Football press conferences are usually quite predictable affairs with the manager trotting out the usual clichés and obfuscation in response to the same old questions from the press. They are rarely places to deploy an extended metaphor but someone must have forgotten to tell Rafa Benitez because his latest comments about his time at Liverpool […]

Five years ago this November, EPL Talk was born. To celebrate our five-year anniversary, we're doing something unconventional. We're handing over the keys of the kingdom to you. Between now and November, you can suggest what stories you'd like us to write about. Then the best ideas will be narrowed down for the readers of […]

I was saddened to hear this past weekend that Malcolm Allison, the legendary former manager of Manchester City, passed away at the age of 83. No one apart from Brian Clough summed up 70s and 80s English football better than Malcolm Allison. He was always a joy to listen to on television and his clubs […]

Bobby Charlton and the Manchester United team star in a new television commercial for Turkish Airlines. Typically we don't run commercials on this site, but this is definitely a well produced and imaginative ad that features the entire team such as Edwin van der Sar, Wayne Rooney, Patrice Evra, John O'Shea, the da Silva twins, […]

Earlier today Sir Alex Ferguson conducted a press conference where he revealed that Wayne Rooney wants to leave Manchester United. In the above video, the unusually solemn Ferguson recounts his side of the story in terms of Rooney's injury and what the club has done to help and support him. He talks about how he […]

Louis van Gaal will be looking to build off of a great 3-0 win over Hannover on the weekend tonight against Cluj. Three points most certainly means a place in the round of sixteen, so a win is definitely the priority here for the Bavarian side. Die Roten will undoubtedly be favourites, but with their […]

Football supporters are already beginning to have a bit of fun at the prospect of Wayne Rooney leaving Old Trafford. And it looks like one of them is already one step ahead of Manchester City with this proposed billboard (Tevez style) that could adorn the entrance to the northern city. So far it seems that […]

Sir Alex Ferguson has today revealed that Wayne Rooney wants to leave Manchester United. The shock announcement will set the transfer rumour mill in to overdrive but where is the most likely destination for the England striker? Manchester City The very thought of Rooney in a sky blue shirt is probably enough to make most […]

I'm sure most Middlesbrough fans are pleased that Gordon Strachan has resigned and walked away without compensation. Our league position tells its own story. It plainly wasn't working and his increasingly eccentric media interviews revealed a man who looked to be under intense pressure. This didn't stop a majority of the fans from turning against […]

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party held their annual conference recently. Top of the agenda was selecting a new leader to take charge of the party as it begins to rebuild in the shadow of the ruling Conservative/Liberal-Democrat coalition government. Intriguingly, the race came down to two brothers, David and Ed Miliband, with the younger Ed edging his elder to […]

Is a blue moon rising for Wayne Rooney? For Manchester United and its supporters, it was a week they would rather forget. It began on March 30, 2010 when Wayne Rooney limped off with an ankle injury after Bayern Munich scored an injury-time winner during the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final. While the German […]

While Real Salt Lake and Seattle were affirming their places as the league's form teams, Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York were dealt setbacks. On this edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast, myself and Christopher Riordan take inventory of the league with one week left in the regular season.

In goal, I've got Frankfurt's Oka Nikolov. The Macedonian shot stopper saved a potentially game changing penalty against Kaiserslautern when the scores were still level. While he wasn't troubled too much other than that penalty incident, he was pretty confident and composed when dealing with crosses and through-balls. At right-back, I've got Hoffenheim defender Andreas […]

The last time I attended a Major League Soccer game was nine years ago when San Jose Earthquakes beat Miami Fusion 1-0 in South Florida to advance to the 2001 MLS Cup Final. Although we didn't know it at the time, the game ended up being Miami's last ever MLS appearance. It also marked my […]

Beginning today, Fox Soccer Channel has made significant changes to its primetime viewing schedule to focus more on the Premier League and Champions League while pushing other shows such as Soccer Talk Live to late-night viewing times. The new schedule features a three-hour block of Premier League programming from 7-10pm ET each weekday evening. Then […]