It's that time of the year when the Fantasy Premier League is open for you to join. Unlike other fantasy football games, this one is free and EPL Talk even chips in and awards prizes to the winner like we did last season. The best part is you can join the EPL Talk private league […]

Either the English newspapers know something we don't know or they're guilty of sloppy journalism, but the following newspaper articles in The Independent and The Guardian both state that Manchester United will be touring the United States in mid-July. We do know that Manchester United are scheduled to play friendlies in the Far East between […]

An image has appeared on the Internet which is reportedly a picture of Everton's third strip. The rough design of the 2007/2008 Everton third shirt is black except for the logo, which is green. Just this past week, Everton released its new away shirt, which is white in color. Everton's decision to adopt a black […]

Here are some of the interesting tidbits of Premier League-related news that you may be interested in: Setanta Sports has confirmed that French World Cup Winner Emmanuel Petit has joined the Irish broadcaster as a soccer pundit. Petit joins Paul Dempsey, Pat Nolan, Les Ferdinand, Angus Young and Steve McManaman on the Setanta team for […]

During today's press conference to unveil Nigel Reo-Coker as Martin O'Neill's latest signing, the English midfielder and former West Ham United player wore what must undoubtedly be Aston Villa's new away shirt (pictured bottom right). The blue shirt features the new Aston Villa crest with white and claret accents. The shirt color is quite a […]

The anticipation has been building to see what Aston Villa's new kit design will look like for the 07/08 season. And, at last, it has now been uncovered. Aston Villa's new 07/08 home and away shirts are manufactured by Nike. The home shirt (pictured) features the famous claret and blue colors with Villa's new crest. […]

I just want to take a pause to thank a new sponsor to EPL Talk. It's Razorgator.com who have a great selection of those hard-to-find tickets to soccer games throughout the United States. Razorgator.com has tickets for the upcoming friendlies in the States involving Chelsea, Celtic and many others. Go here for more information. Thanks […]

A few days ago I titled a post "Not All is Lost," about the US Copa America campaign. However, tonight the inexperienced squad Coach Bob Bradley sent out looked like they were in a hurry to get on the next plane out of the country in the first half. The performance in the opening 45 […]

The Chicago Fire have made an excellent coaching hire to replace the fired Dave Sarachan. Columbian Juan Carlos Osorio, whom I am personally very familiar with from his four plus years as an assistant at Manchester City under Kevin Keagan and Stuart Pearce will take over the Fire next week according to Soccernet.com. Osorio actually […]

The Chicago Fire have made an excellent coaching hire to replace the fired Dave Sarachan. Columbian Juan Carlos Osorio, whom I am personally very familiar with from his four plus years as an assistant at Manchester City under Kevin Keagan and Stuart Pearce will take over the Fire next week according to Soccernet.com. Osorio actually […]

A somewhat disappointing Copa America for the United States comes to end tonight against Colombia. Expectations were low for the Americans heading into this tounrment. The US brought a side without several first-choice players like Landon Donovan, Demarcus Beasley, Carlos Bocanegra, Tim Howard, and Clint Dempsey to play against two of the most powerful teams […]

Episode Six of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast is now online. Unfortunately we had technical problems while attempting to tape our weekly conversation with BC John, but still have a good give and take with Michael Haley regarding the U-20 World Cup, Copa America and everything else going on in the world of US […]

Episode Six of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast is now online. Unfortunately we had technical problems while attempting to tape our weekly conversation with BC John, but still have a good give and take with Michael Haley regarding the U-20 World Cup, Copa America and everything else going on in the world of US […]

The English newspapers are reporting that Carlos Tevez is poised to become Manchester United's latest signing as early as next week. If the deal goes through, the implications for the Old Trafford club would be enormous. First, United will have managed to secure the biggest transfer target of the summer in Europe away from the […]

Chile's draw tonight with Mexico eliminated the US from the Copa. Nonetheless the US "B" side has given a good effort and we should expect to see them play loose and without pressure tomorrow in the group finale against Columbia.