Which FA Cup matches will most likely feature a shock result?(polls) It's one of my favorite weekends of the year – the third round of the FA Cup when there's always an upset result. The question is, which Premier League is going to suffer a shock defeat against a team from the lower leagues? Will […]

Roma and Bayern Munich have agreed on a loan deal for Luca Toni until the end of the 2009-2010 season, and hopefully Toni will give a new dimension of play to Roma with his deadly heading and killer finishing. In fact, Toni could be the signing that turns around the giallorossi's season into a more […]

ESPN Los Angeles.com and ESPN 710 Radio's Dave Denholm joins Kartik Krishnaiyer to review the year that was for the USMNT.

What should have been a difficult choice, was really a simple one. No player made anywhere near the impact on Major League Soccer in the 2000-2009 period as did Dwayne DeRosario. The Canadian international was without question the dominant figure this decade in the league. DeRo had a short stint in Germany, before excelling for […]

What was your favorite Premier League-related story of the past decade (2000-2009)? That was the question I posed this week to the writers of EPL Talk and here are their responses. But before I share them, I also want to find out what your favorite story was, so be sure to post that in the […]

2010 is upon us, which means that it’s the time of year when we journalists, pundits, analysts, and/or columnists take stock of the year that has passed and provide you with our lists of the past years highlights and lowlights. So, to start things of for me, here is my take on the lowlights of […]

Shame on US Soccer for making an announcement right before a major holiday about not sanctioning the USL and NASL. By releasing the news on December 30th, the organization must be hoping the story would be buried by most news organizations. While the soccer community will be up in arms over the news in the […]

The situation between the United Soccer Leagues and its former clubs has been documented for the last several months. Everything has been read and heard on this site to Inside Minnesota Soccer's Brian Quarstad & Richard Farley's Inside the Six podcast. The main points of this argument from the former clubs of USL-1st Division is […]

Often times, the United Soccer Leagues are forgotten. Certain elements of the American soccer press behave as if nothing exists in professional soccer below the first tier MLS. It can be argued that USL has not done enough to foster relationships with the press, but deference towards MLS leads many writers to simply ignore USL […]

During 2009, EPL Talk made some big changes in the podcast department by moving the weekly show to a daily format, promoting Kartik Krishnaiyer to host and adding new guests and analysts such as Laurence McKenna and Alex Caulfield. In 2010, we have even bigger plans and some major celebrities lined up to be interviewed, […]

Arsene Wenger is nothing if not strategic. To those who follow the professor closely, today’s announcement that Nicklas Bendtner is still three weeks away was no surprise. In the next day or two, I would expect an announcement that Cesc Fabregas will need another couple of weeks to fully recover. Also, if Wenger is going […]

It was the 10th day of March, 2004. The setting was the Theatre of Dreams, Old Trafford. Costinha had just equalized in stoppage time for FC Porto thus knocking out Manchester United of the Champions League and advancing to the final eight in Europe's most coveted club competition. Enter Porto boss Jose Mario dos Santos […]

Top Seasons of the Decade: Kansas City 2000 Columbus 2008 DC United 2006 Houston 2007 Miami 2001 Top Teams of the Decade San Jose/Houston DC United Chicago Los Angeles New England Top Coaches of the Decade Dom Kinnear Frank Yallop Steve Nicol Sigi Schmid Dave Sarachan

Stefan Szymanski, noted sports economist and co-author of the book Soccernomics (with Simon Kuper) joins us on the EPL Talk podcast to discuss the book and other economic trends in football. Don’t forget that the EPL Talk Podcast is the only Premier League interview and analysis podcast available for free. In the past few weeks, […]

Best Team Performance of Decade: 2002 World Cup vs Portugal Without Claudio Reyna and Clint Mathis the US took the field against a Portuguese side making its first World Cup appearance in sixteen years. Still, Portugal had been outstanding at the Euro 2000 tournament and boasted a collection of world class players including Luis Figo, […]