World Soccer Talk

West Bromwich Albion defender Jonas Olsson is close to sealing a deal to Queens Park Rangers, but the initial bid of £5 million has been turned down by Steve Clarke's club. The gifted Swedish footballer is supposedly keen on a move to London to be closer to his family, so a deal for QPR could […]

The Guardian's Barney Ronay has penned a piece tonight about how Michu looks like the striker Fernando Torres might have become. The way the Swansea striker clinically finished his chance on Wednesday night is reminiscent of a Torres in his prime, but to be fair to Torres, the former Liverpool striker is not the same […]

After yesterday's spectacularly entertaining match between Bradford City and Aston Villa where the Bantams won the first leg 3-1, today's attention turns to Stamford Bridge where Chelsea plays Swansea City in the other semi-final first leg. In injury news, both John Terry and Petr Cech won't be playing for Chelsea today. Demba Ba is eligible […]

Arsenal is facing a lot of criticism and scorn today regarding their prices for this weekend's match against Manchester City with some home tickets priced up to £126. A third of away tickets available to Manchester City (priced at £62) have been sent back in a message of protest from City supporters. It's no wonder […]

Good news for Arsenal fans tonight as a deal to sign Theo Walcott to a new contract appears to be imminent, perhaps as early as next week. Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Theo Walcott edging towards new £25m deal with Arsenal — The Guardian Manchester City send almost third of ticket allocation back […]

Despite Aston Villa's disappointing Premier League season thus far, the club is just two games away from being in a Wembley final against the winner of Chelsea-Swansea. But first, Villa has to travel to Valley Parade where they play today in the first leg of the League Cup at 2:45pm ET (live on beIN SPORT). […]

A leaked photo of Manchester City's new home shirt for the 2013-14 season has been leaked on the Internet. The photo (pictured above) shows the brand-new Nike design. It's the first from Nike, who are taking over from Umbro at the end of this season. The sky blue shirt features a white rounded collar with […]

You've got to love Stoke City football club. Eighteen of their players are playing Fantasy Premier League in their own private league. Each of the teams reveal some interesting insights into each player. Peter Crouch has Begovic and Shawcross in the back with Robin van Persie up top. Crouchie scored a whopping 73 points last […]

The referee for Sunday's Premier League clash between Manchester United and Liverpool will be one Howard Webb, one of the better referees in the division. In such a high profile match, the referee is bound to come under some immense pressure. Hopefully Webb will be able to have one of his games where the focus […]

League Two side Cheltenham Town face Everton tonight in the last FA Cup match of the weekend. The game will be beamed live on television across the world from Whaddon Road, the quaint ground on the edge of the Cotswolds in one of the most beautiful parts of England. The winner of this match will […]

It's been a busy morning for transfer news as Sky Sports are reporting that Chelsea is close to signing a new midfielder named Taison from FC Metalist. Meanwhile, West Ham have signed a Brazilian on loan, while Sunderland has signed a French midfielder. All of the news is below. Here are today's Premier League news […]

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has come out in defense of star striker Luis Suarez saying that it's not the job of the Uruguayan "to own up" to whether he handled the ball or not despite it being vividly clear that the footballer purposely handled the ball to help him knock Mansfield Town out of the […]

Luis Suarez has done it again. With the FA Cup match at 1-0 to Liverpool against Mansfield, and the Stags edging closer to causing a shock draw, the Uruguayan and Liverpool striker scored Liverpool's second goal Sunday. However, it was blatantly obvious that Luis Suarez handled the ball by batting it down after the Mansfield goalkeeper […]

Mansfield Town, a club in the fifth tier of English football, displayed a lot of class this weekend when they decided to take 96 seats at their ground in Nottinghamshire and set them aside as a tribute to the 96 people who died as a cause of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. Mansfield plays Liverpool tomorrow […]

Footballers from Manchester United and Liverpool star in a new commercial from Chevrolet, the US car maker who is a sponsor of both American-owned football clubs. In the bizarre video, footballers such as Ryan Giggs, Jordan Henderson, Rio Ferdinand, Joe Allen, Paul Scholes, Jonjo Shelvey, Robin van Persie and Glen Johnson star. I think we […]