A news flash on the Newcastle United homepage tipped me off to this. It is official, Kevin Keegan is returning to Newcastle United as manager. It will be Kevin's third stint at St. James' Park. He arrived as a player in 1982 and led the team back to the top-flight before hanging up his boots […]

Kevin Keegan, the England legend and former Liverpool striker, today has been named manager of Newcastle United for the second time in his career. As much as it pains me to say, I believe Newcastle United has made the wrong decision. It's difficult for me to say this because Keegan was my childhood hero. He […]

The Special One has returned with a new video. His first one of 2008 for the hit new show, "I'm On Setanta Sports." Fantastic.

I must admit despite the speculation I was mildly surprised by the news Carlos Ruiz has returned to the LA Galaxy. I understand that the Galaxy have Joe Cannon and Clint Mathis both off the books and that the three "DPs" (David Beckham, Carlos Ruiz and Landon Donovan) only count 400k each towards the approximately […]

A big day of FA Cup action and the team I've been following for this round, League Two strugglers Bury, pulled off a big upset by knocking out Championship side Norwich City with a 2-1 win in their 3rd round replay at Gigg Lane. The win sets up a fourth round match away at Southampton […]

Dimitar Berbatov isn't heading to Manchester United. At least, not yet. But that hasn't stopped Subside Sports having a little bit of fun by selling Berbatov shirts. You can have one for $92. Order yours today. Thanks to Charles Hurley for the tip.

Americans don't need any more bad publicity. The economy is going into a recession. The U.S. national team is still reeling after their pitiful performance in their last major competition, and the American lads at Fulham, despite playing well individually, are staring into the face of relegation. Now Tom Hicks has put his foot in […]

For the first time, GolTV has externally released ratings numbers for one of its televised matches, and the numbers are quite impressive. despite the game itself being pretty boring compared to previous El Classicos. According to Mediaweek, the December 23rd match between Barcelona and Real Madrid had 502,000 viewers. In comparison, Fox Soccer Channel typically […]

Finally, after a protracted, drawn out saga that stretched over the past couple of months, I'm glad to see that justice has been served and Watford midfielder Al Bangura will be allowed to remain in the UK permanently. Bangura won his appeal of an original ruling by the Home Office that was going to deport […]

I've done some research on the other countries in England's World Cup qualifying group and even though the beginning of qualifying is months away, I wanted to come out with a guide/primer/preview of sorts of England's competition in Group 6 while the topic was still fresh in people's minds: 1. Belarus—Currently coached by former East […]

The England national team's fixture list for World Cup 2010 qualifying has just been released, and I think it sets up pretty nicely for new manager Fabio Capello. The meeting to hash out the exact details of the schedule took a reported eight hours in Zagreb, Croatia. It'll be important for the Three Lions to […]

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has today admitted he had talks with Jurgen Klinsmann to take over from Rafa Benitez, which will — to me — almost guarantee Rafa's departure in the coming weeks. Reason being is that Benitez now knows 100% that his job was in jeopardy. If Hicks told the press before Benitez about […]

For me, the best thing to happen to exiled followers of English soccer in the past 10 years has been the Internet. The highlight of which is the ginormous number of articles that the traditional British newspapers publish daily on the topic of the Premier League. Whether you're looking for breaking news stories, gossip, humor, […]

Our friend Steven Goff of the Washington Post is reporting late Sunday eastern time that Eddie Johnson has left the US National Team camp at the Home Depot Center and is en route to Craven Cottage to negotiate a contract with Fulham. Johnson whose future we debated last week on the American Soccer Show needs […]

We've been getting a lot of comments here on EPL Talk recently and it's great to hear from the readers. So let's keep it going. Who do you think is going to end the season in fourth place and snatch the Champions League spot that goes with it? After this weekend's games, Liverpool, Everton, Manchester […]