Liverpool today will have an opportunity to regain the faith of many disbelievers and to exonerate Rafa Benitez from the incredible amount of pressure and blame that has fallen on his shoulders this season, deservedly so for the Merseyside club's poor performances in the FA Cup and Premier League. In the competition where Rafa Benitez […]

A record 731 teams set out for eternal glory in winning the 2007-2008 edition of the FA Cup and after matches since August 18 of last year, we're down to the last four remaining clubs: Portsmouth, Barnsley, West Bromwich Albion, and Cardiff City. Bryan Robson conducted the draw for the semifinals this afternoon, with both […]

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The Winners At top of Serie A Inter, Roma and Juventus were situation normal all three winning with a scoreline of 2 – 0. A bruised and beaten AC Milan also overcame opponents Empoli by a score of 3 – 1. I personally had wondered how the Rossoneri would respond considering their midweek Champions League […]

Watching today's game at the JJB Stadium between hosts Wigan and Arsenal, one thing was made patently obvious: That field is a disaster and shouldn't be used for Premiership games. It has gotten worse and worse as the season has gone on and it's gotten to the point where it just seems unplayable; the surface […]

What a day. For Liverpool, who are now just two points behind Chelsea for third place in the Premiership, although Chelsea have two games in hand, today couldn't be any better. Led by Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard, who have been carrying the team all year, the Reds strolled to a 3-0 win over Newcastle. […]

Only one fixture is left to decide in the Round of 16. Inter Milan trail by 2 goals after being defeated at Anfield in the first leg. However, Liverpool could be without a vital component of their midfield for the second-leg of their Champions League tie away to Inter next Tuesday as Javier Mascherano appears […]

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The final whistle has just blown and Barnsley has achieved one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup memory by defeating Chelsea 1-0 at Oakwell. In the previous round, Barnsley beat Liverpool. The Yorkshire club are now heading to Wembley to compete in the FA Cup semi-final. What an amazing achievement for the side […]

Claudio Lopez, the Argentine striker who played in every match of his nation's 1998 and 2002 World Cup campaigns has agreed to terms with the Kansas City Wizards and is ready to be unveiled after he passes a fitness test/physical and gets his immigration related paperwork in order. As we first broke two weeks ago, […]

Chat live this weekend with EPL Talk readers from around the world as we take in the FA Cup and Premier League matches. Join us at http://epltalk.com/chat at any of the following times: Saturday, March 8 Manchester United v Portsmouth, 7:45am ET/12:45pm GMT, FA Cup Liverpool v Newcastle, 10am ET/3pm GMT, Premier League Blackburn v […]

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In many ways it was a wild finish to the Round of 16 and it's not done yet! We still have the second leg of the Liverpool – Internazionale tie on Tuesday, March 11th. FC Schalke 04 overcame some poor form of recent days to pull off a thrilling shootout win over 2004 winners FC […]

Listening to The Guardian's Football Weekly Podcast, especially contributor Sean Ingle, you'd think that every grown Brit who was a football fan bets on matches week-in, week-out. Obviously that isn't the case, but how prevalent is betting on matches? Remarkably, I've never once bet on a Premier League match. When I grew up in the […]

Editor's note: Today's guest column is written by Tokyo Toffeeman regarding the current state of Premier League TV coverage in Japan. Enjoy. By Tokyo Toffeeman I had to laugh a few weeks ago when listening online to a Radio Five Live discussion on the proposed 39th game issue. The presenter casually commented "So you'd have […]