Tried listening to the BBC Five Live live broadcast from work a few minutes ago to listen to the Germany v Costa Rica match, but alas — for those souls outside of the UK, like me — the Beeb doesn't have rights to broadcast the match overseas. Probably the worst place in the world to […]

Blogger.com was down yesterday so I apologize for not getting this on the site until this morning June 24th Germany beats Paraguay Mexico beats Argentina June 25th England beats Poland Portugal beats Ivory Coast June 26th Italy beats Australia France beats Spain June 27th Brazil beats USA Ukraine beats Switzerland June 30th Germany beats Mexico […]

There's no better time to be a football fan than right now. On the eve of the World Cup, the choices of what to watch and read are almost endless. For example, you' have to read this one about the battle between Adidas and Puma, and how it's split a German town in two, literally. […]

England – Paul Robinson By The Scout With all of the fuss and furor surrounding young Mr Rooney's metatarsal, as well as coach Sven Goran Eriksson's tactics and team selection, little focus has been paid to one of the main sources of recent English failures at the big tournaments — goalkeeping. Going back to 2002 […]

Manchester United fan Justin Franklin fashions the EPL Talk T-shirt. Interested in getting your own? Listen to the EPL Talk Podcast interview with Soccer Shout to find out how you can win one.

A whole nation rejoiced when this picture was broadcast earlier today. Wayne Rooney has been declared fit and will play in Germany, though his status for Saturday's opener versus Paraguay is still up in the air. With Rooney's return England must be considered among the favorites to win the World Cup. My predictions will be […]

I must apologize since I have been busy the past few days I was not able to fully research Group H completely enough to be comfortable to do a full preview. However I do like the Ukraine and Spain to advance with Tunisia possibly giving an out of form and somewhat erratic Spanish squad run […]

While Fox Soccer Channel won't be broadcasting any of the World Cup matches, the soccer network is busy providing coverage to you. On TV, the channel debuts a new program starting Thursday, June 8th at 8pm ET (and broadcasting each night throughout the tournament at that same time). Ticket To Germany will provide daily news, […]

Germany – Lukas Podolski By The Scout This player is an obvious but a very necessary choice. Having just turned 21 recently, Lukas is now set to star for Germany at this year's World Cup. He spent last season at FC Cologne but after they were relegated from the Bundesliga, he was sold to Bayern […]

The Guardian newspaper ran an interesting article about America and the World Cup yesterday. In it, reporter Steven Wells revealed the interesting split between those die-hard soccer fans and the mainstream. Interestingly, I wrote a similar piece for EPL Talk Magazine (which was just released last night and is a free download). If you live […]

ALL GAMES AVAILIBLE IN HD FRIDAY JUNE 9TH 11:55 am Germany vs Costa Rica ESPN 2 Dave O'Brien and Marcelo Balboa 2:55 pm Poland vs Ecuador ESPN2 Adrian Healey and Tommy Smith SATURDAY JUNE 10TH 9 am England vs Pargauay ABC Dave O'Brien and Mareclo Balboa 11:30 am Trinidad vs Sweden ABC JP Dellacamera and […]

In an ironic move, former U.S. National Team defender and current LA Galaxy GM, Alexi Lalas fired his former U.S. Men's National Team Coach, Steve Sampson. I guess winning the MLS Cup last year wasn't enough for Sampson. Yes, the Galaxy are struggling this year but this move smacks of a personal vendetta against Sampson […]

Yahoo Sports has a good feature on Eddie Johnson. How do you beat Brazil? SI's Gabrielle Marcotti has some answers.

In interesting news, Graham Bell and Gazza Richards from The 2 G's have launched their own new soccer radio channel entitled Champions Soccer Radio Network. The 24/7 station is available as a streaming broadcast over the Internet at http://www.the2gs.com The network is currently airing The 2 G's, The Treble and select EPL Talk podcasts. […]

France has experienced opposite extremes in the past two World Cup finals. In 1998 the French did double, both hosting the event and winning it. Two years later this the greatest generation of French Soccer won the European Championships. France entered the 2002 finals as a co-favorite but instead provided no offensive punch and embarrassing […]