For years Mexican football fans have attacked the United States success in the most negative way possible: accusing the Yanks of playing a cynical game that relied on rough play and counter attacking. Every loss to the United States was judged as a triumph of negative football over beautiful football. Well last night deep in […]

July is definitely the calm before the storm in English football. Next month the transfer window opens. Plus we'll experience the start of a brand-new season, which I'm definitely excited about. But even in the calm of July, there's still plenty of news floating around from EPL Talk and its network of sites.Over at Major […]

The biggest news of the past 24 hours is that Manchester United has reportedly tabled an official £20 million bid for Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov. Problem is there's no evidence of an actual bid being made and all we have to go on is a quote from his agent in The Sun newspaper. What is […]

Grahame Jones of the LA Times reported earlier today that Jorge Vergara Chivas USA's part owner has arranged for a goalkeeper to join the Los Angeles based side from Saprissa, the CONCACAF Champions Cup runner ups which Vegara also owns. Keilor Navas Gamboa who is twenty one is the goalkeeper that Vergara was most likely […]

Beginning tomorrow, check back to Major League Soccer Talk after every Superliga match to get some comprehensive thoughts on each and every match in the richest North American club tournament.

Beginning tomorrow night and throughout Superliga we'll have instant match analysis on the main blog page here at CSRN's American Soccer Spot: at halftime and full-time of every game. The match reports will then be archived on our Superliga page which you can access from the tabs at the top of this website.

Birmingham City Founded: 1875 Nickname: Blues Ground: St. Andrews (30,000) Last Season: 19th in the English Premiership 35 points League Cup Winners: 1963 Second Division/CCC Winners: 1892/93, 1920/21, 1947/48, 1954/55 Third Division/ League One Winners: 1994/95

Each day I will be giving a quick snapshot of two CCC clubs to help familarize yourself with who will be batting it out to make it to the Englsih Premier League. Barnsley Formed: 1887 Nickname: The Tykes, The Reds Ground: Oakwell (23,009) Last Season: 18th in the CCC with 55 points FA Cup Winners: […]

Setanta North America has confirmed its first seven pre-season matches the network will be showing in the United States and Canada in the buildup to the new Premier League season. Five of the matches will be friendlies involving Liverpool and Sunderland, while the other two matches will bring us Aston Villa's 3rd round UEFA Intertoto […]

Darren Huckerby will be joining San Jose on July 15th. More on this story later in the day. Brian McBride's potential move to Chicago is on hold as Toronto who strangely holds McBride's MLS rights have balked at any combination of players or money that Chicago is willing to send to the Reds for the […]

In the UK, Sky Sports and Setanta Sports have announced their schedule of live games on TV for the first few months of the season, so we can now deduce which matches will be shown on Fox and Setanta Sports in the United States. More games will be announced soon, but what are your thoughts […]

Sky Sports and Setanta Sports today announced their schedule of live games on TV for the first few months of the season: Saturday, August 16 Arsenal v West Bromwich Albion, 12:45pm GMT, Sky Sports Sunderland v Liverpool, 5:30pm GMT, Setanta Sports Sunday, August 17 Chelsea v Portsmouth, 1:30pm GMT, Sky Sports Manchester United v Newcastle […]

Collection of 50 tobacco cards of famous footballers from 1939. The 1930's were the hey-dey for the hobby of collecting cigarette cards and vast amounts were produced especially of sport stars. This particular collection contains some beautifully colored photographs of footballers from the English leagues (pictured above). While the names of the clubs are familiar […]

Most of us would agree that Premier League clubs have sold out. Each year teams find new ways to cash in on our money by launching new football shirts, increasing ticket prices and selling overpriced souvenirs and merchandise. But are Premier League clubs really that different than other brands and forms of entertainment? Think about […]

Darren Huckerby the former Coventry, Manchester City and Norwich man will be able to sign with San Jose after all. Huckerby originally traveled to North America two weeks ago to join up the club that had filed a discovery claim with MLS on him: Toronto FC. But the saga to get us to the […]