Now that the opening weekend of the Premier League has kicked off, one thing is absolutely clear. Both Chelsea and Manchester United have a new rival to contend with. It's an opponent that will be hanging over their heads throughout the entire season, adding pressure at key moments. It's a new competitor in the Premier […]

Today's DFB Pokal games saw Bayern Munich thump Germania Dattenfeld, and Schalke nip past ten-man VfR Aalen. Bayern Munich started a full strength side as they prepare for the upcoming Bundesliga season. Arjen Robben is still absent after succumbing to a recurring injury in pre-season, but Martin Demichelis returned to the side after being passed […]

Soccer Talk Live, a new TV show from Fox Soccer Channel, debuted Monday night in place of the recently cancelled Fox Football Fone-In. The new show, hosted by former LA Galaxy player Kyle Martino, is a completely different concept than anything Fox has tried before, so they should be given credit for trying. However, the […]

Italy's oldest soccer club finished a disappointing ninth last season, and the management has made it clear this offseason that such a result is unacceptable. Disappointing play by a number of key players left the club outside the top six, one year after qualifying for the UEFA Cup and two years after returning to Serie A […]

Tuesday, August 17th 8:00PM EDT – 5:00PM PDT Guests: Late Addition Glen Davis Houston Dynamo play-by-play announcer Clint Mathis Media Interview at Red Bull Arena about his retirement Adam Soucie of Orlando Soccer Blog NASL Segment Re-Capping Red Bulls one goal loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy

This past weekend was the weekend many Premier League fans have been waiting on for quite some time now, at least here in the States. FSCHD went live for DirecTV subscribers last Wednesday which was a great way to enter into the opening weekend of the 2010-2011 Premier League season. The feed FSC broadcasts had plenty […]

Eriksson Thinks Capello Was Wrong To Force Beckham Out Former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson has criticized current manager Fabio Capello for announcing that David Beckham would likely not play in any more competitve matches for the Three Lions. "Beckham deserves all the respect you can give to him," Eriksson said. "When he gets fit, he […]

Okay. A late night rant (to be posted in the morning). Before we berate the dubious intentions of a prominent Stateside soccer broadcaster, we should probably first go through that bit where we say that the opinions of Mr Ethan Armstrong don't necessarily reflect the opinions of EPLTalk etc etc. There. Done. And now... Fail Fox Soccer […]

I Hart the Premier League Did you ever see the movie Office Space where they guy makes the 'jump to conclusions' mat? His idea was to craft something similar to the pet rock which made some guy named Gary Dahl a cool million+ in the 70's. Such it was that the character in the movie […]

It may only be just over a month since the World Cup has ended but that time has dragged by with very little football to watch and very few interesting transfer stories. What a relief then that the first weekend of the Premier League season would prove to be so unpredictable unless you were at […]

It's incredible to think of all of the enhancements that are made to Football Manager year after year. The game becomes closer to real life football management with each release. And now we have a sneak peek of what will be featured in Football Manager 2011 which will be released before the end of 2010. […]

Prandelli led Fiorentina to a very important point, but this season there will be no Champions League, and no Europa League for the Viola. While Mihajlovic has taken over, things don't look very different with Fiorentina for this upcoming season, only two players were bought and only two players were sold/released. Probably the biggest factor […]

The first weekend of the season went into the books with the final whistle at Anfield, Arsenal's visit to Liverpool the EPL Talk Podcast Match of the Week. To talk about the match and the eight from Saturday, I was joined Sunday night by Kartik Krishnaiyer for the first EPL Talk Weekend Review Show of […]

Juventus' samba star Diego, who was prolific during his time in the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen, is reportedly on the verge of a move back to the Bundesliga with Steve McClaren's new look Wolfsburg side. Unfortunately for Diego, his current side refuse to let a player of his calibre go without a fight. Diego's promising […]

The Week 20 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 20 154 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 17,497 7 15,233 15,449 128 2007 23,740 35.68% 7 16,027 5.21% 15,899 2.91% 129 2008 13,907 -41.42% 4 16,484 2.85% 17,230 8.37% 132 2009 12,055 […]