Brown and Robinson Retire From England Squad Fabio Capello has lost two more potential squad members as Blackburn keeper Paul Robinson and Manchester United defender Wes Brown declined their respective call ups to the England squad for England's upcoming friendly against Hungary. Robinson and Brown, both 30, narrowly missed out on the 23-man squad to […]

After Sunday's Community Shield match between Chelsea and Manchester United, I had a chance to watch the highlights of the game with the Digital Video Recorder (DVR) that I use to record games. I got to see Chicharito's goal again that he scored with his face. It's not something you get to see very often. After […]

In the first of four parts, the EPL Talk team returns from their post-World Cup hiatus just in time for the 2010-11 English Premier League Season. Richard Farley, Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer, in the first quarter-hour of a recording from Sunday night, talk about some of the summer's overarching issues – the sale of […]

The Week 19 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 19 145 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 92,650 1 15,378 15,194 121 2007 25,407 -72.58% 5 15,897 3.37% 15,449 1.68% 122 2008 18,584 -26.85% 6 16,467 3.59% 17,334 12.20% 128 2009 16,846 […]

This match was supposed to be about the four to five Designated Players that was going to perform on the field at Toyota Park on Sunday Night. The big names of world football coming together and strutting their stuff all match long as the spotlights were shinning bright. But while this was a fantastic scoreless […]

Joachim Loew has announced his squad for Germany's upcoming friendly against Denmark. Loew has chosen to rest the majority of his World Cup stars and call up younger players to the squad who will be given the chance to impress and begin to force their way into the German national team on a more regular […]

Liverpool's Philipp Degen has been deemed surplus to requirements at Anfield and has sealed a season-long loan move to Stuttgart in the Bundesliga. Degen, aged 27, certainly has a lot to do to reignite his career. Degen made a good impression during a three-year period with Borussia Dortmund. He earned national team call-ups and built […]

Monday, August 9th 8:00PM EDT – 5:00PM PDT Guests: Kartik Krishnaiyer Communications officer of the NASL, Dave Denholm & Eric Altshule of MLS Talk Previews USA Vs Brazil NASL Segment Re-Capping Red Bulls Away Match At Chicago Fire Thursday, August 12th 8:00PM EDT – 5:00PM PDT Re-Capping USA Vs Brazil Re-Capping Red Bulls Home Match […]

The Premier League season officially kicked off on Sunday with Manchester United grabbing the first available piece of silverware on offer by beating Chelsea 3-1 at Wembley in front of large audience. The match opened with a frenetic pace as both sides saw early chances come and go with no end result. Paul Scholes enjoyed […]

FA Charity Shield

Perennial Premier League powerhouses Chelsea and Manchester United meet at Wembley in the annual curtain raiser to the new season. Chelsea will be looking to repeat their success of last season's Shield, when they defeated United on penalties. Chelsea's domestic double of Premier League and F.A Cup meant that United's place in the Community Shield […]

Manager Robin Dutt, whose only real previous managerial experience is with lowly side Stuttgart Kickers, has so far been impressive as a Bundesliga manager with Freiburg. While he hasn't pulled off any miracles, it certainly is a commedable achievement keeping Freiburg afloat in the Bundesliga. This season the task will be the same, and he […]

England boss Fabio Capello has named his 23 man squad that will face Hungary on Wednesday at Wembley, England's first match since their defeat at the hands of Germany in the World Cup. In the squad, Capello has shuffled fourteen players from the England team who featured and ultimately underwhelmed this summer at the World […]

Germany team-mates Thomas Mueller and Miroslav Klose got on the scoresheet to dismiss Schalke and claim an early piece of silverware by way of the German Super Cup. Thomas Mueller's reputation continues to grow after breaking in the Bayern Munich first-team late last season. After impressive performances in the Champions League particularly, Mueller forced himself […]

The next Premier League season doesn't begin until Saturday, August 14 but as soon as the first ball is kicked in the Community Shield, the English top flight football calendar officially opens. Tomorrow we'll see Manchester United compete against Chelsea (10am ET, Fox Soccer Channel) to see who will win the Community Shield silverware. Historically […]