As each Premier League season unfolds, the league table begins to fashion specific mini-competitions within itself, all of them aiming to achieve certain goals. At the top there is the obvious and most talked about race for the title, at the bottom the drama-filled relegation action, and towards the middle the hunt for a shot […]

Barcelona was featured on CBS's 60 Minutes show Sunday night, the weekly TV show that is an institution on US television. In a rare appearance for soccer on a prime-time news show, 60 Minutes visited Barcelona's Camp Nou as well as the team's academy at La Masia. If you haven't watched the feature, be sure […]

It's been a busy morning for transfer news as Sky Sports are reporting that Chelsea is close to signing a new midfielder named Taison from FC Metalist. Meanwhile, West Ham have signed a Brazilian on loan, while Sunderland has signed a French midfielder. All of the news is below. Here are today's Premier League news […]

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has come out in defense of star striker Luis Suarez saying that it's not the job of the Uruguayan "to own up" to whether he handled the ball or not despite it being vividly clear that the footballer purposely handled the ball to help him knock Mansfield Town out of the […]

Major League Soccer is a league teeming with aspects that divide soccer fans and pundits to great lengths. These difference can become very petty at times, and can cause numerous fiery arguments that prevent fans from seeing eye-to-eye on the various facets of the US and Canada’s premier soccer league. One such mechanism that divides […]

We're starting a new feature on EPL Talk — a monthly book club selection where you, the reader, get to discuss a chosen book with fellow readers, as well as to increase your knowledge about the beautiful game and, when possible, chat with the author about the book of the month. For the first monthly […]

Luis Suarez has done it again. With the FA Cup match at 1-0 to Liverpool against Mansfield, and the Stags edging closer to causing a shock draw, the Uruguayan and Liverpool striker scored Liverpool's second goal Sunday. However, it was blatantly obvious that Luis Suarez handled the ball by batting it down after the Mansfield goalkeeper […]

After yesterday's shock wins for Macclesfield and Luton Town, there are still a couple of opportunities today for more shocks in the third round of the FA Cup. Swansea City plays Arsenal in the first game of the day (kick-off 8:30am ET on FOX Soccer in the United States) followed by Mansfield Town versus Liverpool […]

Mansfield Town, a club in the fifth tier of English football, displayed a lot of class this weekend when they decided to take 96 seats at their ground in Nottinghamshire and set them aside as a tribute to the 96 people who died as a cause of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. Mansfield plays Liverpool tomorrow […]

Footballers from Manchester United and Liverpool star in a new commercial from Chevrolet, the US car maker who is a sponsor of both American-owned football clubs. In the bizarre video, footballers such as Ryan Giggs, Jordan Henderson, Rio Ferdinand, Joe Allen, Paul Scholes, Jonjo Shelvey, Robin van Persie and Glen Johnson star. I think we […]

FOX today made history by televising the first-ever FA Cup match to be shown live on free-to-air television in the United States. The match between West Ham United and Manchester United lived up to its billing and featured plenty of goals, but how did the people behind the scenes and in front of the cameras […]

FA Cup fever is here. This is the Saturday of the season that, for many, is the one that we look forward to the most. And there are several potential shock results on the cards. For readers in the United States, here's the TV and Internet schedule for today: Saturday, January 5: Brighton vs Newcastle […]

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson came out on the offensive Friday to criticize Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy over the Spurs signing of Zeki Fryers, a former Manchester United youth academy footballer. Ferguson is incensed that Tottenham signed the player from Standard Liege in Belgium. Tottenham tried to sign the 20-year-old footballer in the summer, […]

I've lost count of the number of times that I've heard that the FA Cup deserves more respect from football supporters. In fact, I'd argue the opposite. It doesn't deserve more respect. If anything, it just deserves to be given a fair chance. Let me explain. I've found that a FA Cup weekend often separates soccer […]

Luka Modrić left Tottenham last summer for £33 million to Real Madrid. During the 2011/12 season, most avid Premier League watchers would agree that Modrić was one of the best, if not the best, passers in the game. His ability to spread the ball not only allowed him to pass the ball a total of […]