Earlier this week, The Independent newspaper in England announced that the Premiership has grown so much in popularity that it now has 160 million viewers in 202 countries. Just for the Arsenal against Man United match, the UK TV audience was up to 6 million people.While the game is growing in popularity in the States, […]

Sunday's win by Arsenal over Manchester United was the best thing that could have happened to the Premiership. You can hear it in the podosphere and read it in the blogs and message forums. People are actually getting really excited about the Premier League all of a sudden.While there have been several highlights during the […]

In another example of excellent investigative journalism from The Times newspaper, their chief sports reporter Owen Slot recently wrote a series of articles about the state of the football academy system in England. While some of may not care about academies, the ramifications of the current state of them will have a profound impact on […]

Well folks, we now have a four horse race instead of a two horse race. After Liverpool and Arsenal both upset Chelsea and Manchester United respectively, the Premiership title race has gotten a lot more interesting all of a sudden.Looking ahead at the fixtures for the four clubs for the remainder of the season, a […]

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Sky Sports reports that Chelsea have become the latest club to fancy Oguchi Onyewu. Should Gooch end up at Chelsea or even Lyon who are also said to be chasing him he will be the first American field player on truly high profile team in a top European league since Claudio Reyna played for Rangers […]

Bruce Arena and Eric Wynalda in the same booth? This should be a real doosie...... I didn't understand ESPN 2's profile on Jimmy Conrad. It was totally incomplete. Okay it was a teaser but didn't appear that way. Rob Stone calling these games make them seem like the inconsiquental friendlies that they are. The choice […]

Congratulations to Rafa Benitez and the Liverpool squad for getting the victory they deserved today. Rafa got his formation right by sticking with a 4-4-2 instead of his usual 4-5-1 against Chelsea, and the combination of Peter Crouch and Dirk Kuyt up front paid dividends for the Spanish manager.Drogba must be kicking himself for missing […]

Jeff Carlisle has an excellent column at Soccernet.com: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=400435&root=us&cc=5901 Ives Galarcep on the importance of the match: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=400533&root=us&cc=5901

To mark the 80 year anniversary of the first football commentary, BBC Five Live Sports Extra this weekend will be conducting the commentary in the style of 1927 instead of 2007.They'll be using four commentators. Former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson will comment on Arsenal. Musician and singer David Gray will focus on Manchester United. John […]

The Home Depot Center will on Saturday host the US National Team's first outing since the World Cup last summer and the first match under the direction of new head man Bob Bradley. Since this game is not being held on a FIFA sanctioned international friendly date players from many of the major leagues in […]

The Premiership announced yesterday record breaking TV rights deals around the world for the 2007/2008 through 2009/2010 seasons worth 2.7 billion GBP, which is $5.3 billion. This means more money will be spread amongst all of the teams next season with the title winner collecting at least $98 million, while the bottom place team will […]

If you remember back to the last time Chelsea played Liverpool, the goal that separated the two sides was a wonderful twist and volley by Didier Drogba back on September 17th. Liverpool dominated most of the first half and hit the crossbar, but their finishing wasn't clinical in front of goal.In some ways, not much […]

By John NicholsonI am an optimist by nature. To me the glass is always half full, and even if it's half empty, I will have enjoyed drinking it. I don't buy into the pervading culture of cynicism that is so fashionable in some circles. Books such as "Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?" […]

Without a doubt, this weekend's matches between the top four are mouthwatering. Sure, big clashes like Liverpool against Chelsea, and Arsenal versus Manchester United usually don't live up to expectations, but with so much to play for, I have a feeling that this weekend will be different.Arsenal couldn't have picked a better time to be […]