleared to win his 100th cap against Sweden — BBC Sport Premier League continues to maximise TV revenue on a global scale — The Guardian John Terry to be sidelined for […]

Sitting in 13th position in the Premier League, Liverpool's season so far has been one of impressive draws against Chelsea and Manchester City, two league wins against Reading and Norwich, and a mixed bag of other results. If we haven't realized it already, this is not your father's Liverpool. This is a once giant football […]

For the neutral, yesterday's 3-3 draw between Arsenal and Fulham was a pulsating match that ebbed and flowed. For Arsenal fans, it's another lost opportunity to grab three points. And for Arsene Wenger and the Gunners, it adds up to their worst-ever Premier League start. To be fair, Fulham deserved the point yesterday. After the […]

In another example of Roberto Di Matteo's maturity and growth as a football manager, the Chelsea manager has said that "I don't think anybody's guaranteed a starting place [on the Chelsea team]. They all have to work and be fighting for their place in the team." While that may not seem that newsworthy, I believe it […]

Chelsea is on the verge of signing Fluminense full-back named Wallace according to The Independent newspaper. The gifted right back could be adequate cover for Branislav Ivanovic. As of press time, we're not able to confirm nor deny whether Wallace is any relation to the character Wallace from Wallace & Gromit. Here are today's Premier […]

After a brilliant day of UEFA Champions League matches yesterday, I'm looking forward to three intriguing Europa League matches with Anzhi against Liverpool (early kick-off, Noon ET) followed by Tottenham Hotspur versus Maribor and lastly Bruges against Newcastle United. Liverpool team news: Jones, Wisdom, Carragher, Coates, Flanagan, Shelvey, Henderson, Coady, Downing, Cole, Morgan. For viewers […]