If Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) sides Boston Breakers and Chicago Red Stars have their way, Arsenal America had better get ready for a new wave of members. This weekend, both Boston and Chicago hit the road to make their WPS debuts, facing the – it has to be said – curiously-named FC Gold Pride (Santa […]

Bob Bradley shook up the US lineup entering tonight's must win qualifier in Nashville against Trinidad and Tobago. The squad responded with a 3-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago. But I will preface the analysis of the match with the fact that T&T created more chances than they should have considering Dwight Yorke was injured […]

1. Didier Drogba Possibly the sulkiest striker at Chelsea, Didier Drogba has been constantly linked elsewhere since the departure of the Special One in 2007. First Barcelona and La Liga, and then Inter and the Serie A tempted the hitman. Drogba has alternately loved the London club and then claimed he was unhappy. The attitude […]

US Lineup: Hejduk , Onyewu, Bocanegra, Beasley, Dempsey, Mastroeni, Bradley, Donovan; Altidore, Ching. Beasley plays left back replacing Heath Pearce, Beasley is replaced in left midfield by Clint Dempsey who is replaced on the right side by Landon Donovan. Jozy Altidore starts up top for Donovan. Please join us on twitter, at twitter.com/mlstalk for a […]

While many know Richard Scudamore as the Chief Executive of the Premier League, many more would probably know him as “That guy who keeps talking about a 39th game.” After a good long run in the papers last year, the 39th game proposal has been mostly out of the news for a while now. But […]

Back in the day, commentators, football writers and outfield players all used to laugh at goalkeepers. They were sometimes described as 'a breed apart' but mostly they were bluntly referred to as 'mad'. Keepers were allowed to have rushes of blood and make silly mistakes, because that is what they were there for. They provided […]

Nashville is the venue for the today's World Cup Qualifier between the United States, high flying side at home and Francisco Maturana's Soca Warriors. The last time these two teams met on US soil, last September in Chicago, Maturana got his tactics all wrong and T&T was smoked. Quite frankly, I see the same exact […]

If you thought that Pranks, Jokes and Shenanigans on April Fools Day are to be expected you are correct. Even the sometimes more reserved Germans participate in this day with fervor and the German Soccer press is no exception. Here are some of the things to be found in the press in Germany today: The Berliner-kurier has […]

Lots of news from England in the last 24 hours (read EPL Talk's Premier League news feed updated daily). Here are just a few of the highlights: Tottenham Hotspur Unveil Future Plans for White Hart Lane (Tottenham Hotspur). Spurs have released detailed plans for their mini-me Emirates Stadium to replace their current ground at White […]

What a difference a year makes. Last summer ESPN was raving about its better than expected TV ratings for Euro 2008, which was one of the best produced tournaments soccer fans in the United States had ever seen (helped by the bonus of games being available in HD). But since then, ESPN dumped its MLS […]

We here at EPL Talk usually don't publish rumors, but this one is too big to overlook. We've received several anonymous reports that Fox Soccer Channel and Setanta Sports have agreed to merge to form a new company. Setanta Sports, who have reportedly been in financial trouble in the United Kingdom, have long worked with […]

Gentleman, let us put away childish things. Yes, international breaks can provide some godawful football. Yes, it doesn’t seem fair for a player to risk injury for a team he plays with only five times a year and miss games for the club that employs him on a weekly basis. Yes, nations like Lichtenstein don’t […]

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during Mike Ashley's meeting when he decided that Alan Shearer was the man to replace Joe Kinnear as manager of Newcastle United: Blimey! Okay men, we 'ave a problem. Old Joe Kinnear 'as a dodgy 'eart, an' aaahr team is in freefall an' looks likely ter […]

Well! It's finally happened. The breaking news in the last 15 minutes is that Alan Shearer will take charge of Newcastle United until the end of the current season. Joe Kinnear's medical condition leaves him unfit to return to work at this current time which has left owner Mike Ashley with a search for a new […]

The empire strikes back could have been the headline for Saturday as Mexico beat nemesis Costa Rica to reclaim a little bit of lost mojo. But now Mexico must go to Honduras and slay another dragon, in the form of traditional Mexican killer Carlos Pavon. Pavon's international career has been on the rocks of late […]