When Fabio Capello was appointed England manager, people asked me what my thoughts were on the matter. My viewpoint at the time was that it would bring clarity to whether the England national team was still a football power or not. After all, if Capello couldn't turn England into a winning football team, then no […]

Who ever thought that in the first and last minute Real Madrid would further sink Atlético into deeper problems after a heated Madrid derby. With only 35 seconds gone by in the match Ruud Van Nistelrooy smacked a shot from 25 yards out to beat Leo Franco on the left post. Overall the match was […]

Two Premier League matches are subject of a match fixing investigation by the London fraud unit, according to The Daily Telegraph. The games in question are a Premier League match from 2007 and a Premier League game from 2001. Both matches were accompanied by suspicious betting swings in the Asian betting market. The clubs featured […]

It seemed like the good ole days on Saturday at the San Paolo when Napoli defeated their big rivals Juventus to take over the top spot in the Serie A standings. They will at least have a share of that until they see how Inter and Roma fare and Lazio do as well. It was […]

Today was a turning point in the 2008/2009 Premier League season as one, it marked the first weekend this season when all Big Four clubs won their matches. And two, the top four teams in the Premier League are now the Big Four clubs — at least for the next 24 hours. Each of the […]

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While the Canadian National Team has been eliminated from securing its first World Cup qualification since 1986, this has been an otherwise banner year in Canadian Soccer. Toronto FC has been a few terrible (and dare I say blatant) officials calls away from making the MLS playoffs as a second year franchise. The Thunder Bay […]

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Follow Arsenal against Everton live and online today via the EPL Talk Chat featuring football fans discussing the match from around the world. Kick off time is 10:00 am ET/3:00 pm BST. The chat is currently ongoing. We will also be keeping everyone up to date on Aston Villa v Portsmouth, Bolton v Blackburn, Fulham […]

Hey, for those of you that were hating my last piece... you are absolutely right! There was nothing going on in Argentina, and that was confirmed by Lionel Messi when he arrived in Spain, he expressed his satisfaction after Alfio Basile resigned from the national team position. "When things aren't going well, there needs to […]

Previews of the weekend's fixtures courtesy of The Sun, The Telegraph and Sky Sports. The Injury Front Michael Owen does it again. I guess it's comforting Beye, Gutierrez and Martins are coming back...then again, maybe not. If Kinnear can stay calm about this, it will be the first sign of hell freezing over. Arsenal lose […]

It's no wonder that Tottenham Hotspur are playing so abysmally this season. Have you heard Juande Ramos's English? Seriously, if you were a player on the Spurs squad and you listened to Ramos speak, would you understand him, respect him and be motivated by him? Listen to his Friday press conference below and you tell […]

It's so rare these days that a football manager says anything new or remotely intelligent other than the rehearsed lines he memorizes from media training. Other than Joe Kinnear, of course. But Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari said so many refreshing things on Friday that I felt compelled to write about it. When asked about […]

Bolton against Blackburn isn't one of the biggest derbies in the Premier League season, but Saturday's battle between the two Lancashire sides — separated by 17 miles — will be watched by the biggest home crowd of the season including 1,000 fans supplied with free beer in the new Fanzone and "singing end" behind one […]