Imagine for a minute that you're a teenager gifted with incredible soccer talents. Several scouts have been following you, and you've heard rumors that a couple of different clubs in the Premier League are interested in bringing you on to their books. If you were in that position, which Premier League club would you choose […]

Barclays Bank, the sponsors of the Premier League, has launched a Global Fans Survey 2008 where you could win a free trip to watch an EPL team of your choice play live (airfare and hotel included). The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and asks a series of questions such as who your favorite […]

As we arrive at the quarter mark for the current Premier League season the standings are starting to take shape, although who would have ever thought we would see Tottenham rock bottom or Hull City in the Champions League places. As such it is another big weekend of fixtures coming up and about time players […]

This early week edition of The Third Half starts with Johnathan Starling speaking with Shakira Graham of Championship Talk discussing the weekend that was the Championship, news on the Derby County/Norwich City alleged match fixing, and attempt to predict the future as the midweek fixtures hadn't been played, but we tried to predict. Kartik from […]

Two Premier League matches are subject of a match fixing investigation by the London fraud unit, according to The Daily Telegraph. The games in question are a Premier League match from 2007 and a Premier League game from 2001. Both matches were accompanied by suspicious betting swings in the Asian betting market. The clubs featured […]

Everton manager David Moyes has finally ended months of speculation by signing a new five-year contract with the club, worth a reported £16.5million. Some have said that Moyes' failure to sign the deal has contributed to the Toffees poor start to the season, with the club currently in 15th place with eight points from their […]

In the next few weeks, Premier League chairmen will be presented with a couple of options to consider regarding their clubs playing overseas matches in an international competition in the near future. Two of the options being considered include a mini-tournament being played during a winter break, and a summer friendly competition named the Premier […]

One game doth not a champion make. In Liverpool's case, their victory against Manchester United at Anfield was a moral victory, a win that was in the long time making, but I don't believe it signifies that the Reds are now title material. Wake me up when they beat Man United at Old Trafford. Then […]

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Creditors have contacted at least three Premier League clubs to express their concern that their level of debt is unsustainable, according to Paul Kelso of The Daily Telegraph. The question is which clubs do you believe are the ones most likely to have been contacted? Vote now.

FA chairman David Treisman mentioned introducing a salary cap, to combat the “very tangible dangers” of the current financial climate. Premier League clubs have a combined £3 billion of debt. But, is wage expenditure really the most prominent issue? Yes, players make an absurd amount of money for wearing short pants and playing a […]

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This week, some of the top decision makers in world football met at the Leaders In Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London to discuss a host of topics. Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, spoke about his vision for making the Premier League into a global league. When interviewed about the topic, […]

With the prediction by Lord Triesman, head of the Football Association, that the current global economic crisis could spell a ‘terrible danger' to clubs with spiralling debt, meaning could we actually see a Premier League club go to the wall? According to Triesman the Premier League is currently in £3bn worth of debt so the […]

It should be a very interesting weekend in the Premier League. Be sure to catch the matches live in the EPL Talk Chat all weekend long, hosted by Johnathan Starling. Aston Villa to beat Chelsea? Hull to beat Spurs? Blackburn to beat Man United or Man City to beat Liverpool? Which match will most likely […]