Newcastle United has unveiled their new away shirt for the 2008/2009 season. Modeled by Michael Owen, the blue shirt is designed in the new Adidas template. While the new Newcastle United kit looks attractive, it looks similar to Chelsea's new home shirt although the blues are definitely different shades. Thanks to Football Shirts for the […]

Sky Sports has announced its schedule of televised Championship matches for the first few months of the 2008/2009 season. Here's the schedule: Sunday, August 10: Nottingham Forest v Reading Saturday, August 16: Bristol City v Derby County Saturday, August 30: Watford v Ipswich Saturday, October 4: Coventry City v Southampton Saturday, October 25: Reading v […]

Fans of association football will have all experienced this at one time or another. When watching a match on TV, there's a specific camera angle that's diagonal to the goal where it looks like the ball is going near the net, only to find out that the ball goes up and is sent in the […]

The first person who emails a PDF of issue number two of the EPL Talk Magazine to me at thegaffer[at]epltalk[dot]com will receive their very own EPL Talk T-shirt (pictured; blonde not included). As soon as I receive it, I'll update this post. So if you see no note here, then you still have a chance […]

First of all, let me say what a super performance Germany gave last night. They tactically outclassed Portugal from the get go and thoroughly deserved their win. Anyway, enough of yesterday, now for today's big clash. Before yesterday, I'd have put my house on Croatia winning this game, now I'm not so sure I don't […]

(World Cup Qualifier Caps and Goals in Parenthesis) GOALKEEPERS (3): Dominic Cervi (out of contract: 0/0), Brad Guzan (Chivas USA: 1/1 SO), Chris Seitz (Real Salt Lake: 0/0) DEFENDERS (6): Carlos Bocanegra (out of contract: 12/1), Dan Califf (FC Midtjylland: 1/0), Jay DeMerit (Watford FC: 0/0), Drew Moor (FC Dallas: 0/0) Oguchi Onyewu (Standard de […]

Time shifting, the recording of programming to watch or listen to later at a more convenient time, has changed the way we consume media, but I believe it's also led to the increased popularity of soccer worldwide. Out of all of the Premier League, Euro 2008 and Champions League soccer that you watch, how much […]

Jared Jeffrey Has Signed with a Club in Belgium Chad Barrett had two appalling first half misses yesterday for Chicago in their 2-0 loss to Chivas USA. But Barrett along with team mates John Thorrington and Chris Rolfe have been called into the national team. Sacha Kljestan and Brad Guzan return to the team as […]

The only thing stopping Cristiano Ronaldo from becoming a Real Madrid player is Manchester United themselves. In his body language and in the words he says, it's so apparent that Ronaldo wants to join Real Madrid. It's always been his desire to play in Spain, so if the opportunity comes along he's going to try […]

La Liga Talk writer Jose Maria Malo de Molina Galan had the chance to interview Guillem Balague recently. Balague, for those of you who don't know, is an accomplished writer, author and broadcaster who is an expert on Spanish football and recently launched his own web site at http://www.guillembalague.com Sorry for the sound quality, but […]

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It's been a good week for EPL Talk. We broke the 500 barrier in terms of number of RSS subscribers (see screenshot above). We were ranked the number one soccer blog for several days this week by Ballhype. And we were interviewed on the homepage of the Euro 2008 Statistics website as well as touted […]

If you happen to notice a sense of relief coming from ESPN in the last few days, there is a reason for it. It's because, while they are not coming in World Cup numbers, viewers are tuning in to the network's broadcasts of Euro 2008. ESPN announced today that, for the 15 Euro 2008 matches […]

The details of the squad the US will travel with to Barbados this weekend for the second leg of their World Cup qualifying tie has been pretty fairly mum. Snooping around South Florida soccer circles while the National Team is in town I can report that several players will be called in to the team […]

The details of the squad the US will travel with to Barbados this weekend for the second leg of their World Cup qualifying tie has been pretty fairly mum. Snooping around south Florida soccer circles while the National Team is in town I can report that several players will be called in to the team […]