As the New Year has come to the fans and writers of US Soccer, we have to start discussing the wonderful world of FIFA President Sepp Blatter. He has done it again, as the Gaffer detailed in his recent posting. The question of the popularity of soccer in this country has been brought up a lot over […]

André Villas-Boas has promised a quiet transfer window for Tottenham this January. Daniel Levy took charge of the transfer dealings during the summer rather than handing over the reins to the 35-year-old Villas-Boas. At Chelsea last year, Villas-Boas showed his understanding of the transfer market by bringing in talents such as Juan Mata and Romelu […]

Ugh, hangover from a very Happy New Years Eve, so it'll be a shorter preamble than usual! I feel like the color of Fulham's away shirt today. Here are today's matches: Tuesday, January 1: West Brom vs Fulham, 7:45am, FOX Soccer Wigan vs Manchester United, 10am, FOX Soccer Manchester City vs Stoke, 10am, ESPN Deportes/ESPN3.com […]

The current Manchester United defense is the worst in 11 years. In the first 19 games of the 2012-13 Premier League season, Manchester United have conceded 28 goals, an average of 1.47 goals per match. The last time United had a worse defensive record was in 2001 when they conceded the same number of goals […]

Happy New Year folks! Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Roberto Mancini rues Manchester City's failure to land Robin van Persie — The Guardian Reading pay £600,000 for Sporting Lisbon's captain Daniel Carrico — The Guardian Graphic: Gary Neville’s team of the Premier League 2012/2013 so far — 101 GG Newcastle's Demba Ba has the […]

I'd like to personally wish you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year. As 2012 comes to a close, I'd like to thank you all for a tremendous year — perhaps our best one yet at EPL Talk. Our website and coverage continues to grow. We had a daily podcast during Euro 2012, […]

Three months ago, without telling anyone, I began a fun experiment on Twitter to live-tweet my life in suburbia (near West Palm Beach, Florida, to be exact). Since most of my life is consumed by watching, reading and writing about soccer, I thought it'd be an interesting experiment to live tweet any instances where I […]

If you didn't get an iPad Mini for the holidays, or you want a second one, be sure to enter your predictions for Beat The Manager, gameweek 21. The deadline to get them in is this Wednesday at 6:30am ET. We're giving one away after the end of gameweek 25 — and with all of the […]

The emergence of Theo Walcott as a center forward should bring an end to Arsenal’s search for a striker in the transfer market. Walcott, whose hat-trick and overall performance led Arsenal to a 7-3 victory over Newcastle, has appeared reborn since Arsene Wenger shifted him inside. The first tally on a wild day at the […]

While soccer is growing in the United States, the fandom of an American soccer fan can still be a solitary experience. Most people I interact with on a daily basis aren’t fans of the sport, much less enthusiastic fans who will want to chat about last weekend’s action or the more recent transfer gossip. Honestly, […]

Here are five observations from Manchester United's 2-0 victory against West Bromwich Albion in gameweek 20 of the 2012-13 season: 1. United manage to get a clean sheet: You read it right. The league leaders have been ruthless when it comes to finding the back of the net but the clumsiness in defense meant they […]

Chelsea's hopes of signing Demba Ba from Newcastle United have seemingly been dashed after talks broke down over contract terms. The Newcastle United striker has a release clause in his contract that allows a club to come in and sign him if they bid £7 million. While Chelsea and other clubs are interested in Senegalese […]

Newcastle United looks set to sign France defender Mathieu Debuchy, and the timing couldn't be better. United is suffering from a horrible dip in form, and there are plenty of gaps in the back four. Debuchy should be a brilliant addition to the Premier League. Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Newcastle set to […]

It's been another brilliant weekend in the Premier League, so I thought I'd try something new this week with a list of 10 things I loved about this Premier League gameweek 20 weekend that I either saw or read: 1. Cameron Jerome's goal for Stoke to make it 3-3. Who would have thought that before […]

In an interview released this weekend by Al Jazeera, FIFA President Sepp Blatter slammed Major League Soccer calling it "not a very strong professional league" and saying that "no professional (soccer) leagues (are) recognized by American society." The statements by Blatter will be extremely embarrassing to MLS and US Soccer executives particularly with the criticism […]