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Does Anyone Want La Liga TV Rights In The United States?

GolTV's contract to show La Liga matches in the United States ends this season, but the big question is whether GolTV or another broadcaster will pick up the rights for next season. La Liga Talk received an anonymous rumor this week stating that GolTV has entered a bid to renew the TV rights but MediaPro, […]

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Avoiding Eurosnobbery

Eurosnoberry is found throughout the English language football press. While most commentators who work for English language mediums have inherent biases some are actually better than others. Other European based press is equally bad if not worse than the English language press. In the UK based press, The Guardian Unlimited makes an effort on its […]

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John Utaka Launches Premier League Game Show In Nigeria

In another example of how popular the Premier League is worldwide, Portsmouth forward John Utaka is hosting a new game show in Nigeria entitled the "John Utaka Premier League Challenge TV Quiz show." The show was unveiled this past Friday in Lagos, and will run on most Nigerian TV stations. The concept of the game […]

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Bundesliga: FC Bayern’s loss keeps the Title Race interesting

For the first time since 2001 the younger Hoeneß won the Manager Derby against his brother. Hertha winning against Bayern was a good feeling made even better by being able to take over the Tabellenspitze. The last time Hertha was top of the table was in October 2006. Last season after Matchday 23 Hertha was sitting […]

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The Beckham Saga: Eurosnoberry 201

Our good friend Nordecke Luchador of Columbus Crew fame has penned a worthy successor to our column from yesterday. Check it out here.

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EPL Talk Podcast: John Kerr Interview

John Kerr Interview On Episode 111 of the EPL Talk Podcast, Johnathan Starling interviews John Kerr, the first American to play in the old English first division. We discuss what it was like to be a kid around the New York Cosmos during the days of Pele, what made him decide to play college soccer […]

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Cahill Does It Again, FA Cup Draw Thoughts, And Other Premier League News

Is there anything Tim Cahill can't do? Tim Cahill's week defines the word jet lag. From Liverpool to Japan for a World Cup Qualifier. His performance for Australia wasn't exactly great, then again neither was Australia's. Cahill had to be thankful Everton's FA Cup tie against Aston Villa was on Sunday, I don't think he […]

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Serie A Roundup – Week 24

Week 24 of the Serie A featured two massive top of the table matchups. The headliner of course being the Derby della Madonnina. The Milan derby was an exciting match with its share of controversy. Adriano's opening goal was clearly a handball that went past Milan keeper Christian Abbiati. Dejan Stankovic put a one-timer past […]

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Is Michael Owen Past It?

The question is simple. Can Michael Owen still perform at the highest level? While many would say no, he’s past it, he’s too injury prone and when he is on the pitch he doesn’t do anything anyway, I tend to disagree. Yes Michael Owen is injury prone, it’s been well documented. Over the course of […]

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Serie A Makes A Return To Britain With Inter vs Milan

With a current drought of goals in the English Premier League and the traditional top four of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Man United all stumbling, England finally have a chance this evening to watch what should be end to end top drawer football with the arrival of Serie A calcio to their shores. That's right […]

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The Beckham Saga: Eurosnobbery 101

Eurosnobs have taken control of English language world football. Between the media whose primary focus is European leagues and European World Cup qualifying ( Tim Vickery of the BBC, and Martin Rogers of Yahoo! are very notable exceptions to this unfortunate trend.) and newly minted football fans in English speaking countries whose sole focus and […]

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Genoa vs Fiorentina LIVE Second Half Action

In the battle of topscorers with Diego Milito on 14 goals, and Alberto Gilardino on 14 goals, today's contest is off to a flying start after the one-two partnership of Genoa's Tiago Motta and Diego Milito have made it advantage Genoa 1-0 within the first 12 minutes. LIVE Updates at Yahoo UK

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Special 1 TV: Wenger Gives Arshavin An Arse-Shavin

For those of you who haven't seen the second episode of Special 1 TV from last week, it's a classic. Jose plays word games with Wenger, which results in Wayne Rooney requiring medical attention. Plus there are a bunch of other hilarious gags in this episode. Enjoy.

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Samba Saves Blackburn Blushes

Blackburn Rovers have to consider themselves fortunate they are looking at a Ricoh Arena replay instead of losing in front of the most faithful of the faithful at Ewood Park. After Roque Santa Cruz put Blackburn ahead inside of ninety seconds, two second half goals from the Sky Blues should have been enough. But the […]

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Major League Soccer Talk Podcast #64: US-Mexico Wrap

Mario Valdez who covers Yanks Abroad and Mexican Football for the show and podcast joins us to recap the US victory over Mexico in Columbus. MLS Talk 64: US-Mexico Wrap