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/ 4879 days agoTottenham Hotspur vs Arsenal, Premier League Gameweek 28: Open Thread
Today's match between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal is arguably one of the biggest Premier League matches for the next few weeks especially if you consider the race for the Premier League title to be over. Unusually, Tottenham is the clear favorite in this match. Gareth Bale is in the hottest form of his career and […]

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/ 4879 days agoThe Piers Morgan Show On FOX Soccer: What's Your Opinion?
FOX Soccer is pulling out of the stops today by featuring opinionated Arsenal supporter and TV host Piers Morgan in its pre-match, half-time and post game analysis for the Tottenham Hotspur-Arsenal coverage. While I hope that the match itself will be the main talking point, I wanted to create this open thread to give you […]

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/ 4879 days agoKroenke Has 'No Intention' of Selling Arsenal Stake Despite Bid Reports: The Daily EPL
Not surprisingly, Arsenal Football Club has come out and denied the reports that the club has received a bid from a Middle East consortium to buy out the club. Yesterday's story reported that the bid was a few weeks away, so expect the story to continue during the next few weeks as British tabloids bring […]
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/ 4879 days agoTimely Finishing Propels KC Over Philadelphia, 3-1
The 2013 Major League Soccer season shoved off from the shores of the Delaware River on Saturday. The host Philadelphia Union were the dominant team in the match, but Sporting Kansas City took better advantage of their fewer chances and ended victorious 3-1 on a chilly March afternoon. Coming Home The story of this match […]

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/ 4879 days agoPremier League Saturday Gameweek 28 Match Highlights
While most of the attention this weekend will be on tomorrow's north London derby between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, there were still plenty of absorbing matches to watch this Saturday. In total, there were 22 goals today for an average goals per game of 2.75. Here are today's Premier League match highlights (restricted to US […]

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/ 4879 days agoArsenal Target of £1.5bn Takeover Bid from Middle East Consortium: The Nightly EPL
Both the Sunday Telegraph and Sun newspapers are reporting in tomorrow's editions that Arsenal will be the subject of a £1.5 billion bid in the next few weeks from a Middle Eastern investment. The consortium — which has investors in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — have been working on a deal for the […]

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/ 4880 days ago‘The Fix: Soccer And Organized Crime’ is This Month’s Book Club Selection, Join the Discussion!
You, the readers, have spoken. The book discussion selection for March is the very timely international bestseller entitled The Fix: Soccer And Organized Crime by author and investigative journalist Declan Hill. In a recent article by Declan Hill in BBC Sport, the Canadian author says that "I do not mean that there is rampant fixing […]

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/ 4880 days agoPremier League Saturday: March 2, 2013
Ryan Giggs will play his 1,000th senior appearance today (as long as Sir Alex Ferguson doesn't spoil the plot). If he does play for the Red Devils, it'll be 22 years to the day when he made his debut for United on March 2, 1991. I, and many others, thought that Giggsy would be making his […]

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/ 4880 days agoArsene Wenger Hasn't Made Tactical Plans to Stop Gareth Bale: The Nightly EPL
The more that time passes, the more I wonder how out-of-touch Arsene Wenger is with modern day football management. He admitted in his press conference this morning that his team hasn't made any tactical plans to stop Gareth Bale. Instead, it appears that he'll trust the Arsenal defenders to stop Bale. But how many times […]
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/ 4880 days agoMLS '13: Our Predictions
Tomorrow hatches the 2013 campaign for the 19 teams in Major League Soccer. When we began our series of previews a couple of weeks ago, I had asked a number of contributors to the site and podcast to give me their predictions for the season. Please feel free to share your predictions for the upcoming […]

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/ 4880 days ago5 Footballers I Would Have Loved Manchester United to Have Signed
In the Premier League era, Manchester United like every other club have been linked with a lot of players in the build-up to and during transfer windows. Most of the time it is hard to establish which rumors are genuine and which ones are just made up by an over-elaborate journalist looking for some attention. […]

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/ 4881 days agoFantasy Premier League Tips: March 1, 2013
A little late this week, but here are my notes and observations from gameweek 27 in the Fantasy Premier League: Americans! In the Premier League! Brek Shea (5.0) made his Stoke debut in a game that I imagine most of you didn’t bother getting up for. There are, after all, more important things in life […]

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/ 4881 days agoFFS: Rafa Benitez's Rant, Ferguson Team Talk and Gareth Bale Force [VIDEO]
In the week that Rafa ranted, FFS brings an alternative look at football. Barry Deane presents a packed show featuring an exclusive look at an Alex Ferguson team talk, an appeal for Sid Down and a song for the Welsh wonder who has a rocket in his shoes, Gareth Bale. This week's episode is the […]

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/ 4881 days agoDecide Which Book Should Be March's Book Discussion Selection
EPL Talk has wrapped up two book discussions so far this year — Soccernomics 2.0, and The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw. But now it's time to pick a book to read for March, so I thought I'd ask you for your opinion. Go ahead and vote in the poll below for the book you […]

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/ 4881 days agoGet Your Predictions in for Beat The Manager Gameweek 28
We're getting closer to the next stage of Beat The Manager, the online prediction game from EPL Talk. After gameweek 30 ends, we'll be giving away another Apple iPad Mini to one lucky person. If you haven’t played Beat The Manager before, start today. A new iPad Mini will be awarded after Gameweek 30. It’s free to play. You […]