As our owner and head honcho The Gaffer highlighted last week, The Guardian podcast snubbed MLS deeming it not a ‘Major league’. Quite ironic for the satirist's amongst you given it’s name but that’s irrelevant. Now before I reel of a list of reasons, let me state this as de facto. I like Major League […]

MLS could not have asked for a better opening weekend of soccer than this weekend. After a somewhat pedestrian first match between the Galaxy and Sounders, there were a ton of story lines to follow in this weekend's games. While it may be a lot to ask for every weekend to be this exciting (although […]

First, let me start by commending Edwin Van der Sar on a long and illustrious career. Coming through the ranks at Ajax, he won countless number of trophies including the Champions League during the very successful 1990s Louis van Gaal years. Moving to Juventus he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup and repeated that feat at […]

Editor's note: MLS Talk blogger Kristan Heneage had the fortunate opportunity of speaking to rising star Dax McCarty last week before the season began. Here is the transcript of the interview: Kristan Heneage (KH): You were drafted around November, albeit briefly to Portland Timbers. What was your gut instinct regarding that deal? Were you pleased […]

Without a doubt, the writers for The Guardian are some of the best soccer writers in the world. Their podcast is first class. And even for an American like myself their writers and collaborators are well known: Sid Lowe, Jonathan Wilson, Raphael Honigstein, and others. So the fact that they want to contribute more to […]

He’s been one of the bargains of the season. The Ivorian defensive midfield who joined Newcastle for £3.5m has taken to the league like he’d played in it for years. I recently went to see Birmingham against Newcastle at St Andrews. I watched it like many games, with my Dad. After another smart turn and […]

It was a weekend at the top, middle and bottom of the Premier League where results may have huge ramifications on the destiny of club's in the coming weeks to months. Wigan won, Arsenal almost lost, Chelsea could be on a surge to battle for the Premier League top spot, Manchester City crumbled, Everton remembered […]

It was a cold but fun night at Red Bull Arena Saturday as the season got started for one of the pre-season picks to be atop the Eastern Conference. A lot of questions would be answered on this night and most of them were pointed at young rookie Juan Agudelo. The potential that he has […]

The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast, required listening among many soccer fans around the world, was very dismissive of Major League Soccer earlier this week on their Thursday Extra edition. One of the questions from a Football Weekly listener was read on air. The person asked why there had been no mention of the start of […]

Sunderland's new home shirt for the 2011-12 season has been unveiled by Umbro. The classic Sunderland strip, featuring the red and white stripes, is accentuated by a black V-neck and black cuffs. This makes for a markedly different appearance for the home Sunderland jersey. The current one features a red trim instead of black (i.e. […]

Following Saturday's action, we have two big matches in the Premier League today, on Sunday. The first one kicks off between Sunderland and Liverpool at the Stadium Of Light. The prospect of this match still instantly reminds me of floating red beach balls. But after Tottenham's slip-up Saturday morning, Liverpool will be seeing this as […]

Thanks to the help of FIFA 11, EA Sports has created a simulation of what they think will happen during Sunday's match of the day when Chelsea takes on Manchester City at Stamford Bridge. The game is of upmost importance to both sides. So while many in the EPL Talk crew are predicting a tense […]

DC United and the Columbus Crew are two of the MLS's original franchises and two that are going through the reboot phase. For DC United, the rock bottom came last year with a last place finish, a porous defense, and an offense that at times wouldn't scare a high school team. Management decided the team […]

Tuesday, March 22nd 8:00PM EDT – 5:00PM PDT Guests: Simon Borg of MLS Soccer .com Tavio Palazzolo of The Cup .us discusses and previews 2011 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup Red Bull Hour: Re-Capping the One Goal clean sheet victory over the Seattle Sounders

Spurs' quest for another UEFA Champions League appearance took a detour yet again, as West Ham United held onto a scoreless draw at White Hart Lane in their London Derby. Formations The home squad was assembled in their familiar 4-4-1-1 formation. Jermain Defoe played the front. The most notable change from their normal squad was […]