The Premier League in recent times has become the acid test for managers with the average tenure of a manager in England's top-flight being just over one year according to a survey conducted as recently as May 2013. Another trend of recent years has been the lack of English managers in the Premier League with many […]

To Manchester United’s many fans, it must have been a long-awaited pleasure to watch their team with its many recently imported “Gaalacticos” demolish Queens Park Rangers at Old Trafford after a poor start to the season and after a truly miserable last season. The signs were there in their 4:0 win, the signs of future […]

Another surprise loss for a Liverpool side that is struggling to cope without Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge. Is a title challenge beyond their expectations now? On the other hand, West Ham fans will not be blamed for believing that a top 10 finish is well within their reach with the new signings on show […]

Saturday’s match between Arsenal and Aston Villa at Villa Park is a matchup of two out of the three undefeated clubs in the Barclays Premier League (the other is of course league-leading Chelsea). While the two clubs both have yet to lose in league play so far this season, they have done so in different […]

NBC has announced the commentators for this weekend's Premier League matches that will be shown on television and Internet across the United States. Here's the line-up: Saturday, September 20: QPR vs Stoke, 7:45am, NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra; Peter Drury & Clive Allen Aston Villa vs Arsenal, 10am, NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra; Ian […]

A surfeit of superb games are on offer this weekend, as clubs across Europe begin to get stuck in to their respective domestic leagues. Some are desperate to atone for a stuttering start, others keen to continue a prosperous beginning to their seasons. And with the league table beginning to take shape in some nations, there are […]

Last weekend was a surreal one for me. I spent most of the afternoon in York, as well as the morning in Edinburgh and the evening in Manchester. It was surreal because I was there on a Premier League Saturday, but there was little to no evidence of anything Premier League-related going on in the […]

[Programming note: Manchester City vs Chelsea will be shown LIVE on Sunday morning starting at 10:45am EST on NBC Sports Network] Manchester City's lineup is dotted with top players at every position and each individual has an distinct value to the club. Vincent Kompany is the captain and orchestrates the squad from the back. David Silva […]

Liverpool Football Club have played in five competitive games so far this season and there is still no definitive answer to how they will cope in a post-Luis Suarez world. Out of the five, only against Tottenham away have they resembled the Liverpool seen in the latter half of last season. Manager Brendan Rodgers has […]

[Warning: This article contains language and an image containing words which some readers may find offensive.] Partizan Belgrade have issued an apology for an anti-Semitic banner which was displayed by a section of their home supporters during last night's Europa League Group C opener against Tottenham Hotspur. The banner was unveiled during the first half […]

Team Strengths: Arsenal’s team strengths are ironically their midfield and forward depth (something that the Gunners have had issues with in the past) and passing ability. When all of the Gunners are healthy, the team has Alexis Sanchez, Olivier Giroud, Danny Welbeck, Theo Walcott, Lukas Podolski, Joel Campbell, and Yaya Sanogo as options up front. […]

Sunderland have enjoyed a mixed start to the Premier League season thus far with Gus Poyet's men sitting in a worrying 15th position in the table despite having earned draws against Louis van Gaal's Manchester United as well as Tottenham Hotspur in recent weeks. Unfortunately these two excellent results have had their respective gloss taken […]

[Warning: This article contains language and a picture containing words which some readers may find offensive] For the second consecutive night, fans attending a UEFA European cup tournament have marred the outcome of a match. Last night in Rome, during the second half of AS Roma's Champions League match with CSKA Moscow, travelling supporters attacked stewards […]

Fulham sacked manager Felix Magath today, with the club sitting at the bottom of the Championship table with just one point to its name for the 2014/15 season. The sacking has come on the back of a 5-3 loss away to Nottingham Forest. In the midweek match, the Cottagers came back from being 2-0 down to […]

There are some players that don’t look quite right in their shirt numbers. Etched into our soccer consciousnesses are intangible, requisite criteria when it comes to the number a player should have emblazoned on the back of his jersey. It’s the reflex that niggles at us when we see Samuel Eto’o donning No. 5 for Everton, or […]