On the 3rd of May 2009 Norwich lost against Charlton confirming their relegation to League One for the first time since 1960, marking a low moment for the club. This however was eclipsed on the opening day of the following season as Norwich marked their first game in League One with a 7-1 humiliation at home […]

I’ve heard it before. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it. The English Premier League isn’t broken. In fact, it does a lot of things that other professional leagues around the world have been unable to replicate. It has created a league that maximizes the importance of its regular season, while maintaining fan and club […]

One would be tempted to overlook the two matches going on tonight in MLS and focus on an incredible slate of games this weekend, with LA/NY as the headliner. To do so would be to miss some important storylines as the four teams taking the pitch tonight are all in a critical stretch of games […]

"United," the BBC2 documentary that debuted in April 2011, has been found on YouTube. The film, which stars David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible II), tells the true story of the Busby Babes, how many of them were killed in the 1958 Munich Air Disaster and how coach Jimmy Murphy was a […]

A photo of Aston Villa's home shirt for the 2011-12 Premier League season has been leaked on the Internet. Designed and manufactured by Nike, the new shirt isn't befitting one of the oldest and most successful clubs in English football. The familiar claret and sky blue colors are back but they're ruined by the checkered […]

Looking to beef up their MLS coverage and stand out from ESPN, Fox Soccer Channel today unveiled their new theme for their weekly MLS game. Calling it "Soccer Night in America", the new program includes enhanced graphics, a new set, and a jazzed up marketing campaign to draw attention to the game of the week. […]

Soccer fans will long remember the Chelsea against Tottenham Hotspur match from April 30, 2011. It featured a wonderful long-range effort from Sandro, followed by a controversial goal awarded to Frank Lampard and then a winner from Chelsea which, if you ask most people, should have been disallowed because Salomon Kalou was in an offside […]

With Norwich City's remarkable promotion to the Premier League under the stewardship of Paul Lambert, it will raise the number of Premier League managers born in and around Glasgow in Scotland to seven. If Nottingham Forest are successful in the play-offs, Billy Davies will make that number eight. At the moment, the Glasgow boys are […]

Seven or eight games into the season and teams begin to take a hard look at their position at the table. It's still too early to declare teams out of the race especially with a 34 game schedule, but the table is beginning to shake out and as the next few weeks go by, teams […]

Since the insertion of the former Notts County striker Luke Rodgers into the New York Red Bulls side, something special has been happening. They started out slow, but all of a sudden exploded for seven goals at home against the Earthquakes and on the road at DC United. But this time it looked like a […]

Dorothy Gale gave sage advice to any MLS team: there's no place like home. Every home team in MLS got at least a point this weekend, showing that there is an advantage to playing in front of hometown fans. What that meant for the standings is that when the dust cleared, LA stood atop the […]

Today marks the opening of the 2010-11 EPL Awards, an annual competition (now in its third year) that encourages the public to vote for the best of the Premier League season. There are 31 categories this year to choose from to give soccer fans the chance to vote for the best managers, best footballers, blogs, […]

The pressure was on Arsenal and Chelsea this weekend to get all three points to close the gap with Manchester United at the top of the Premier League table. Both clubs achieved those aims, which now opens up the Premier League title race. During this episode, The Gaffer and Kartik Krishnaiyer discuss the action at […]

Maybe it's wishful thinking, but if Chelsea beat Manchester United at Old Trafford next Sunday, the Blues will move into first place with a better goal difference, blowing the Premier League title race wide open when everyone thought it was already Manchester United's. But at the biggest game of the season next Sunday, who do […]

Today's Premier League matches feature two very early kick-offs between Birmingham City and Wolverhampton Wanderers as well as Liverpool against Newcastle, followed by Arsenal versus Manchester United and the finished off with Manchester City against West Ham United. Needless to say, there's a lot on the line in every match today. In the early kick-off […]