It's the first of March and although there is everything to be decided, you can smell it in the air. This could be the year United do what hasn't been accomplished by a British club since Celtic in 1967: winning the League, FA, and European Cups, in addition to the Premier League trophy. Yet as […]

Kasey Keller, Brad Friedel, Marcus Hahnemann and Tim Howard have become well know in the United States for their exploits playing football in England. The goalkeeping quartet has established the credentials of Americans in what many at home consider the top football league on the planet. (some at home consider it the only football league […]

On Friday, during my game previews, Sam wondered how Wigan could score? Today, Chelsea gave us an answer, complacency. For much of Wigan's trip to Stamford Bridge, it was Chelsea on the back foot. Completely against the run of play, John Terry put Chelsea ahead twenty-five minutes in. Before that, Chelsea saw Wigan have five […]

If there is a player that is as synonymous to Real Madrid as Raúl it is Guti. Now this idol plans to do what Madrid's all-time leading scorer insinuated earlier in the week. He, like Raúl has insinuated, that his last season at the Santiago Bernabéu will be in 2011. Guti, 32, is in his […]

Episode 4 of Special 1 TV is now available. This week's escapades include: Wayne Rooney gets benched again, Jose's secret plan to overcome Man United in the Champions League, The quest for a nickname for Guus Hiddink, Fergie and Voyeur have a war of words, Ronaldo has a new song, and Special 1 TV is […]

Win a free pair of customized Adidas Predator football boots courtesy of Adidas and EPL Talk. Here's how the contest will work: On www.miadidas.com fans can select from an assortment of performance footwear spanning soccer, running, basketball, and tennis as well as Originals footwear models. How many total shoe models are available on miadidas.com? Log […]

Aaron Maund is a versatile player whose freshman season at Notre Dame was outstanding. The Massachusetts native represented Trinidad and Tobago in the U-17 World Cup in 2007, but has opted to switch his national team to the US, and his request was approved by FIFA. Maund is a versatile player who can play comfortably […]

And my particular bugbear, this week, is bullshit-artists who try to over-complicate a perfectly simple game by waffling on interminably about formations and tactics; holding midfielders, players in the hole, galloping wing-backs blah, blah, blah snooze yawn in a bid to make out they're more clever than everyone else. There is, of course, a time […]

It would be a sane Premier League week if there wasn’t an outlandish Manchester City rumor, but where is the fun in that? This week’s circulation is a doozy. Manchester City reportedly are including Robinho in a cash plus player offer for Chelsea captain John Terry this summer. City would entice Terry by doubling his […]

When it comes to national team shirts, Italy's are one of the Top 5 in popularity and style. The Azzurri shirts for the 2009 Confederations Cup are out and all accounts are that they are a throwback to the shirts of the 1930s. Check it out: The 8th Confederations Cup will be held in South Africa […]

Cologne dominated much of the game at home against Arminia Bielefeld, but in the end, couldn’t break down the central-half pairing of Herzig and Andre Mijatovic with Dennis Eilhoff in goal. With over 60% of possession and 16 shots on goal by Cologne, it was down to the organization of the two central defenders to […]

Direct Download:MLS Talk#66, Jamie Trecker Jamie Trecker the senior soccer writer for Fox Sports.com joins us on the podcast to discuss the US National Team, Mexico's difficulties of late, MLS Expansion and USL's success in the CONCACAF Champions League. We also discuss his book which our friend Lou Bruno reviewed for EPL Talk in 2007.

Playing in a competitive match for the first time in months, the Puerto Rico Islanders looked disorganized and unsettled.This gave Honduran league leaders CD Marathon several first half opportunities due to a the Islanders losing their shape and not communicating well with one another. The Islanders had actually begun the game well behind Peter Villegas […]

Saturday 7:45 am Everton v West Bromwich Albion (Live Setanta Sports). Even with Everton's large injury list, West Brom just haven't shown any fight against top half of the table sides. Add the fact West Brom are away, and have shipped twelve in their last four, it's a recipe for everyone not Everton supporters to […]

What on earth is happening at Liverpool this week? There seems to some major leaking going on behind the scenes that seem to point to two camps eager to try and score points against each other. News has begun to circulate this morning that the chief executive, Rick Parry is to leave his position at Liverpool […]