The first installment of this season's Manchester Derby takes place on Wednesday at Eastlands. Manchester United are coming off of a dramatic win at home where South Korean midfielder Ji-Sung Park bagged a brace with the winner coming very late on. It was one of those weekends in the Premier League where not only did […]

Anyone who watched last Saturday's match between Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur on television would have seen Tom Huddlestone's deliberate stamp on Johan Elmander. The numerous TV replays of the incident saw Huddlestone take out his frustration by stamping his foot down on the calf of Elmander (fast forward to minute 8:37 to see the […]

Chelsea may be one of the richest clubs in the Premier League, but their matchday attendances are definitely not in the same league as the Big Four of English football. Rival clubs Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool all have bigger attendances. The problem for Chelsea is not their inability to sell tickets. Instead […]

Three of the four top seeds are out of the playoffs after this weekend's conference semifinal action around Major League Soccer. Joining to be to talk about the past week's results is Jeremiah Oshan. We look at the four conference semifinals as well as talk about the two teams we seem emerging from the conference […]

For those who took part in our live EPL Talk Podcast yesterday, you know how much fun we had. Now it's time to bring it all to MLS Talk: Feel free to go to UStream directly to interact with the show OR stay here and, with the player above and the chat room below, participate […]

As if mimicking Gob while The Final Countdown blared in the background, Major League Soccer hass made the wrong things disappear. At least that's what you'd be led to believe if you listen to the dissension of fans, with Major League Soccer finishing it's second playoff weekend with four Western Conference teams alive in the […]

Tuesday, November 9th 8:00PM EDT – 5:00PM PDT Guests: Patrick Quinn Colorado Rapids Supporter NASL Segment: Ignacio Rodriguez of Miami FC Tom Grady: Wilmington Star News Reporter talks about the return of the Wilmington Hammerheads Harvey Ranola returns to discuss the Earthquakes Goal Aggregate victory against the New York Red Bulls MLS Cup Playoffs discussion

Barely have you had chance to draw breath and it’s time to do it all again. There’s a full midweek programme of Premier League fixtures, game week 12 is upon us already, and it’s going to be tricky selection wise as several managers may opt to shuffle their packs. Tie of the week has to be […]

The 2010 World Cup was one filled with potential for Germany. Players like Thomas Mueller, Mesut Ozil, Sami Khedira, Holger Badstuber, Manuel Neuer and Jerome Boateng emerged as some of the most promising young players in world football. Before the tournament, the entire German national squad played their club football in Germany's Bundesliga, as testament […]

The partisan nature of football is one of the greatest things about the sport. It gives us the chance to get behind one team, to share banter with opposing fans and feel that ecstatic high when our team wins. But do we take things too far? I am not talking about violence or poor behaviour […]

As with most local derbies (national derbies such as El Clásico between Real Madrid and Barcelona, Le Classique between Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, De Klassieker between Ajax and Feyenoord, etc. excluded), the derby means a little more to one club than the other. While Arsenal always wants to defeat their north London neighbor Tottenham Hotspur, […]

With four kids, business meetings galore, writing for EPL Talk and managing the bloggers who write for the other eight sites in the network, my home life can be a bit of a shambles at times. I finally did my 2009 taxes in August. The house is a mess. My to-do list is way too […]

The playoff numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Conference Semifinals – 2nd Leg Avg +/- Home Teams 2006 15,938 NA New England Dallas Houston DC United 2007 19,838 24.47% New England Chivas USA Houston DC United 2008 19,444 -1.99% Chicago Columbus Houston Chivas USA 2009 21,526 10.71% Chicago Columbus Houston Los Angeles 2010 19,871 […]

After the draw at St. Andrews I contended that Liverpool needed to change the way they played to get results. They were too narrow, with no pace and their full-backs went nowhere. It led to a dour game of football and a nil all draw that kept Liverpool in the lower regions of the table. […]

Trying Something New, & A Brace For Your Thoughts? Authors Note: Due to the fact that I'm not as much of an ego maniac as some might think, this week on the Footballer of the Week, I'm going to let you (the fine readers) decide who gets the award. Simply read through the list of […]