World Soccer Talk

It's not quite Judge Judy, but the Premier League news cycle today moves into a courtroom drama where you have Anton Ferdinand claiming racial abuse aimed at him by John Terry in the infamous QPR-Chelsea game from last season. Hopefully the court case can be over and done with pretty quickly. The sooner we move […]

A move for Ajax centre-back Jan Vertonghen has been agreed with Tottenham Hotspur, and the Ajax captain is now just a medical and signature away from officially being a Tottenham Hotspur footballer. The on-again off-again race to sign Vertonghen, who was Ajax captain, appears to be over, which is wonderful news for Tottenham supporters given […]

Today's confirmation that Park Ji-Sung has agreed a move from Manchester United to Queens Park Rangers is brilliant news for QPR fans, but very concerning news for United supporters. This is a footballer who often was Manchester United's trump card — the player that Sir Alex Ferguson used in big matches to either grab a […]

Fulham losing Pavel Pogrebnyak is definitely a blow, whether Fulham supporters will admit it or not. The Russian striker scored 6 goals for Fulham last season in just 12 league appearances. The Cottagers will miss that strike-rate this next season. For Reading, meanwhile, it's a big coup for manager Brian McDermott. Here are the rest of […]

So let the transfer rumors begin. Now that Robin van Persie has handed his Arsenal card in, the race is on to see who will secure the signature of one of the top strikers in the world. Just when you thought that the Premier League news cycle would go into a slumber for two weeks […]

Tottenham Hotspur today announced the signing of attacking midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson from Hoffenheim. The Icelandic creative midfielder, who played at Swansea last season on loan, was close to signing a permanent deal with Swansea and then Liverpool, but presumably Spurs was willing to offer more than Brendan Rodgers' current and previous clubs. The signing of […]

Starting today, we're going to bring you a daily post featuring the latest Premier League news stories. Even though Euro 2012 is over and the Premier League season doesn't start until mid-August, there's still plenty of news as you can see below. André Villas-Boas confirmed as new Tottenham manager — The Guardian Stuart Pearce has […]

Stuart Pearce has named his 18-man squad for the Team GB football squad to play in the 2012 Summer Olympics. After last week's news that David Beckham would not be included in the squad, the attention has switched to focus on the youngsters — and a few older footballers — who will be flying the […]

After Spain's incredible and well-deserved 4-0 win against Italy yesterday, here's the final set of Euro 2012 news headlines. I hope you've enjoyed the daily news updates, served up every morning since late May. I've enjoyed being part of your daily ritual. If you've enjoyed them, please let me know if you're interested in having […]

Spain vs Italy 2:45pm ET TV schedule Buy Spain and Italy shirts With the news that Vicente Del Bosque has decided to start three strikers for Spain today, it sounds like we'll have a match in store. Will Del Bosque's late decision to play three strikers have a detrimental impact on Spain since they're not used to playing that system, […]

Euro 2012 has flown by so quickly, with so much quality on display except for a few quarter-finals that dragged on. Nevertheless, we're now here at the final. And the breaking news is that Vicente Del Bosque is going to name three strikers to start for Spain. We may now be in for a very […]

The news from UEFA's Michel Platini this morning is that the Euro 2020 tournament could be played across the European continent instead of within a host country. With Europe being such a relatively small continent and budget airfare being so inexpensive for fans to follow their team, I love the idea — which is rare […]

Southampton Football Club has unveiled their new home and away shirts for the 2012-13 season, in a season where we'll see the Saints back in the top flight. Unfortunately, I hate Southampton's new home shirt with a passion. Reason being is that Southampton (and shirt makers Umbro) have completely changed the home shirt design, so […]

During this brief respite before the final match of Euro 2012 that kicks off on Sunday, it's perfect timing to watch all 84 goals scored so far from Euro 2012. Seventy two of them have been scored during regulation time, while there are 12 from penalty kick shootouts. There have been some wonderful goals scored […]

West Ham United has unveiled their home shirt for the 2012-13 season. Just like Aston Villa, West Ham United's shirt is designed and manufactured by Italian kit designer Macron. In the case of West Ham United's home shirt, I think it looks classy. I especially like the new collar design, which looks very trendy. According […]