Let’s talk about tactics. Each week, clubs vary their approaches and over the season we’ll be analyzing how teams leverage an advantage by best using the resources within their squad. Louis van Gaal’s Halftime Switch Twitter’s trolls were quick to throw Louis van Gaal under the bus after his side’s 2-1 defeat at the hands […]

Burnley played their first Premier League match in four years Monday night with a home match at Turf Moor against Chelsea. With the odds stacked against them, few expected the Clarets to cause much of a stir against the Blues, but they did just that when they scored the opening goal of the game.

Sky Sports pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher got into a fascinating debate on the first Monday Night Football episode of the season as they discussed the new fad of wing backs in the modern game, and whether they're much different than the modern day full back. The 3-5-2 formation proved to be the catalyst […]

James Alexander Gordon, the voice synonymous with the reading of classified football results on BBC Radio, has died, aged 78. Forty years after getting the job he was at first "terrified of" on BBC Radio to read out soccer results, James Alexander Gordon was forced to step down. The then 77-year-old was forced to retire […]

Paris Saint-Germain has been rocked by the news that their talismanic striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, will be out for close to six weeks due to injury. Ibrahimovic was forced off with an injury after just 15 minutes into the Ligue 1 clash against Bastia, with the score still tied at 0-0. The Swedish international suffered the […]

Sporting Lisbon defender Marcos Rojo is on his way to Manchester United in a £16million move, according to reports emanating from Argentina. The deal will see Portuguese international Nani move in the opposite direction. Rojo will be in England tomorrow night to have a medical before signing a four-year contract with an optional fifth year. Nani […]

Burnley returns to the Premier League for the first time since 2010. They're the smallest town ever to have a club in the Premier League (the town has a population of less than 80,000). Today, they face Chelsea, the bookmakers' favorite to win the Premier League title. To put things into perspective, here's Chelsea's record […]

Rumors circulating around AS Roma centre-back Mehdi Benatia went into overdrive on Saturday after Sky Sports reporter Jim White tweeted news that the AS Roma defender was on his way to Manchester United. That news was quickly followed by reports of the player flying to England to speak to United officials. Those reports were quickly […]

It goes without saying that the amount of soccer available to American "soccer" fans is astounding. This summer, ESPN/ABC made sure every match of the World Cup was available live on television, Internet or even app. Meanwhile, NBC Sports Group is kicking off its second season covering the Barclays Premier League, which will see the […]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has had a busy few days. Last week, the court upheld FIFA's four-month ban on Uruguay international Luis Suarez. Although it did rule that his ban on all football-related activity was "excessive", thus allowing the striker to train with teammates, participate in promotional activities and administrative matters. Today […]

The start of the new Barclays Premier League season brought goals, shocks as well red cards, meaning that the officials were given no time to settle in and get used to their new vanishing spray. There were 3 red cards over the weekend, all of which were totally justified. However, Kyle Naughton's dismissal in the […]

The Premier League is back in our lives again after a three month break. And there were already several feel-good stories to put a smile on my face (and hopefully yours too). Here's my top 4: 4. Southampton’s fight against Liverpool New Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has seen half of his would-be starting XI leave […]

In October 2012, World Soccer Talk published an analysis of the health of the top 100 soccer blogs according to a 2011 list that was created by The Guardian newspaper of the best soccer blogs worth following. At the time of the review of the list in 2012, 37% of the blogs were defunct with more on the edge […]

For the opening weekend of the Premier League season, NBC Sports and Uber partnered in New York City to offer free Uber rides to soccer fans in the Big Apple. There's a fleet of Mini Cooper Countrymans on the streets of New York City, so we thought we'd share photos collected from Twitter of the Premier […]

In a match of David against Goliath, newly promoted Burnley kick off their Premier League campaign against last year’s third place finishers, Chelsea. The heavy match and title betting favourites Blues travel to Turf Moor, and will be expected to get a result. José Mourinho will surely have seen how the rest of the clubs […]