httpv://youtu.be/9KgiPGAYQYk For some of us, this may be an easy answer. For others, it may be practically impossible to say. But what was the first English football match you remember watching on television? Living in Britain in the 1970s, football matches were hardly ever shown on television. The one match you could count on was […]

In the build-up to the 1998 World Cup held in France, a company named Merlin launched the Official England 1998 World Cup sticker collection. The quality of the stickers was equal to that of Panini, and Merlin issued quite a lot of other football related stickers during their time. In this particular collection, I've selected […]

The APL is back from a short break and is just in time to report another good weekend for the little guys as gameweek 21 saw big scores for both Norwich and Blackburn. It isn’t often that we see Blackburn among the week’s biggest winners, but their 3-1 win over Fulham earned them a score […]

Over the last month or so a noticeable change has become patently obvious when watching Manchester City play. Ever since their unfortunate defeat to Chelsea, where by all accounts they were terrific in the first half of that game, City to my mind have begun to play with fear, which in turn has culminated in […]

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I went through a stack of Panini stickers from the 1990 World Cup today, and picked out eight different stickers that I thought you would be interested in. Click on the above photo for a larger photo. A lot can change in 22 years. Kasey Keller went from the goalkeeper with a mullet to a […]

Cheers and Jeers is a weekly column on EPL Talk, summing up the best and worst of the previous Premier League weekend. Regular columnist Matt Hackenmiller is on assignment right now attending to his newborn child, so I thought I'd step in and give my own opinions. Feel free to debate me in the comments […]

“Money doesn’t talk, it swears” – Bob Dylan The Italian Serie A started the season with newly promoted Atalanta at the foot of the table, after the club faced a points deduction due to match-fixing in Italian Serie B. I was disappointed to learn that the player at the centre of the controversy was Atalanta […]

Wolverhampton Wanderers travel to a big North London club with European ambitions; are given a snowballs chance in Hell of taking anything from the game, defend resolutely and defy their long odds and escape back up the M6 with a precious point after a 1-1 draw. . . I can’t help feeling we’ve seen this […]

Sunday's match between Swansea and Arsenal was an eyeopening account that laid bare the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, especially the gulf in talent and confidence between Swansea's Premier League footballers and the poor confidence and technical inefficiencies of some of Arsenal's veteran players. Matched up against each other on the same pitch, it was […]

Liverpool and Chelsea are both planning summer tours to the United States to compete in preseason friendlies, which may include Liverpool playing AS Roma at Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park baseball stadium, says The Boston Globe. The newspaper reports that in addition to Liverpool possibly playing Roma at Fenway Park, that other preseason friendlies which […]

I'm nearing the end of looking through my box of English football collectibles that I found in my garage. I have one or two more items I'll be sharing with you in the next 48 hours, but in the meantime, I wanted to share with you something different that I found. It's a collection of […]

If there was ever an award for a manager who can pick a bargain, look no further than a certain David Moyes. Having to overcome financial obligations in the transfer market year after year, Everton have always been widely seen by many as a top ten Premier League club, and one who has performed admirably […]

For season after season Wigan Athletic has overcome the difficulties of remaining in top flight English football. The success of this fairytale story has heavily relied upon chairman Dave Whelan. The Wigan chairman has expressed an interest in stepping down at the age of 75 and handing the reins to grandson David. Needless to say […]

As the dust settles on the 2012 MLS SuperDraft, I thought it would be a good time to catch up with the Portland Timbers and their offseason moves so far in this, their true first offseason as a Major League Soccer franchise. Way back at the end of their inaugural campaign where the team narrowly […]