Don't ever let anyone tell you Stoke City fans aren't a passionate lot who love their club and their players. Due to an outpouring of support on the recent Premier League Footballer of the Week, I feel it necessary to give Mr. Fuller and the proud people of Stoke their full amount of credit that's […]

Before we get into the weekend's games, there is a bit of news today. Jon Busch, waived last week by the Fire, has reportedly signed with the San Jose Earthquakes. He's a quality keeper, but the Earthquakes' issues, I think, would be better addressed by adding some defenders. Now, for the week that was: Thursday, […]

Leaders leading & Chelsea score 7, Liverpool should have scored 7 And it was Craig Gordon (again) who produced the kind of performance that kept Sunderland from experiencing an embarrassing afternoon, just ask Aston Villa. Such were the fortunes and misfortunes from just 2 of the 9 Premier League matches on offer Saturday and Sunday […]

For the past several years in the United States, the majority of soccer fans who were watching Premier League matches saw — for the most part — the same games. The vast majority of us watched the Saturday 10am ET game on Fox Soccer Channel, as well as the 12:30pm ET one and the match […]

A gigantic banner covered one end of the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu before the match. On this banner, the Grim Reaper and other scary creatures from movies and stories past sprawled across, and there was a message for their Madrid neighbors to the south, "Noche de Derby. Vuestra Peor Pesadilla." In English, this means, "Derby night. […]

In what should be the first of a season's worth of Monday review shows, Daniel Feuerstein and Robert Jonas join me to review the first weekend of the 2010 MLS Season. Included with their analysis is audio post-match from Red Bull Arena, where RBNY introduced their arena to MLS action with a 1-0 win over […]

Manchester United and Chelsea gave dominant weekend performances while Arsenal fell off-the-pace by tripping at St. Andrew's. On this edition of the EPL Talk Podcast's weekend review show, Laurence McKenna and Richard Farley discuss those matches as well as the race for fourth, the relegation battle, and the impending Champions League fixtures.

The Week 1 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 1 8 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 22,292 6 22,684 22,292 6 2007 16,109 -27.73% 6 17,051 -24.83% 16,109 -27.73% 6 2008 15,312 -4.95% 6 16,803 -1.46% 15,312 -4.95% 6 2009 17,095 […]

There is a world-wide assumption that, when it comes to a ball, Americans can only throw and catch while Brazilians can do the samba with the ball at their feet and never miss a step. Every time a Brazilian joins a MLS team, the fans greet those players like time-travelers from the future, eager to […]

Not that most of us need many reasons to keep watching for the remainder of this season, but the closing of this season gives us quite a few to keep our DVRs busy. We have, obviously, the race for the title starting to get really interesting with Manchester United, Chelsea, and Arsenal all warranting reasons […]

Linda Cuttone/Sports Vue Images It was another fantastic evening at Red Bull Arena as the supporters were thirsting for more fantastic football out in Harrison, NJ after a great performance against Santos F.C. the week before. To get their first win of the new […]

Is Major League Soccer's new website, MLSsoccer.com, purposefully trying to downplay the low number of goals that are scored in the league or are they just incompetent? The answer is the latter. Or at least a technical snafu where the games aren't being updated with the final results. The above screenshot was taken just a […]

Wanderers hosted Man United at the Reebok Saturday evening. The first half was argy-bargy as both teams wrestled for control. Each side had chances during the often end-to-end passages of play. The breakthrough was fortunate for United and abysmal for Bolton when Samual carelessly own-goaled right before the interval. Bolton continued playing well in the […]

Bolton Wanderers 0 – 3 Manchester United Bolton Wanderers 0 – 4 Manchester United Every once in a while, you see a footballer make an incredible move. It's so good that you have to rub your eyes, rewind the DVR and watch it in slow motion to see how he did it exactly. In the […]

If you are the CEO of a company, you expect to have most if not all the power to make decisions. It’s down to you to drive the business, to solve problems and delegate where necessary. You’re in charge and you have the power to hire and fire. However, the Chief Executive of the FA, […]