Glamour is not a word that will be used to describe Bolton’s clash with Stoke on Sunday but nevertheless it is still an incredibly important to both sides and could well be significant to how they fare this season. Based on league standings, which admittedly is something you never base a prediction on in the […]

Before FOX Sports World (now FOX Soccer) launched in 1997, the only way to watch live Premier League matches on a Saturday in the United States was via closed circuit TV. Every Saturday morning, I would drive the 32 miles from Wellington, Florida to Boca Raton to a British pub named The Ugly Duck (still […]

Manchester United's home shirt for the 2012-13 season will definitely generate a lot of opinion, thanks to a photo which has been leaked on the Internet. Man United's new home shirt is a tartan print featuring their dominant red with faint black lines. The tartan print is most probably a mark of honor to celebrate […]

Manchester United's away shirt for the 2012-13 Premier League season will be a blue and black tartan design — possibly to honor Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years in charge of the Old Trafford club. The leaked photo features Manchester United's away shirt with a v-neck collar. The rest of the shirt features no prominent designs, […]

If you live in the United States, hopefully you enjoyed an extra hour of sleep this morning to prepare for a very hectic day of Premier League soccer. Kicking off the day is Newcastle United against Everton. In the past few weeks, I've mentioned how Newcastle is becoming the second favorite club for many Premier […]

After the international break concludes, FC Dallas and US international midfielder Brek Shea will fly to England to train with Arsenal for one month with a view to a possible move. "Affording Brek the opportunity to continue to work on improving his game and measure himself among the best players in the world is something […]

httpv://youtu.be/i-jwClzsDog Tomorrow's clash between Liverpool and Swansea City will be the first time the two clubs have played each other in the league in 28 years. What I find interesting about tomorrow's game — and what has transpired in those 28 years — is that there's been a role reversal. Liverpool, in the late 70s […]

On the back of arguably their best result of the season so far, Newcastle United host Everton tomorrow (in the early kickoff) in their bid to make it 14 unbeaten in the Premier League. The Magpies climbed to third on Monday evening with a 3-1 away to Stoke City, condemning the hosts to their first […]

An interesting thing happened in the four Conference Semifinal showdowns: the team winning the first leg fended off their foes' stout challenges and advanced. Additionally, the higher seed went 3 out of 4 in the Semifinal round, leaving the top seeds from each Conference. We can address the efficiency of this generation of the playoff […]

David Beckham and LA Galaxy booked a place in the last four of the MLS Cup last night at the Home Depot Center. With two teams with great title expectations, It was Galaxy that came out on top. Red Bulls were without Rafa Marquez because of last Sunday’s heroics after he decided to throw the […]

“Fact Or Fiction” is a series that will be run every Friday. In this series, an assertion will be made regarding an impacting topic in the Premier League. EPL Talk writers Matt Hackenmiller and Earl Reed each offer their views on whether the statement is “Fact or Fiction.” Fact or Fiction: None of the newly promoted clubs will […]

Arsenal bouncing back, Newcastle remaining unbeaten, Spurs climbing the table. The APL continues to take shape, despite quiet weekends for the two Manchester sides. Arsenal are the week’s big movers after their big win at Chelsea. Despite scoring five times the winning margin was only two goals, but when the team in 11th beats the team […]

Times are tough in the office of Andre Villas-Boas. The troubles started on October 23 at 4:41pm at Loftus Road where the Blues were shown their second red card of the game against QPR and then finished the game by losing 1-0. Three days later they scraped through to the quarter finals of the Carling […]

Early this past Saturday I woke with a bewildered start to answer the phone. Confusion swiftly became anger; who was calling me at this inhuman hour? Anger turned to realization. It was my alarm. I lay there for a few moments in the pre-dawn chill, wondering if rising was worth it. Manchester United-Everton at 4 […]

"You know what you are. You know what you are, Anton Ferdinand. You know what you are." Those were the chants from a section of Chelsea fans in Genk during Tuesday night’s Champions League clash. Tell me it ain’t so. Someone wake me up. I just plunged into football apartheid. Okay, maybe that’s taking it […]