The soccer press has been buzzing about the latest Wayne Rooney press conferences, statements, and rumors. The usual suspects have been named as possible destinations: the ATMs that are Manchester City and Real Madrid, EPL rival Chelsea, and Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich. But where Wayne Rooney really belongs is in Italy, and specifically Inter Milan. […]

UEFA Champions League If judging by current form at this very minute, Real Madrid might be playing the best football in Europe. After their opening few matches where they could not kick the ball into the Mediterranean Sea, their ten goal outburst against Deportivo La Coruña and Málaga in their last two matches shows signs […]

I'm sure most Middlesbrough fans are pleased that Gordon Strachan has resigned and walked away without compensation. Our league position tells its own story. It plainly wasn't working and his increasingly eccentric media interviews revealed a man who looked to be under intense pressure. This didn't stop a majority of the fans from turning against […]

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party held their annual conference recently. Top of the agenda was selecting a new leader to take charge of the party as it begins to rebuild in the shadow of the ruling Conservative/Liberal-Democrat coalition government. Intriguingly, the race came down to two brothers, David and Ed Miliband, with the younger Ed edging his elder to […]

Is a blue moon rising for Wayne Rooney? For Manchester United and its supporters, it was a week they would rather forget. It began on March 30, 2010 when Wayne Rooney limped off with an ankle injury after Bayern Munich scored an injury-time winner during the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final. While the German […]

While Real Salt Lake and Seattle were affirming their places as the league's form teams, Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York were dealt setbacks. On this edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast, myself and Christopher Riordan take inventory of the league with one week left in the regular season.

In goal, I've got Frankfurt's Oka Nikolov. The Macedonian shot stopper saved a potentially game changing penalty against Kaiserslautern when the scores were still level. While he wasn't troubled too much other than that penalty incident, he was pretty confident and composed when dealing with crosses and through-balls. At right-back, I've got Hoffenheim defender Andreas […]

The last time I attended a Major League Soccer game was nine years ago when San Jose Earthquakes beat Miami Fusion 1-0 in South Florida to advance to the 2001 MLS Cup Final. Although we didn't know it at the time, the game ended up being Miami's last ever MLS appearance. It also marked my […]

Beginning today, Fox Soccer Channel has made significant changes to its primetime viewing schedule to focus more on the Premier League and Champions League while pushing other shows such as Soccer Talk Live to late-night viewing times. The new schedule features a three-hour block of Premier League programming from 7-10pm ET each weekday evening. Then […]

Tuesday, October 19th 8:00PM EDT – 5:00PM PDT US Soccer Second Division Championship Final Preview Show Guests: Martin Rennie Head Coach of the Carolina Railhawks Hector L. Diaz Montes: Puerto Rico Islanders Supporter Steven Lenhart Discusses Portland Timbers First four MLS player signings Re-Capping Red Bulls Loss at Philadelphia Union Geoff Reid Philadelphia Union Supporter

Middlesbrough FC have today announced that manager Gordon Strachan has parted company with the club, a mere 12 months after initially taking the position. A 2-1 defeat at the weekend to new boys Leeds United in front of a sparse Boro crowd appears to have been the final straw for the club as the former […]

He has clocked up over 640 appearances for the Reds and over the years has displayed the sprit and fight that Liverpool need right now but his form over the last few seasons and this season in particular has been questionable. This leaves us to ask the question whether or not the Merseyside club were […]

Through the first six rounds in La Liga, Valencia CF led the way at the top of the ladder with sixteen points, one point ahead of Villarreal, two points ahead of Real Madrid, and three points ahead of FC Barcelona. Along with Real Madrid, Valencia remained only one of two teams still undefeated in the […]

For the past four days, I was away in Chicago in business meetings. Normally this wouldn't be so bad if the trip happened during the week. But as it happened on a weekend when I'm usually at home watching the Premier League matches on my trusty laptop or television, it messed up my typical routine […]

So, Wayne Rooney has declared his intention to walk out on Manchester United after having serious differences with manager Sir Alex Ferguson. I find this story extremely fascinating because it's ultimately a power struggle between two egos, Rooney and Ferguson. As manager, Ferguson has every right to bench Rooney during previous weeks because of his […]