It's early days, but I'm beginning to see a lot of worrying parallels between Blackburn manager Steve Kean and Sammy Lee, assistant manager at Liverpool. Lee was assistant manager at Bolton Wanderers for two years under Sam Allardyce. When Lee stepped up to become manager after Sam Allardyce left to join Newcastle United, Lee finally […]

There was another full programme of Championship football today in the New Year bank holiday fixtures that signal the end of football's busiest time of the year. At the top of the table Queens Park Rangers were held by an injury time equaliser at home to Bristol City, but with Swansea losing away to Leicester […]

SiriusXM (SIRI) today announced an agreement to broadcast all Premier League games featuring Manchester United via its radio, online and web apps. The first Manchester United match available to SiriusXM subscribers kicks off on January 4, 2011 when the Red Devils play home against Stoke City on Sirius channel 113 and XM channel 244 beginning […]

On June 28, 1981, more than 30,000 sports fans filled Wrigley Field to watch Chicago Sting play New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League (NASL). As you'll see from the above video, it was a highly entertaining game played in front of a passionate crowd on a hot summer's day in Chicago. Enjoy […]

Figured I'd ring in the new year by showing the goalkeepers some love. They deserve it once in a while right? Check out some of the top saves in this video. Here's the links: Cole backs Hodgson [FSC] Clubs waiting on Beckham [BBC] United to Wrigley Field [Hot Time In Old Town] Podcast [Opta Joke] […]

It was 2004 when I cut the cord from Bellsouth, my local phone company. I got rid of the landline and Internet access, and signed up with Comcast for my Internet access and Vonage for my VOIP phone line. Then a few years later, I cut the "virtual cord" and dropped Vonage so that my […]

Manchester United's kept their spot at the top of the league, no matter how many times Gary Neville tried to give it away. Macnehster City's even on points after their win over Blackpool, while Arsenal was convincing at a St. Andrews' Stadium that's often inhospitable to visitors. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, […]

How about a crossbar challenge to ring in the New Year! Enjoy and thanks for supporting the site see you in 2011! Here's the links: Top 10 moments of 2010 [Just-Football] Fantasy tips [FPL Transfers] Paul Konchesky talk [Live 4 Liverpool] Darren Gibson thoughts [ManUtd24] Football fights [Caught Offside] Top 100 players [The Footy Blog] […]

As yet another fantastic year of football comes to an end, I took a look at what made this year's highlight reel. Match Of The Year Tottenham 3-1 Inter Milan What a bloody match. As debutants of the world's finest European competition, Spurs were paired with last years champions Inter Milan, FC Twente and Werder […]

Now that Qatar has bought won the 2022 World Cup, what do we know about this tiny nation? Well, they are the home to the Al-Jazeera television network, they will host the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, and they are known as “Qataris” (“Qintendos” would have been a tad cooler). Also, Qatar is spelled Katar in […]

A photograph purportedly of Manchester United's home shirt for the 2011-12 season has been leaked on the Internet. The new Manchester United home jersey features a retro collar and an otherwise simple but appealing design. The retro collar reminds me of the classic Manchester United kit from 1978 (pictured). The 2011-2012 design by Nike also […]

Since I am currently on holiday with my family, I hadn't planned to do a second match review this week. However I caught the replay of yesterday's Chelsea-Bolton match, and thought I'd at least give the starting formation and a few thoughts. – This matchup of Bolton's 4-4-2 and Chelsea's 4-3-3 leads to the typical […]

Closing out a great 2010 of in U.S. Soccer, myself and Christopher Riordan close out a year's worth of podcasts with this Oscar-inspired awards show. One hour, 62 nominees and 20 awards honor out favorites films (teams), directors (coaches), actors (players) as well as moments from the last calendar year. We gave you a sneak […]

Happy New Year to all EPL lovers. I've written this weekly column from some interesting spots. This time from soccer-mad Mexico with an extremely dodgy internet connection. So no time for text per game, just the facts and the ratings. ESPN takes its outstanding production to the Hawthorns this week to follow United. On New […]

The commentator mash up of England's World Cup performance. Here's the links: Adam Johnson chat [Manchester Evening News] Star man report [Sky Sports] 3 Up Front podcast [Soccerlens] Sir Alex dishes out punishment [Dirty Tackle] Diaby injury blow [BBC] Asian Cup squads [World Cup Blog] Neil Young tribute [Manchester Evening News] Top 10 moments from […]