If Philadelphia Union fans had expected 2012 to be a simple year of growth, they may have another thing coming. Or a major cog going. Yesterday, Ives Galarcep broke a surprising story about the potential sale of Sebastien Le Toux to a European club. Given that the versatile Frenchman tweeted the night before […]

Despite the importance of club football, Euro 2012 dominates the majority of the continent’s players’ thoughts going into the second half of the season. Italian football has had it’s share of ups and downs over the last decade, with the elation of winning the World Cup in 2006 counteracted by scandal in the domestic game; […]

Newcastle United legend Malcolm Macdonald says the club’s central midfield partnership of Yohan Cabaye and Cheick Tiote is the best in the Premier League. French international Cabaye is enjoying a successful first season in English football following a summer move from Lille for a reported £4.3m. Ivorian Tiote joined the Magpies in August 2010 and […]

1. O Valencia- The Decemberists were on to something. Not only did Manchester United's speedy number 25 hit top form just as the Christmas countdown began, but his performance on Saturday gave new meaning to the words "and you ran like a fool at my side." Erm, Sam Ricketts. Dreamy musical allusions, however, have no place in […]

httpv://youtu.be/9KgiPGAYQYk For some of us, this may be an easy answer. For others, it may be practically impossible to say. But what was the first English football match you remember watching on television? Living in Britain in the 1970s, football matches were hardly ever shown on television. The one match you could count on was […]

In the build-up to the 1998 World Cup held in France, a company named Merlin launched the Official England 1998 World Cup sticker collection. The quality of the stickers was equal to that of Panini, and Merlin issued quite a lot of other football related stickers during their time. In this particular collection, I've selected […]

The APL is back from a short break and is just in time to report another good weekend for the little guys as gameweek 21 saw big scores for both Norwich and Blackburn. It isn’t often that we see Blackburn among the week’s biggest winners, but their 3-1 win over Fulham earned them a score […]

Over the last month or so a noticeable change has become patently obvious when watching Manchester City play. Ever since their unfortunate defeat to Chelsea, where by all accounts they were terrific in the first half of that game, City to my mind have begun to play with fear, which in turn has culminated in […]

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I went through a stack of Panini stickers from the 1990 World Cup today, and picked out eight different stickers that I thought you would be interested in. Click on the above photo for a larger photo. A lot can change in 22 years. Kasey Keller went from the goalkeeper with a mullet to a […]

Cheers and Jeers is a weekly column on EPL Talk, summing up the best and worst of the previous Premier League weekend. Regular columnist Matt Hackenmiller is on assignment right now attending to his newborn child, so I thought I'd step in and give my own opinions. Feel free to debate me in the comments […]

“Money doesn’t talk, it swears” – Bob Dylan The Italian Serie A started the season with newly promoted Atalanta at the foot of the table, after the club faced a points deduction due to match-fixing in Italian Serie B. I was disappointed to learn that the player at the centre of the controversy was Atalanta […]

Wolverhampton Wanderers travel to a big North London club with European ambitions; are given a snowballs chance in Hell of taking anything from the game, defend resolutely and defy their long odds and escape back up the M6 with a precious point after a 1-1 draw. . . I can’t help feeling we’ve seen this […]

Sunday's match between Swansea and Arsenal was an eyeopening account that laid bare the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, especially the gulf in talent and confidence between Swansea's Premier League footballers and the poor confidence and technical inefficiencies of some of Arsenal's veteran players. Matched up against each other on the same pitch, it was […]

Liverpool and Chelsea are both planning summer tours to the United States to compete in preseason friendlies, which may include Liverpool playing AS Roma at Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park baseball stadium, says The Boston Globe. The newspaper reports that in addition to Liverpool possibly playing Roma at Fenway Park, that other preseason friendlies which […]