The United States got a rude welcome to 2009 this morning. A day after agreeing to a friendly with Sweden to conclude the traditional January camp, Bob Bradley’s men were handed an opening date of qualifying versus Mexico at home. The United States has not lost at home to Mexico in qualifying since 1972 but […]

The United States got a rude welcome to 2009 this morning. A day after agreeing to a friendly with Sweden to conclude the traditional January camp, Bob Bradley's men were handed an opening date of qualifying versus Mexico at home. The United States has not lost at home to Mexico in qualifying since 1972 but […]

When was the last time Arsenal looked so pathetic? Today, they were defeated 3-0 away against Manchester City in a game where it could have easily been 4-0 or 5-0 to the blue half of Manchester. I've never seen so many poor passes from Arsenal in one game. Their first half performance was dire. Man […]

Here's a bit of fun for a Saturday morning. The Mackem Mover appeared on Soccer AM this morning and showed off his dance moves (see video below). The bloke named Steve first came to fame when TV cameras caught him dancing in the crowd during half-time against Newcastle United (watch here). Enjoy the video. [display_podcast]

The Tokyo Toffeeman has graciously agreed to host the EPL Talk Chat today. Join him and other fans online right now as they dissect the big matches including Chelsea versus Newcastle United, Liverpool against Fulham and Manchester City vs Arsenal.

Inter vs Juventus In the last eighteen head to head six have been won by Juventus with four won by Inter and the final eight have been draws making this a highly charged encounter. Internazionale are given the nod by bookies but that won't stand for anything come the final moments as Juventus have been known to finish off opponents in extra […]

The rumor’s flying around the soccer world are that William Gallas has been stripped of the Arsenal captaincy and dropped from the squad to play Manchester City tomorrow following the Frenchman's outspoken comments about his teammates this week. While away on international duty, Gallas told a French newspaper: "We are coming up against teams who […]

The main event on Saturday will be derby d'Italia between Inter Milan and visitors Juventus. Sunday's center stage should be highflying Lazio against a rejuventated Genoa, (thank you very much Mr. Milito) both losers match day twelve to Roma and Juventus respectively. Lazio vs. Genoa might just be chock'ful-of goals with the South American strikers Diego Milito (Genoa), Mauro Zarate (Lazio) as well […]

Throughout the season, the Premier League keeps track of which clubs have the best behaved fans as well as the worst behaved fans. Last year, Chelsea was voted the worst behaved fans especially because of the way they abused Avram Grant most of the season, but so far this season they've zoomed up the charts […]

With weeks of verbal gymnastics under their belts, Jose Mourinho and his Juventus counterpart Claudio Ranieri finally meet up on Saturday in the derby d'Italia. This derby is one of the most intense matches in Italy between two teams not from the same city and the derby gets it's name from the fact that up until the […]

On this episode of the EPL Talk Podcast, Johnathan Starling interviews Dan Gallardo, product manager of Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009. We discuss the new features on this year's game, the new means of downloading the game and some of our craziest moments while playing the game. At the end of the podcast, listen as a […]

Great second half goals for Kenny Cooper and Freddy Adu pace the United States. Both players showed their quality tonight and surely left an impression on Bob Bradley. But the real excitement was elsewhere in CONCACAF. Mexico's lack of composure, and unsporting play took a turn for the worse tonight as Carlos Vela deliberetely tried […]

I'm traveling on business this week but figured I'd throw open this open thread on game. I'll come back with some thoughts later and do want to mention Jamaica has an early goal against Canada and the announcement of that score in San Pedro Sula should open up the Mexico-Honduras match. UPDATE: Great second half […]

Football is littered with players whose careers have been curtailed before their time, sometimes through off field excesses, sometimes by the wear and tear of top level football, but Matt Jansen is certainly one of those players who certainly had more than a bit of bad luck push him to the periphery of the game. Today, Jansen […]

GolTV has acquired the U.S. TV rights to the 2009 European under-21 Championship, scheduled for June 15-29 in Sweden. The eight countries competing in the tournament will be England, Italy, Serbia, Germany, Finland, Belarus, Spain and Sweden. The draw for the tournament takes place on December 3rd. For connoiseurs of the beautiful game, the European […]