Lennon's cross arcs over the box. It hones in on Steven Gerrard who waits just outside the crowd. He jumps, coils his neck and smashes the ball toward goal. His header flies down into the net. 2-0 to England. I'm an American, but I still get chills when Gerrard scores for his country. His header […]

The Spanish national team has long been forgotten in the midst of the European achievements of clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona. Los Galacticos and the Catalan club have long dominated the Spanish football scene not to mention their heavy presence in European club competitions. While Barca won the Champions League twice the past four years […]

The shock transfer ban recently imposed on Chelsea for their “inducing” of young French player Gael Kakuta has again raised the argument of English clubs scouting for and developing too many foreign players within their youth systems. Why? It’s a simple numbers game. Football is a global sport, so it would make very little […]

In partnership with Russian Football Now, EPL Talk presents the third episode of RNF's podcast. Russia’s Mens National team made it through the international break unscathed. Now the stage is set for October 10th’s battle with Germany in Moscow. On the third episode of Russian Football Now’s podcast, hosts Chris Riordan and Richard Farley discuss […]

So, David Beckham flew all the way from Los Angeles to London so he could sit on the bench for the friendly against Slovakia and play 10 minutes of garbage time once England had a four goal lead against Croatia. He got a great view of how Shaun Wright Phillips did well against Slovakia and […]

Our postgame podcast will be taped in a few hours. Guests will be Richard Farley of Inside the Six and World Soccer Reader, along with Jamie Trecker of FOX Sports. What I plan to address on the pod. Officiating at Azteca. Honduras lost on a pk. Bob Bradley's job performance: I rate him highly given […]

What a difference two years make. In November, 2007, England succumbed to Croatia at Wembley by a scoreline of 2-3 and thus surrendered their qualifying for Euro 2008. Cue the images of a fumbling Steve McClaren and an England team with so little confidence. Croatia, meanwhile, looked like world beaters. Yesterday, it was a different […]

Paul Caliguri had the shot heard round the world on this pitch, but tonight, Rico Clark had the shot that saved the US. With their backs against the wall the US responded after a poor first half. In the second half tonight, the United States Men’s National Team showed the heart of a champion and […]

Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 — Netherlands 1: 0 Scotland today at Hampden Park (here's the minute-by-minute report). As George Burley said, Scotland deserved at least something from the match at home in which they threatened the woodwork serially. The difficult loss ends Scotland's chance of qualifying for South Africa's pageant next summer. I saw Wesley […]

I'm going to say it right now. That was the worst match I have seen these bunch of players perform on the road against an opponent that should've been done and dusted at the blow of the whistle to start the first half. How was it possible for this group that looked so strong at […]

Australia's 5 time FIWC champion, Stephen Coorey, was lucky enough to play the latest Fifa10 build at EA headquarters today. Here are his impressions of the new game...

Wales 1 – 3 Russia World Cup Qualifier 2010, Group #4 Millennium Stadium, Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 7.45pm The build up to Wales’s most recent and irrelevant World Cup qualifying group game was punctuated by the rather petulant and juvenile civil war of criticism levied by legend Welsh players towards the ineptitude of the current national […]

In 2005, Michael Shields was convicted by a Bulgarian court for the attempted murder of a barman after Liverpool's Champions League victory in Istanbul. Between a jail in Bulgaria and Thorn Cross prison in Chesire, England, Shields, now 22, has spent the last four years behind bars. But, today, his 15 year sentance has been […]

Bob Bradley has far too many critics. Some people who believe the US is a big time program and should be led by the likes of Guus Hiddink, just do not get the realities of dysfunctional US Soccer Federation who blew the hiring of Jurgen Klinsmann for the simple fact that they are control freaks […]

In the latest browser wars, the browser usage statistics show that Firefox has almost 50% of the market share. Other than how easier it is to use and how fast it is, one of the reasons web users love Firefox is because of their massive library of add-ons. So since we're all soccer fans, I […]