Joe Hart's triple save Monday night for Manchester City against Liverpool as well as his heroic saves for City against Tottenham Hotspur on the opening day of the season have been the difference for City thus far this season. City would definitely have lost against Spurs if it wasn't for Hart. And the scoreline in […]

Well Liverpool have certainly continued where last season finished for them, despite the removal of the dismal Rafa Benitez. Now, I'm not going to lie to you, I simply couldn't stand Benitez, his abysmal tactics and his continual blaming of everyone else for his own failings. I don't care about two fortunate cup victories that […]

Last week's Champions League qualifying encounter saw Werder Bremen smash their Italian opponents by a score of 3-1, thanks to goals from Fritz, Frings and Pizarro, and a lone Pazzini strike at the death to secure an away goal for Sampdoria. While Werder Bremen hold the advantage heading into the second-leg, they will need to […]

This week The FIFA inspection committee responsible for producing the report on all the possible host countries for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups visits England. The committee will be touring London, Manchester, Sunderland and Newcastle, inspecting stadia, looking at infrastructure, and getting charmed by David Beckham, Fabio Capello and Bobby Charlton. Many English […]

Germany's World Cup campaign was certainly an enjoyable one. Loew's side played an attacking brand of football that wowed audiences and stunned critics. The German national team hit four past Australia, England and Argentina; certainly a feat worth noting. What's most interesting is how the youth of the German national team showed that they can […]

Manchester City's match day experience is becoming more and more American with each new season. While Maine Road was what you could expect a typical British experience of what it was like to see an English football match in the 80s, the City of Manchester Stadium experience seems as American as apple pie. In previous […]

Blatter: An English World Cup Would Be "Easy" FIFA officials arrived in England today to begin their four-day inspection of their 2018 World Cup bid. The 1966 hosts received a boost from FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who said, "The easiest way to organize the World Cup is to go to England. Everything is there – […]

After watching his forlorn West Ham United side lose 3-1 against Bolton Wanderers this weekend, manager Avram Grant slammed the fans who booed their penalty-missing striker Carlton Cole. Whilst not possessing the goal-getting attributes of Wayne Rooney or Darren Bent, Cole has been a valuable striker for the Hammers, with 20 goals in 57 league […]

As the second weekend of Premier League football draws to a close the stories of the season start to take shape. Wigan are off to the worst start to a Premier League season ever with 2 home losses and 10 goals conceded without reply and Chelsea are off to one of the best, already 2 […]

Our Match of the Week was a letdown thanks to Newcastle United's revenge on Aston Villa, one of three 6-0 results in the second weekend of Premier League action. On this long edition of the EPL Talk Weekend Review Podcast, Laurence McKenna and myself talk about Chelsea's dominance, Manchester United's slip, and the rest of […]

You can't criticize the Premier League for one thing, and that's a lack of goals. The opening two weekends of the 2010-11 Premier League season have seen a cascade of goals flying into the back of the net. And it hasn't just been Chelsea and Arsenal getting in on the act. Even Blackpool and Newcastle […]

Sunday's Bundesliga matches saw Mainz host a Sami Khedira-less Stuttgart, and Bayer Leverkusen travel to Borussia Dortmund. Mainz, rather shockingly, dismissed Stuttgart by a scoreline of two goals to nil, which will not come as a welcome sign to the Stuttgart faithful who have failed to reinforce after losing both Aliaksandr Hleb and Sami Khedira […]

Chelsea weren't always the glamor club that they are today. In the late 70s and early 80s, they were the scourge of English football thanks to their hooligans who terrorized trains, city centres and stadiums around the country. They weren't the only troublemakers, but they were often the most feared. Searching through YouTube, I found […]

So William Gallas joins a very rare club indeed of players that have swapped Arsenal for Tottenham. I was stating the same to a friend the other day that I can't remember it happening in my lifetime as a Spurs fan, for me it's unique. I've seen it happen the other way twice, Pat Jennings […]

Hi. My name is Guy and I’m a Fantasy Premier League junkie. I haven’t looked at a form chart in 14 days (polite applause). How did it all start, my falling into the dementia of Fantasy Premier League? I was minding my own business….really. I had a subscription to ITVN (whoa….flashback!), which I had gotten […]