I grew up watching Gerd Mueller, the all time leading goal scorer in World Cup History in his NASL stint with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. (where he played alongside worldwide greats Elias Figeroua, Nene Cubilias and George Best). Mueller's record of 14 World Cup goals is serious jeopardy of finally being broken in this World […]

Now, what if? What if England ties or beats Sweden today? Germany would presumably play Sweden, and England would play Ecuador. If both Germany and England would win those matches, here's my prediction of who would play who in the Quarter Finals of the World Cup: Friday, June 30, 11am ET: Germany v Argentina Saturday, […]

The stage is set for England. All they need is a draw against Sweden to guarantee first place in Group B, which means they would play Ecuador on Sunday morning (11am ET) If England loses this afternoon, they'll play Germany on Saturday morning (11am ET). Based on Deutschland's performance this morning against Ecuador, the Germans […]

Great news. I was interviewed tonight by Rhod Sharpe for BBC Radio Five Live's show, Up All Night. You can listen to the interview right here, right now. Let me know what you think of it!

ABC and ESPN's ratings for World Cup have been excellent despite the cynics and obvious contempt of the soccer hating sports media in this country. The Czech Republic-USA match was the highest rated program thus far in 2006 on ESPN 2, and the USA-Italy game garnered a 5.8 overnight rating for the ABC telecast. ABC […]

If you're free at 9:30pm ET tonight (2:30am UK time), tune in to BBC Radio Five Live! They'll be interviewing me and playing some excerpts from the EPL Talk Podcast interview with Sean Wheelock. The interview will be immediately followed by a piece on Ricky Gervais from The Office fame.

I just want to do a little poll. Question: Who did a worse job officiating their game? Hugh Dallas (2002 v. Germany) or Jorge Larrionda (2006 v. Italy)?

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?