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/ 5987 days ago

Poll: Should ESPN Display A Ticker During Premier League Matches?

Do you think ESPN2 should display the BottomLine Ticker during Premier League matches?(polling) Love it or hate it, ESPN2 has been featuring their BottomLine ticker on the bottom of their Premier League broadcasts during the 2009-2010 season. But should it stay or should it go? Click the above poll to vote and click the comments […]

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/ 5987 days ago

A Tale Of Three Penalties

It was an amusing night for most of us. 61 minutes into the match at Upton Park, Matthew Upson brings down Daniel Sturridge in the box. Our Football Channel pundits for the night, Trevor Sinclair and Carlton Palmer, voiced their disagreements at the end of the night. Both of them felt that because Mike Dean […]

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/ 5987 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: A Look At Slovenia

We get an up close look at Slovenia the nation and football side from Robert Porderos of the Slovenian Press Agency. Hear about the reaction to World Cup Qualification in the Balkan Nation, as well as details about the nation and football in Slovenia.

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/ 5987 days ago

What Is This Current Manchester United Team Capable Of?

I sat utterly bemused Saturday as I watched Manchester United altogether inept in front of goal away to their current bogey ground, Craven Cottage. Manchester United lost their second out of the last three matches and fifth league match of the year to Fulham 3-0, a scoreline that flatters the current champions as it could […]

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Ref Mike Dean Teaches West Ham and Chelsea A Penalty Lesson

Anyone who watched the London derby between West Ham United and Chelsea would have been bemused to see referee Mike Dean make Frank Lampard take his penalty kick three times in a row before he awarded the goal. During the first two kicks, Dean ruled that both Chelsea and West Ham players ran into the […]

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/ 5988 days ago

Richard Dunne Shows Manchester City What They Need

During the takeover of Manchester City last summer, City's Chief Executive, Gary Cook made several rather tasteless comments but one stood out above all the others for me. During an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Cook was outlining City's plan for world domination. As Wednesday's defeat at Tottenham showed, sometimes things don't go to plan. […]

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/ 5988 days ago

Javier Mascherano and Samir Nasri Should Hang Their Heads In Shame

There's no doubt that the Premier League season is heating up. The last few weeks have been extremely entertaining. And, for the casual observer, it's wonderful to see the Big Four teams getting beat. But there were two incidents on Saturday that I found deplorable. The first was Javier Mascherano's horror tackle on Portsmouth's Tal […]

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Hughes Sacking Again Shows Garry Cook Does Not Understand Football

Mark Hughes sacking by Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi based ownership group has been reportedly pushed for weeks by club Chief Executive Garry Cook. Cook, the former Nike Executive who claimed dumping the Citizens best player of the past five years (Richard Dunne) was about shirt sales, again demonstrated his naivety about English football with this […]

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Manchester City Lose Patience With Mark Hughes

So it's official now, Manchester City's owners have shown there true colours with yesterdays sacking of Mark Hughes and replacing him with Roberto Mancini. Rumours had been circling Hughes since Saturday morning, with several British papers stating that the game against Sunderland was to be his last. The board of Manchester City can no longer […]

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Newcastle V Middlesbrough Preview: The Biggest North East Derby Of The Season

Apologies for a lack of updates lately, with the amount of work I’ve been doing lately my life mirrors the 'congested holiday fixture list'! Unfortunately this weekend we have once again discovered that the UK is the only country more efficient in a world war than being in a snow 'storm'. Early season promotion favourites […]

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/ 5989 days ago

New Features at MLS Talk

Beginning this Monday, we will have a weekly wrap up covering the play of footballers expected to feature for the United States' group opponents in South Africa. Many other websites do an outstanding job of covering the US team and Yanks Abroad, but nobody covers the opposition as well as perhaps they should be covered. […]

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La Liga US TV Listings for Jornada 15: Dec. 19 and Dec. 20

This weekend signals the last round of fixtures for the 2009 calendar year. As the players are yearning for the Christmas break to earn some much needed rest and the managers and owners are filling out their transfer wish list for Papá Noel, Round 15 provides interesting if not necessarily marquee matches. The game of […]

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/ 5990 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: ESPN Personalities thoughts on draw PT II

Former Premier League footballers and current commentators Steve McManaman and Efan Ekoku give their thoughts on the World Cup draw. Hear Ekoku's thoughts on the host nation and McManaman discuss who could surprise next summer. Be sure not to miss a single episode of the EPL Talk Podcast, the only Premier League interview show on […]

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/ 5990 days ago

Music And Football – The Ability To Unite

There's been a lot of chatter here recently on EPL Talk about different cultures, stereotypes (good or bad), likes and dislikes, etc. Since it's all opinion in the end, let's see if we can't spread a little love 'round these here parts, if not for your fellow man, then for none other than the spirit […]

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/ 5990 days ago

Suggested soccer books by American writers

I've read each of the following books and suggest them for holiday gifts. Love and Blood at the World Cup/Jamie Trecker The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro/ Joe McGinniss How Soccer Explains the World/Franklin Foer Soccer in a Football World/David Wangerin Girls of Summer/Jere Longman