As discussed here at EPL Talk last week, Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has decided to rechristen St. James' Park, the club's venerable home since 1892, as Sports Direct Arena. Predictably, the move has gone over as well as an episode of "Geordie Shore." Newcastle supporters are among the most loyal in football, supporting the club through thick and through relegation and dodgy […]

For Sir Alex Ferguson the current international break could not have come at a better time. After a blistering start to the season, his Manchester United team have looked very laboured over the last couple of weeks and even though they have only lost once, that hiding received from Manchester City, they have looked uninspired […]

Corporations are taking over soccer, right? If you believe this, then the renaming of St. James' Park is surely incontrovertible evidence on your behalf. Kristan Heneage already wrote about this, saying that the name is irrelevant since the ground will always be St. James' Park even if the sign outside says otherwise. In the United […]

We're faced with an incredible number of soccer matches each week to choose from. It's impossible to watch everything, so we carefully pick and choose which games and leagues to watch. But in an average week, how much soccer do you watch? Here, on EPL Talk, is one of the few places you can be […]

Leave it to MLS to miss a slam dunk. As part of their daily unveiling of award winners leading up to the MLS Cup (an idea that I like that they do), the league announced the winners of the Comeback Player of the Year and Coach of the Year. One of these awards was a […]

This Saturday EPL Talk will be hosting a soccer watching party featuring Swansea City against Manchester United. The game will be shown in glorious HD at Wowies, a sports bar in Boca Raton, Florida. I'll be there along with other soccer mad fans. You and your friends are welcome to join, and we'd love to meet […]

Something happened this past weekend that made my day. I decided to take a long walk Saturday. It was a beautiful day in South Florida. A picture-perfect day. Blue skies, 76 degrees fahrenheit and a cool breeze. It felt so good to get out and walk for about an hour through a quiet, wooded neighborhood. […]

As the U.S. men's national team struggled through yet another 1-0 loss in an international friendly, Twitter was afire with criticisms of the team and the new boss. The most damning criticism might have been this: that the team played like a Bob Bradley coached squad. Harsher words have never been said! However, we have […]

The Italian national team was dealt a double blow with the participation of Giuseppe Rossi and Antonio Cassano in Euro 2012 thrown into doubt, yet the emergence of Mario Balotelli could serve as the perfect remedy for coach Cesare Prandelli's concerns. Balotelli had a slow start to the English season but he has been scoring […]

If one thing has become painfully obvious in the last month or two, it is that David Luiz is not a centre back. In Chelsea’s recent games they have conceded goals like they haven’t done in a long, long time. The most obvious example of this was the 5-3 loss to Arsenal after which Jamie […]

I forced myself to watch the England against Spain game delay on Saturday night. I didn't have high expectations. And I wasn't excited about watching the England team play. They've lacked the passion for so long when they've played that watching them had become a chore. But for the first time in a long time, […]

Just as my fellow MLS Talk writer Robert Hay has listened to Don Garber’s press conference two weeks before the MLS Cup Final at the Home Depot Center, I too listened to that press conference and I have to say that every time the commissioner talks about the league I feel that he has done […]

Editor's note: Since the memory of last weekend's Premier League football is still fresh in our minds. here's a match report of Wolverhampton's win against Wigan — a match of big importance due to the implications on the relegation zone. The report is courtesy of Chris Machin, a regular contributor to EPL Talk (and a […]

“Fact Or Fiction” is a series that will be run every Friday. In this series, an assertion will be made regarding an impacting topic in the Premier League. EPL Talk writers Matt Hackenmiller and Earl Reed each offer their views on whether the statement is “Fact or Fiction.” Stepping in for Earl this week is EPL Talk's very […]

The annual MLS State of the League audio conference, held prior to the MLS Cup, is usually good for some news and gossip from the MLS league office. This year's conference was no different, as The Commish touched on the hot topics of expansion and relocation, as well as more nuts and bolts like life […]