All the attention this week will be on Manchester United's FIFA Club World Cup matches in Japan, and Sunday's tantalizing Arsenal against Liverpool battle. But spare some thought for the matches on Saturday. On paper, it looks like it could be one of the most boring matchdays in the history of the Premier League. Here […]

Yesterday was a day of reckoning in the Premier League. Good news for Aston Villa. Bad news for Arsenal, West Bromwich Albion and Blackburn Rovers. In sport, there are miracles, but there's a reason they call them miracles. They happen too infrequently. So, unless any miracles happen in the next few weeks, here's what we […]

It was fitting that a game between two of the oldest clubs in English football, Everton and Aston Villa, would exemplify the best parts of the old-fashioned English game on Sunday at Goodison Park. In an unbelievable end to the match on Sunday, Everton equalized in the 93rd minute to make it 2-2 after Joleon […]

Anyone who witnessed the remarkable comeback win by Aston Villa over Everton on Sunday will have no doubt who scored a brace for Martin O'Neill's side. But The Daily Telegraph headline writers obviously do. Instead of crediting two goal hero Ashley Young, they mistakingly wrote that fellow teammate Luke Young scored. Anyone who has seen […]

In the 2006/2007 season, Watford finished on bottom of the Premier League with 28 points. While it looks like it'll be a while before Watford gets promoted from the Championship again given their current league form, the ghosts of Watford past are still alive and well in the Premier League today. There were two players […]

Number of days since an English football club scored a goal during Fox Soccer Channel's live soccer coverage on Saturdays: 14. We last saw a goal scored by an English team on Fox Soccer Channel on Saturday, November 15 when Nicolas Anelka knocked the final goal in for Chelsea against West Bromwich Albion. Since then […]

What a strange day it was in the Premier League on Saturday. Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United all failed to score. Aston Villa came within a whisker of beating Man United, which would have pushed them into third place. And Arsenal crumbled against Manchester City. In the closest Premier League season ever, who would have […]

Throughout the season, the Premier League keeps track of which clubs have the best behaved fans as well as the worst behaved fans. Last year, Chelsea was voted the worst behaved fans especially because of the way they abused Avram Grant most of the season, but so far this season they've zoomed up the charts […]

The Tokyo Toffeeman has graciously agreed to host the EPL Talk Chat today. Join him and other fans online right now as they dissect the Arsenal against Aston Villa match, as well as Manchester United versus Stoke City and more.

Which Premier League club has the highest percentage of foreigners? Who has the youngest squad? And who has the oldest squad? Read the following top 10 statistics to find the answers to those questions and many more. Oldest squad: Hull City, average age 27.48 years Player to have spent the most number of seasons at […]

If you have a few minutes to spare, be sure to read these excellent articles: A rare one-on-one interview with Alex Ferguson (The Times). Lots of pearls of wisdom in this interview including the story about how Fergie now stops praying for his club to win as well as one of the two footballers Ferguson […]

Don't forget that this Sunday morning the clocks are going back one hour in England, which means that all games between Sunday and November 2nd will be shown one hour later than usual for those of us watching from the United States. The games will return to their regularly scheduled time difference on November 2nd […]

UEFA held the draw for the UEFA Cup group stage today and some fascinating pairings emerged. Both Martin Jol and Steve McClaren will take their new clubs back to England as FC Twente will face Manchester City and Jol's Hamburg will take on Aston Villa. This year's groups are looking really tough and the field […]

Follow West Ham United against Bolton Wanderers live and online today via the EPL Talk Chat featuring football fans discussing the match from around the world. We will also keep you up to date on all games on this Sunday including the big one at Stamford Bridge. Can Aston Villa end the Chelsea streak (this […]

Say what you will about Maradona — he never put on a suit. Michel Platini on the other hand is on one hell of a roll at the moment. Earlier this week, he went off Arsene Wenger as if the man had murdered half his family, instead of appointing youngters to play at the highest […]