Manchester City are spending their way into the Premier League top four. Paradoxically, the club most amenable to their ambition is Arsenal, whom they wish to supplant. The Gunners sold City striker Emmanuel Adebayor for £25m. Less than two weeks later, they are prepared to sell them defender Kolo Toure for another £14m, as the […]

Chelsea players have now returned to London after an incredibly satisfying US tour. So successful, in fact, that it was the highest attended US tour by a Premier League club ever, based on average attendance. During their time in the States, EPL Talk featured extensive coverage of their tour including interviews with Mikel John Obi, […]

ESPN360 is now available to Comcast customers a few days earlier than its originally planned August 4th launch date. This is spectacular news for soccer fans who are also Comcast customers. ESPN360 is only available online to customers of ISPs who have contracted with ESPN to make the service available. And Comcast was one of […]

As is the usual preseason prediction, the three promoted sides are always the favourites to go straight back down. Last season gave us something of a novelty in recent years, with two of the three sides that came up in 2007-2008 staying with us for another year, as close as Hull tried to throw it […]

One of last season's semi-finalists, Hamburger SV, enter this year's competition in the third qualifying round against Randers FC of Denmark. Hamburg have added one of the most exciting young talents in Europe to their squad and will look to make it all the way to the Europa League finals which will be held at […]

" It was just a C team" goes the mantra. For some this is just a simple retort to accept and write off a 5-0 loss to your biggest rivals who were also playing without the majority of their top players (in fact, I would note before this tournament started Gerrado Torrado was the only […]

Part 2: The Match It took me a while to accept the surreal feeling born of both Milan teams playing in my back yard. I was at Gillette Stadium watching soccer and the place was bursting with energy. Average attendance for the New England Revolution in 2008 was 17,580. Only two sides of the stadium will […]

Following up on its successful coverage of the 2009 Peace Cup, GolTV announced this morning that it'll be televising the Emirates Cup featuring Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Paris St. Germain and Glasgow Rangers. The tournament begins on Saturday, Aug. 1 as Rangers take on Paris Saint-Germain at 9:30 a.m. ET, followed by Arsenal versus Atlético Madrid […]

Less than two weeks to go until the new Championship season. Squads are coming together. Some managers are content, others are panicking. Fans are enjoying a final fortnight of optimism before reality sets in. With this in mind, here are five random predictions for the coming season, hung on a flimsy animal theme: Dark Horses: […]

Wigan Athletic have unveiled their new away kit for the 2009/2010 season in honour of the famous Netherlands side from the 1978 World Cup. Wigan's new away kit is orange with black trim, and black shorts. Designed and manufactured by Vandanel, the new away kit celebrates the year that Wigan entered the Football League (1978) […]

I don't have to tell all of you what's been written on the internet from the local NYC/NJ beat writers that follow this club from the days of the MetroStars and are now RBNY. All of us follow the tables in Major League Soccer and as it's starring right in your face as well as […]

The English Premier League is one of the most popular football leagues in the world for many reasons, especially its coaching soap opera. No other league has managed to turn coaching vendettas and spats into a complex, highly entertaining mix of both low and high art in the manner that the EPL has achieved. Granted […]

An abbreviated post due to my being on the road. After week 19 the numbers look like this... 5 year comparison WK 15 137 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2005 13,291 6 14,799 14,506 124 2006 92,650 597.11% 1 15,564 5.17% 15,194 4.74% 121 2007 25,407 -72.58% 5 15,966 2.58% […]

Sunday morning, 26th of July: On five hours of sleep, I pull myself from my bedroom, cross the hall to the living room and land on the couch. It's a journey of maybe 20 feet, but it feels like Stage 20 of the Tour de France. I am a zombie on NyQuil dragging bags of concrete behind me. Liverpool […]

Episode 124 of the EPL Talk Podcast features interviews with Chelsea's John Terry and Carlo Ancelotti after Chelsea's 2-0 victory against Club America in the final of the World Football Challenge in Arlington, Texas. Both Terry and Ancelotti discuss their reflections on the tournament itself. Thanks to Brian Zygo for interviewing both Terry and Ancelotti. […]