This week's episode of Friday Flashback Videos features a very rare video of a Manchester City from 1968 against the Atlanta Chiefs played at Atlanta's Fulton-County Stadium, home to the baseball team the Atlanta Braves. The friendly match was played just a few weeks after Manchester City had won the league championship under manager Malcolm […]

La Liga officially begins the second half of its season this weekend, and FC Barcelona has continued its stellar form with a staggering fifty-two points out of a possible fifty-seven points, a Spanish record for the opening half of any campaign. Despite this extended run of breathtaking football, Barça only has a four point lead […]

FA Cup third round replays and the built-up to the next round of English Premier League action was overshadowed this week by the shock transfer of Darren Bent, who – two days after handing in his transfer request at Sunderland – became the newest member of Aston Villa Football Club. The AVFC club record acquisition […]

Ah the rumor mill. Such a crazy addictive hobby. And it's always a load of rubbish. The thing that will stir it up more than anything is a massive purchase. Due to the particularities of January and the desperation of clubs, there tend to be more ridiculous purchases than during the summer. This winter we […]

Arsenal today announced that the club will be touring the United States for a preseason tour in the future. Whether it'll be this summer or a future summer, we'll have to wait and see. "The question is when, not if [Arsenal will tour the United States on a preseason tour]," said Arsenal Chief Commercial Officer […]

Earlier this offseason, I posted a poll and question about what EPL teams you would like to see do a tour of the United States. Since then we have seen Barcelona confirm a three-stop tour of the U.S., where they will be playing both Manchester United (DC) and AC Milan (Miami). But with as large […]

In what has to be one of the strangest stories so far to come out of the 2010-11 Premier League season, there were rumors abound going into West Ham United’s match with Arsenal that even a win was not likely to save Manager Avram Grant’s job. That is not the odd bit of the story […]

When I wrote about Juan Pablo Angel being forced out of the New York Red Bulls, it was a bit of a shattered dream seeing him not pairing up top with Thierry Henry and Rafa Marquez anchoring the back of the midfield to help with distribution to these two. Obviously with the improvements of RBNY […]

Eighty four years ago, the BBC brought forth onto Britain a new and revolutionary way to experience football. On January 22nd, 1927 a football fixture with live commentary was broadcasted for the very first time. The honors of this inaugural and groundbreaking event were bestowed upon Arsenal who hosted Sheffield United in a Division One […]

13 EPL matches this week, plus we find out who will meet at Wembley for the League Cup, before the league breaks for the FA Cup Round-of-32. If you get any deja vu, all of these reverse fixtures were played just 3 weeks ago on the 28th/29th of December. So last week I wrote that […]

The King is back. Long live the King. Yes, Eric Cantona, one of the greatest legends of the Premier League, has returned to the world of football after it was announced today that he'll be the director of football, achh I mean soccer, at The New York Cosmos. It's a safe bet that the Cosmos […]

The MLS drafts are finally over. After over a month of players being picked, picks being declined, picks being traded, and picks being digested, there will be no more MLS drafts until the Montreal Expansion Draft at the end of this year. To recap, we've seen: The Vancouver and Portland Expansion draft, where teams had […]

I find Tottenham's desire to occupy the Olympic Stadium in East London quite fascinating. The traditionalist in me says that Spurs should stay at White Hart Lane. The ground has the best atmosphere in the Premier League and over the course of the season it certainly wins them points and helps spur them on to […]

Last week's SuperDraft went exactly as planned, right? Not exactly, according to everybody who was surprised Omar Salgaso went first, and judging by the reaction from the coverage, that means everybody outside of Vancouver. On this edition of the Major League Soccer Talk podcast, Kevin McCauley joins me to talk about the wisdom of selecting […]

Liverpool have accepted a bid from Hoffenheim for striker Ryan Babel. "The Bundesliga Club have now been given permission to discuss personal terms with the player, who has travelled to Germany," said a statement from Liverpool FC. Bild, the German newspaper, quoted Hoffenheim's main financial backer, software billionaire Dietmar Hopp, as saying that Hoffenheim was in […]