Since 1996, every Championship Trophy and FA Cup has rested in the trophy case of either Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea or Liverpool with one singular exception. All 30 of those pieces of silverware have gone to the Big Four except for the 2008 FA Cup, which has been ensconced in a sacred place at […]

Chelsea has increased their lead atop the Premier League, Tottenham is back in fourth place, while Everton gets three more points from one of the league's leaders. On this edition of the EPL Talk Podcast, analysts Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer join host Richard Farley to discuss the weekend's results. Don’t forget that the EPL […]

To me, the first half had three major themes. First, Nani wasting cross after cross, either sending them directly at Dida, or shockingly wide. Second, Beckham was largely absent from the first half, never doing anything dangerous. Third, if Beckham was “largely” absent, was Pirlo “utterly” absent? “Completely” absent? “Altogether” absent? “Fully” absent? I am not sure he had a touch in the first half.

If he is on the plane to South Africa this summer, Charlie Davies will be the story of the tournament. It was only four months ago that Davies was in a horrific car accident that killed one passenger and savaged Davies’ body. His face was smashed, leg and arm broken, and bladder lacerated. There […]

Shaka Hislop currently works as an analyst for ESPN, but before that he was a goalkeeper for Newcastle United, West Ham United, Reading, and Portsmouth. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, the Trinidand and Tobago international – who represented that country at the 2006 World Cup – joins The Gaffer during ESPN's Super […]

You may know Steve Davis from his contributions to ESPN's Soccernet or his blog Daily Soccer Fix. On this episode of the Major League Soccer Talk podcast, Steve joins me to talk about some of the interesting stories from around the league ahead of next month's anticipated start, but for the better part of the […]

Looking back on the mid-week action for Premier League sides in Champions League, Europa, and within the Premiership, analysts Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer join host Richard Farley on this edition of the EPL Talk podcast. Topics: Arsenal's 2-1 loss at Porto and the circumstances behind each curious goal allowed by the Gunners, Manchester United's […]

On Monday afternoon the Premier League announced that it’s in discussion with all 20 teams on the possibility of a 4-team play-off for the final Champions League spot. The Premier League see this as opportunity to make the league more competitive, as 5 of the last 6 seasons have seen the so called ‘big four’ […]

We could see the goal coming. Rosicky tore down the right side while our defense struggled to get back into position. His cross was going nowhere but to Diaby's head which had no one marking it. Diaby knocked the ball past Pepe and the Gunners were up. Liverpool had done so well to absorb Arsenal attacks for 70-plus minutes, […]

There's got to be some rules here folks. I'm a fan of lists. If you can rank it, categorize it, number it, subdivide it, label it, then I'm usually interested. Every December I rank the top ten albums of that particular year and I'm constantly trying to re-work, re-figure and re-align my top ten films […]

There is some major news coming from my good friend Duane Rollins up in Toronto. From his 24th Minute blog he has received inside information that progress is being made between the players union and the league with the new deadline looming for this Friday of a possible strike, lockout, or another extension to avoid […]

Key fixtures at the Emirates, Goodison, and Villa Park bring Laurence McKenna and Richard Farley together for a mid-week review show. In addition to the results and their implications on the Premier League table, Laurence and Richard talk about the crisis at Portsmouth and the conflict between boardroom and manager at West Ham. Don’t forget […]

Fulham manager Roy Hodgson put an early bug in Mohamed Al Fayed's ear for coinage toward the’10-’11 season. After reading about it and watching his current patchwork team, decimated by injuries, put together two wins and a draw while keeping three clean sheets in a row- in addition to morphing/improving steadily over the course of […]

It's hard to know how to call this match. On one hand Liverpool are coming off back-to-back victories including a ten-man derby win. On the other Arsenal definitely have something to prove after Manchester United and Chelsea have patently exposed the holes in their armor. They'll see us as a big team they can beat […]

By definition, an own goal occurs in association football when a player scores a goal that is registered to his or her own team. That definition was in fact one of many I found while scouring the Internet, but most of the others are similar in that they mention players knocking or kicking the ball into […]