The result may not have satisfied Liverpool supporters, but the coverage of ESPN USA's first Monday afternoon Premier League game of the season was splendid to watch. Instead of utilizing the cast of characters from Bristol, CT, ESPN wisely decided to use the feed from ESPN UK. As a result, we were treated to the […]

The third round of fixtures is in the book for the 2009-10 Barclays Premier League campaign. Alexander Caulfield, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna break down all the action in this, the latest edition of the EPL Talk Podcast available here and on iTunes. The latest episode focuses on: Jermain Defoe's hot start, Martin O'Neill's mastery […]

When I first started watching English football, I rarely got to watch the league matches live. I worked in a bar with no TVs. My friends George and Noel would bring us VHS tapes of the weekend matches. George taped the Setanta matches and my Noel taped the FSC matches (often tacking on Sopranos episodes from HBO after each match). The […]

How many times have you been on the BBC Sport or ITV Football website and you've been intrigued by a video that the publisher is promoting only to find out that a rights restriction message pops up when you try to play it? It's frustrating especially given that BBC Sport began preventing international visitors from […]

After more than ten seasons of standing thru the test of time a single record held by a man who helped start MLS in the right direction was finally taken away. Juan Pablo Angel who was brought here from Aston Villa two years ago was on a goal scoring rampage and the only thing stopping […]

It was about 48 hours before their match this past Sunday against FC Dallas when Juan Carlos Osorio called the players to the locker room at their training facility in Montclair State University and told everyone after practice that he wasn't going to wait for the end of the season to leave the club. He did so […]

United and Liverpool "Back on track" After big recent wins against Stoke and Wigan – those bastions of consistency – the general consensus amongst the pundits is that Manchester United and Liverpool are "back on track" after defeats at Turf Moor and White Hart Lane. Just one problem with that though: I thought it was […]

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EPL Talk and MLS Talk are polling readers to help decide whether we should expand our blog network to include coverage of other leagues. Please take 10 seconds to complete the poll below and let us know if we added any sites to our network, which sites would you visit on a frequent basis (once […]

The 2000-01 Premier League season was a bizarre one, ranging from the mundane to the improbable: On one hand, Manchester United won the title by 10 points, on the other hand, it was delivered with a poor Middlesbrough side winning 3-0 at Highbury. Whilst Man United, Arsenal and Liverpool were the top three, Peter Reid's […]

This just in from Ives Galarcep of the Hearld News & Brian Lewis of the NY Post. Juan Carlos Osorio has just resigned as head coach of the New York Red Bulls. On RBNY's official site Assistant Richie Williams will be taking over these final eight matches under an interim basis. More information will be […]

Hendry Thomas is an unfamiliar name to many English Football fans. But from the vantage point of the CONCACAF region, he’s becoming a giant, an emerging titan in the relatively weak word of Central American football. Thomas, is Honduran, like his current Wigan team mate Maynor Figueroa and former Wigan man Wilson Palacios. The player […]

Before the new campaign got underway, many pundits were predicting the most open title race in years. Critics scoffed, but for once the result looks set to match the hype, after the champions became the second member of the 'big four' to lose in under a week. Liverpool's opening defeat to Tottenham Hotspur certainly whetted […]

If you won the lottery, what football dreams would you make come true? What would you do with the money? Would you buy a club, give it to your favorite team so they could buy a player, or would you use it for something else football-related? Yesterday, an EPL Talk reader named Mike posed the […]

What on earth is going on at White Hart Lane? Two games into the new Premier League season and Spurs have put together two convincing performances on the trot and have two wins secured. Liverpool were put to the sword on the opening weekend, despite Rafa's bleating about penalties, Spurs should have had the game […]