We've discussed the red cards and yellow cards from the USA-Italy match to death, but the overall booking situation needs to be addressed by FIFA. My thinking is that if FIFA is going to insist on issuing yellow cards in place of warnings for the referee about play, then FIFA needs to change the rule […]

Just completed an interesting interview this morning on live TV for BBC World's "My World Cup" show. The host, Adnan, asked me about the US performance in the Italy match, how the coverage has been thus far on TV, and whether there are a lot of immigrants who play for the US national team. For […]

For those of you visiting the EPL Talk Blog for the first time, here's a quick rundown of some of reasons to explore the site (and hopefully keep on returning): EPL Talk Blog. Updated daily, the blog gives you insight and observations into the World Cup and English Premier League. It especially caters for those […]

I had the pleasure tonight of interviewing Sean Wheelock live from Germany for the latest episode of the EPL Talk Podcast. Since 1996, Wheelock has been a soccer correspondent for BBC Five Live and many of you may be familiar hearing his voice on the popular "Up All Night" show (if you haven't listened to […]

Cash Peters is one of the funniest persons on radio today. You may have heard his interviews on Marketplace (from NPR) or on BBC's Five Live. I thought it'd be interesting to interview Peters regarding the World Cup or what team he supports (he is English, after all). Here's his hilarious response (see below). For […]

The Sun newspaper from England is streaming the World Cup matches live via Internet audio (including the current Australia versus Brazil match). Just click on the link below: The Sun newspaper (England)

Maybe it is the Group of Death after all? With the US's ugly but valiant draw against Italy, all four teams in Group E now go into the final match with a chance to make it through to the next round. The Americans finally showed the passion they were severely lacking in the Czech match. […]

Ghana 2 – 0 Czech Republic in the 86th minute. Could this be the first shock upset of the World Cup?

It's the 33rd minute of the Czech Republic against Ghana match, and the Africans are deservedly one nil in the lead. There's alot of time to go in the match, but this bodes well so far for the US. Note that we're still waiting to see a shock upset in this World Cup. Could this […]

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Bruce Arena lacks the options he had in 2002 to shake up the team The embarrassing performance of the USA in the World Cup opener on Monday would be enough force most coaches to seek asylum in some foreign nation instead of returning home after the competition with the team. But in Bruce Arena's case […]

Greetings fellow bloggers. In the coming weeks I will be visiting the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg for leisure and hope to bring you all some local flavor from the World Cup. I cant promise much more than that, but certainly hope to entertain you with stories of rowdy pubs and the orange army of fans […]

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