Chelsea strolled to a comfortable win away from home Wednesday in their opening game of the 2010-11 Champions League journey. Despite some early scares in the game, Chelsea were soon able to cruise to victory thanks to goals from Michael Essien (again), two from Nicolas Anelka and one from Daniel Sturridge. Despite the scoreline, MSK […]

Sir Alex Ferguson made ten changes from Saturday's 3-3 draw away to Everton in hopes what was essentially his Carling Cup squad could see off Scottish champions Rangers last time out. A dour 0-0 draw at home is what played out on Tuesday night to open Champions League group stage play while those ten changes got me thinking about the […]

CL Highlights: Arsenal/Braga Arsenal began their 2010-11 Champions League campaign with a home match against SC Braga. Rather than ruin some of the reader's day by providing a spoiler of what happened, feel free to watch the highlights of the game in the above video. Share your observations about the game and the highlights in […]

The Champions League group stage has kicked off, and unfortunately the Bundesliga's representatives in the tournament performed quite poorly despite a 2-0 win over Roma for Bayern Munich. Besides Bayern Munich's win, Schalke lost away to Lyon, and Werder Bremen only picked up a point at home to Tottenham. Bayern Munich's Hans-Jorg Butt gets my […]

In the latest episode of our sister show, the MLS Talk Podcast, host Richard Farley interviews Dermot McQuarrie (pictured, right) of Fox Sports International. Many of you may remember McQuarrie as a regular guest on the EPL Talk Podcast where he has appeared each year to discuss the latest developments regarding Fox Soccer Channel's programming. […]

Tim Wiese was criticized by retired goalkeeper Jens Lehmann after his part in Werder Bremen's 2-2 draw with Tottenham on Tuesday night. Lehmann was number one for Germany for many years, and was one of the top goalkeepers in Europe during his time. Lehmann has been decorated with countless honours, including a Serie A title […]

Louis van Gaal's men showed fierce determination to break down an extremely defensive Roma side who barely put a pass forward throughout the match. Late goals from Thomas Mueller and Miroslav Klose dispatched the Italian outfit and put Bayern Munich in prime position for a spot in the round of sixteen. Bayern Munich dominated possession […]

Louis van Gaal's Bayern Munich reached the Champions League final last year which they unfortunately lost to Jose Mourinho's Inter side, but will be looking to kick off this season's European campaign with three points against a very strong Roma outfit. Van Gaal will expect his side to go out and win on home turf, […]

This has been a strange week as there are a good six weeks remaining in the MLS regular season. The playoff race has been tightening up and at the moment the Western Conference teams will have the majority before the final weekend of October comes around since it looks like both Columbus and New York […]

EA Sports today launched the demo version of FIFA 11 to soccer fans around the globe. The full playable demo is available in a version for the PC. You can download the zipped file by clicking the button below. Or, you can download it directly from the FIFA 11 website. A FIFA 11 demo was […]

Amazing that just four matches deep into the new Premier League season “Berbaflop” has seemingly replaced the all-action Wayne Rooney as Manchester United’s favored striker. On Saturday Sir Alex Ferguson was taking flak for omitting Rooney from his teamsheet and at some cost, United relinquishing a 3-1 lead at Goodison Park to allow Everton to […]

The Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (PES 2011) demo launched today for the PC. The free game is available now for downloading at www.pes2011.com In addition to changing commentators from Jon Champion to Jim Beglin, new features include: Total Control Shot & Stamina Gauge New Defender AI Improved Goalkeepers Animation and Player Physics Stadium Editor Speed […]

Dermot McQuarrie is the Assistant General Manager, Senior Vice-President, Production & Programming at Fox Sports International. Last week the Fox executive joined me to talk about his channel's programming, with specific emphasis on the network's Major League Soccer package, the goals of (and feedback on) Soccer Talk Live, and plans for their Premier League and […]

Claude Puel's men hosted desperate Bundesliga side Schalke with three points and a positive Champions League start in sight. Unfortunately for Magath, another pointless start has been the order of the day after a hard fought match in France. After what has been an absolutely awful domestic start for Schalke, which has yielded zero points […]

Bundesliga big-boys Werder Bremen hosted English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur, who notoriously broke the 'Top Four' trend in England last season which had previously consisted of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool consecutive top four league finishes consecutively for the past seven years. Werder Bremen fielded a depleted back-line and it immediately showed against […]