One thing I've always lamented since starting to follow soccer seriously is the lack of statistics that are readily available to the average fan. Other sports (I think of American baseball and football for examples) tend to have large volumes of statistics available to fuel fan debates about who really is the most dominant team, […]

What a day. For Liverpool, who are now just two points behind Chelsea for third place in the Premiership, although Chelsea have two games in hand, today couldn't be any better. Led by Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard, who have been carrying the team all year, the Reds strolled to a 3-0 win over Newcastle. […]

Only one fixture is left to decide in the Round of 16. Inter Milan trail by 2 goals after being defeated at Anfield in the first leg. However, Liverpool could be without a vital component of their midfield for the second-leg of their Champions League tie away to Inter next Tuesday as Javier Mascherano appears […]

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The final whistle has just blown and Barnsley has achieved one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup memory by defeating Chelsea 1-0 at Oakwell. In the previous round, Barnsley beat Liverpool. The Yorkshire club are now heading to Wembley to compete in the FA Cup semi-final. What an amazing achievement for the side […]

Claudio Lopez, the Argentine striker who played in every match of his nation's 1998 and 2002 World Cup campaigns has agreed to terms with the Kansas City Wizards and is ready to be unveiled after he passes a fitness test/physical and gets his immigration related paperwork in order. As we first broke two weeks ago, […]

Chat live this weekend with EPL Talk readers from around the world as we take in the FA Cup and Premier League matches. Join us at http://epltalk.com/chat at any of the following times: Saturday, March 8 Manchester United v Portsmouth, 7:45am ET/12:45pm GMT, FA Cup Liverpool v Newcastle, 10am ET/3pm GMT, Premier League Blackburn v […]

I apologise for the blackout due to technical difficulties with our service provider, the Football Talk network was off internet-waves the last 4 days. I would also like to send a Get Well Soon to The Gaffer @ EPL Talk who is still in hospital. Chris all of us at Serie A Talk wish you […]

In many ways it was a wild finish to the Round of 16 and it's not done yet! We still have the second leg of the Liverpool – Internazionale tie on Tuesday, March 11th. FC Schalke 04 overcame some poor form of recent days to pull off a thrilling shootout win over 2004 winners FC […]

Listening to The Guardian's Football Weekly Podcast, especially contributor Sean Ingle, you'd think that every grown Brit who was a football fan bets on matches week-in, week-out. Obviously that isn't the case, but how prevalent is betting on matches? Remarkably, I've never once bet on a Premier League match. When I grew up in the […]

Editor's note: Today's guest column is written by Tokyo Toffeeman regarding the current state of Premier League TV coverage in Japan. Enjoy. By Tokyo Toffeeman I had to laugh a few weeks ago when listening online to a Radio Five Live discussion on the proposed 39th game issue. The presenter casually commented "So you'd have […]

It's been a while since the last episode of the EPL Talk Podcast. Reason being I'm still in the hospital but hope to return home early next week. So while I recover to full health, here's the latest episode which features two exclusive interviews. The first is with Englishman Paul Gardner who discusses how he […]

If someone had told me a year ago that Mathieu Flamini would completely shut down Kaka in two legs of a CL knockout round I would have been amazed that he would be even included in the lineup for the matches. Flamini has been defying the odds all season as he has proven himself an […]

There have been two new episodes of the popular "I'm on Setanta Sports" since I last had a chance to post. Both my wife and father are recovering from their surgeries so I hope I can return to posting on a more regular basis. For now, enjoy the vids!

No doubt exists in the minds of many that the English Premier League is the best league in the world and the England National Team is one of the best international teams in the world. One BBC Five Live commentator in fact recently argued England has the third best pool of talent on the planet […]