For Liverpool FC, it's all about the Premiership this season. Another deep run in the Champions League would be nice, don't misunderstand, but the primary focus for Rafa Benitez and his team is the domestic league. Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, the two leaders of the club, have said as much since the middle of last […]

Roy Hodgson is one of the great unsung English managers of the last 30 years and I'm a big fan of England's most underrated manager. A polite, erudite professor of the game and an intelligent, well spoken man, he's simply never received the recognition his career and achievements deserve in England due to the majority of his success being on […]

The First Round of the Carling Cup has seen more then one CCC team sent out by lower league opposition. Other CCC teams needed extra time to get into the second round. The draw for the Carling Cup Second Round will take place on August 13, 2008. I will have the second round match-ups for […]

Post Match: Sure the US is eliminated but they can hold their heads high for a gutsy effort down a man for almost the entire match. The biggest disappointment is that Holland, completely undeserving to advance does so because of yet another great escape with a PK call on a suspect foul by the Japanese […]

On Tuesday afternoon, the Premier League rolled out a massive new program entitled "Get On With The Game" that brought players, managers, chairmen and referees together to agree on common goals for the new season: to bring order back to the league and get on with the game. The Premier League's PR machine was in […]

Setanta Sports North America has added a new feature to its U.S. and Canadian websites. The new feature allows you, the viewer, to voice your opinion by uploading a video recorded on your webcam or computer. The first topic is: Which team do you think will break the Big Four in the Premier League this […]

Football fans have always been fighting for the right to express themselves above the din of mainstream media. The football fanzine movement in the 1980s gave birth to the When Saturday Comes magazine. More recently, football podcasts have given supporters the chance to speak their mind and share their uncensored thoughts with the listening public. […]

The new Bundesliga season is just days away, so Bundesliga Talk writers Mark Moll and Double Pivot decided to interview one of the preeminent writers and authors on the topic of German soccer, Raphael Honigstein. Many readers may know Honigstein best from his appearances on the Football Weekly Podcast by The Guardian. Here's the transcript […]

Chelsea has not finished outside the top two in five seasons, a span in which they're averaging a mind-blowing 88.5 points a season. They've won two Premiership titles, two Carling Cups, an FA Cup, and, for what it's worth, a Community Shield, during this stretch. They have an impressive, slightly overrated in my opinion because […]

Benfica have completed their fourth signing of the summer by agreeing a one-year loan deal for Spanish winger Jose Antonio Reyes. The 24-year-old makes the move from Atletico Madrid, with the Lisbon club also having the option to buy the player at the end of his loan spell. Benfica coach Quique Sanchez Flores continues to […]

With Didier Drogba, Nicolas Anelka, Salomon Kalou and Andriy Shevchenko in their striking ranks, Chelsea own one of the most exciting, powerful and experienced attacking line-ups in world football. And complemented by the offensive starlets of Deco, Florent Malouda and Joe Cole, who themselves sit in front an immensely strong central midfield duo of Frank […]

With Michael Bradley and Freddy Adu suspended but the US needing a draw to guarantee a place in the final eight, what lineup should Peter Nowak use? Should he revert to a 4-4-2 or stick with the 4-5-1 which has allowed the US to control possession in both matches of the competition thus far? Here […]

The design of official Premier League club websites is becoming as predictable as the race for the Big Four. Late last week, Everton launched a new design of its EvertonFC.com website and surprise, surprise — it looks like most other football websites out there. As is often the case in Internet marketing, competitors look at […]

To celebrate the opening of the new Premier League season, bloggers Ian Cahir and myself will be hosting a live blogging session online here at EPL Talk with you, the readers, from around the world. We'll be sharing our thoughts about the games as they're played in real-time. Plus, you'll be able to participate by: […]

The United States enters the third and final group match of the Olympic Football Tournament needing a draw to guarantee advancement to the knock out stages of the competition. Sunday's heartbreaking turn of events against a totally outclassed Holland team means that the US must get something from a match against a team much better, […]