All Premier League games this weekend will feature a special red-coloured version of the usual official Nike T90 Ascente ball. It's all part of the Red charity campaign to fight AIDS in Africa. Serie A and La Liga will be joining the Premier League in the use of the Red ball during their weekend matches. […]

Negotiations continue in the stalemate between Major League Soccer and the players union, and a strike now looks more likely to happen unless a new collective bargaining agreement is in place. The negotiations have split the soccer community between those that sympathize with the players and those who want Major League Soccer to stand firm. […]

The thrilling race at the top of La Liga came to a head last weekend, when Barcelona dropped two points at surging Almería, and Real Madrid fought back from a 0-2 deficit to win against Sevilla in the second minute of stoppage time 3-2. Now the two exemplars of Spanish football are tied for the […]

Two stories coming out of Manchester today couldn't be more opposite. The blue half will garner an incredible amount of respect and praise for its plans to spend an obscene amount of money to redevelop the area around the City of Manchester Stadium. The red half, meanwhile, is using some heavy-handed tactics to try to […]

With the 2009-10 Premier League season entering its final furlong, there are still thousands of managers searching for an all important edge to make their team stand out from the crowd. Ok, so there may be a select group of fifty that get the most publicity and are supposedly under the most pressure but anyone […]

On this episode of the EPL Talk podcast, Soccerex's Misha Sher rejoined the podcast to talk about ... his views on the stage of the World Cup 2018 bids, any improvements in England's bid, the strength of Russia's bid, Soccerex's recent European Expo in Manchester, American sports business models and European football, the debt problems […]

Slight update based on this week's games. Germany is now 1.5 points behind Italy for the 3rd spot on the UEFA Coefficient list, losing a little bit of ground as Italy went 2-0-1 to Germany's 1-2-1. Fiorentina and Juventus gained full points this week, but Robben's wonder-goal eliminated Fiorentina from Europe. At the moment, Italy […]

To the readers of the Major League Soccer Talk site, after months of careful planning and finding ways to discuss the game that we are all passionate about, I have decided to make a return to the internet airwaves thru Blog Talk Radio. I have been writing for a good while on my old blog […]

With around 10 games left on the schedule, it's white-knuckle time up and down the table in the Barclays Premier League. Three teams are within two points of first place, four teams are within four points of fourth place and seven teams are within six points of the drop zone. Or, if math really isn't […]

This weekend will be a turning point for the English Premier League in the United States. For the first time in history, all ten Premier League matches will be available live to U.S. viewers. Typically soccer fans in the United States have been able to see as many as eight live games out of the […]

I'm the fan who demands my one year in denial. I cling to the hopes of last season, refusing to believe something can't be salvaged from this one (as the definition of salvage changes from Can we still finish top four? to Can we still finish top six? Top seven?) With my team so plagued by injury […]

After a couple of days worth of meetings in Washington D.C. with federal mediator George H. Cohen, Major League Soccer and the MLS Players Union agree on only one thing: There isn't a work stoppage. Right now. Here's the net result of the meetings so far, a joint statement about the progress of the negociations: […]

After a Champions League week in which both Arsenal and United cruised through, the media in UK goes overboard. There are rarely any shades of grey in press coverage here. You’re a hero or a zero and that’s pretty much it. At the moment you’d think Rooney had actually invented heading the ball, so extreme […]

Thursday gives the team of Kartik Krishnaiyer, Laurence McKenna and Richard Farley their first chance to reflect on a banner week for the Premiership in the UEFA Champions League. The team gets together to discuss Manchester United's 4-0 (7-2) win over AC Milan, Arsenal's 5-0 (6-2) win over Porto, Thursday's Europa League match for Fulham […]

Arsenal's stunning Champions League win over Porto.