This round of the Copa del Rey has some intriguing storyline. The biggest game of the stage is undoubtedly Barcelona and Atlético Madrid. The biggest player on the field on Tuesday will be Lio Messi. Players like Samuel Eto'o, Sergio Agüero, Xavi, and Carles Puyol missing from the pitch will mean that there will […]

Major League Soccer has had rocky times and unstable franchise situations. It has also been remarkably successful in attracting and keeping a niche audience for thirteen years. Here are my picks for the four best executives in the league history. I settled on the number four because these four have in my mind separated themselves […]

Three years ago, Ronaldinho walked off the pitch to a standing ovation at the Santiago Bernabéu. On Tuesday night,the feat was repeated but at the Vicente Calderón by Lionel Messi. This has become his tournament where he has shown almost Maradona-like qualities. This was the case as Barcelona put themselves in prime position to […]

Steve Davis one of the most respected and well versed soccer writers in America raised a troubling possibility in his weekly ESPN column Monday. This is the possibility that MLS and WPS will in fact compete with one another despite unprecedented efforts at cooperation by the domestic first divisions for both men and woman. We've […]

Sometimes rivalries, hate, and revenge aren’t the only things that allow violence to destroy a spectacle. There are cases in which violence is generated based on incompetence. When justice is given out in such a haphazard way, that in the end it ruins the spectacle it makes many people angry. That was the case when […]

There are strong rumours today that Tottenham Hotspur are on the verge of signing Portsmouth striker Jermain Defoe and Middlesbrough winger Stewart Downing; two arrivals that could be hugely important in the club’s push to stay in the Premier League. Tottenham are a club famous for recruiting English talent, and new manager Harry Redknapp appears […]

Though it would be fair to say that the past weekend of FA Cup football has not produced a great number of real shocks, it would be totally unreasonable to suggest that the smaller sides from the lower divisions have not been extremely tough opposition for some of the Premier League’s high-flyers. It would be […]

Two big derby match-ups are the key draws of the FA Cup Fourth Round Draw. When the first tie drawn is Liverpool v Everton, you know something special was in the air. The other derby of the round takes place at Pride Park where Derby County will host Nottingham Forest. There is one potential derby […]

According to French daily L'Equipe, the Swedish international might make a travel once again into European waters.

Join the EPL Talk Chat as we take a journey through what I consider the best weekend in the English Footballing Calendar. While the ties may not be as sexy as one would like, but we already have one upset on the cards. Will we see plenty more by the time the weekend is up?

BBC Sport is reporting that English born Chris Birchall, of the Trinidad and Tobago national team will sign for the Earthquakes. From my vantage point this is an important symbolic signing for MLS. Birchall is English born and has never played his club football outside England. He became the first white player to suit up […]

The tag of phenom can be taken off of former Barcelona youth player Giovanni Dos Santos. After the hype that the Catalan media made about this kid being one of the stars of the future for the blaugrana, he ended up in London.

Cory Gibbs, a key member of the US squads that led up to the 2006 World Cup has been recalled as has Brian Ching for US Soccer annual January training camp in Carson, CA. The rest of the training camp squad is young and is made up primarily of MLS based players with a few […]

Juan Sebastián Verón might have called an end to the European leg of his illustrious career a few years back, but he's quality has not diminished one bit. One the eve of 2009, the former Sampdoria, Parma, Lazio, and Inter star was chosen as the South American Player of the Year by the Uruguayan daily […]

Juan Sebastián Verón might have called an end to the European leg of his illustrious career a few years back, but he's quality has not diminished one bit. One the eve of 2009, the former Sampdoria, Parma, Lazio, and Inter star was chosen as the South American Player of the Year by the Uruguayan […]