While Champions League is usually the topic of conversation on the mid-week podcasts, this week, we have more important issues to talk about. On this edition of the EPL Talk Podcast, myself, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna discussion Wayne Rooney and Roy Hodgson before looking forward to the weekend's action.

Last week, the United States dropped out of contention to host the 2018 World Cup, deciding instead to concentrate its efforts on beating out Australia, Qatar, Japan and South Korea for 2022. This ensures that Europe will host in 2018 and emboldens England’s chances. Also vying for 2018 are Russia, a joint Belgium/Netherlands entry and an […]

After an astonishing performance in Milan, there surely can't be any doubt that the answer is a categorical yes. Who else is playing as well? Who else is having such a major impact? Who else has scored such a brilliant hat-trick on such a stage? Had such a magnificent, irresistible hat-trick being scored by someone […]

While the lot of the Internet waxes poetic on the Wayne Rooney saga from various corners of the globe, I've remained oddly quiet on a matter concerning the club I support and a player I've held in incredibly high regard for some time. Rooney's declaration of desire this past week hit me in that kind […]

Regarding Roy Hodgson and the job he's done at Liverpool thus far, let's get all of the criticisms out on the table. In the past few weeks, I've heard complaints that "small club" managers, such as Hodgson from Fulham, don't do well at "big clubs," Hodgson is hopeless tactically, he hasn't won any major trophies, the players he's signed […]

While AC Milan and Roma were both humiliated in their Champions League matches yesterday, Inter Milan put on a good show for any people who watched the European champions. Both sides were equal on points at the top of the group, but with Inter's win, the nerazzurri go top of Group A. Twente and Werder […]

On Thursday morning at 10am UK time, Manchester United chief executive David Gill will sit down with Sir Alex Ferguson and will discuss what they plan on doing with Wayne Rooney. Unless the striker has a change of heart at the last minute, which is extremely doubtful, Rooney will presumably either be sold in the […]

Tottenham went to the San Siro today, and were trounced. The scoreline may read 4-3, but Spurs were never in it, three highly difficult individual goals, and three very difficult finishes against a team that had obviously stopped caring gave the end result some respectability. (The British media will go on and on about how […]

The Bundesliga's other two Champions League representatives took to the field tonight after Bayern Munich's 3-2 win over Cluj yesterday. Schalke hosted Israeli champions Hapoel Tel Aviv, and Werder Bremen travelled to Holland to take on Twente. Schalke 04 3 – 1 Hapoel Tel-Aviv Felix Magath's side have had an awful start to the Bundesliga […]

It was expected that up to 15,000 Spurs fans would make the trip over to Milan for the glamour tie of Tottenham’s Champions League campaign. Well after a disastrous first half that saw the current tournament holders Inter Milan blast four goals past a beleaguered Spurs, many would have been forgiven for thinking they had […]

In the past few weeks, you've probably read several of our articles and previews about the upcoming release of Football Manager 2011, the strategy football game. Well, the good news is that the game will be out in the stores from November 5th in Europe (U.S. release is scheduled before Christmas). Even better news is that you […]

Bayern Munich have all but secured their passage into the round of sixteen last night with a rather fortunate 3-2 win over Romanian side CFR Cluj. Two own goals and a Mario Gomez strike were just enough for Bayern Munich to pick up another three points, and the win, although slightly nervy, was more important […]

Wayne Rooney today released an official statement confirming his desire to leave Manchester United, as well as sharing his thoughts on what Sir Alex Ferguson said in his press conference yesterday. Here's Rooney's statement in full: "I met with David Gill last week and he did not give me any of the assurances I was […]

Football press conferences are usually quite predictable affairs with the manager trotting out the usual clichés and obfuscation in response to the same old questions from the press. They are rarely places to deploy an extended metaphor but someone must have forgotten to tell Rafa Benitez because his latest comments about his time at Liverpool […]

Yesterday was a bad day for Serie A in the Champions League. Roma lost 3-1 at home to FC Basel to fall into last place in Group E, but level on points with Basel and Cluj. But the big story of the night was AC Milan's first trip back to the Bernabeu since their shock […]