Who should the next England manager be after Fabio Capello retires? It's the age old question that everyone in England has an opinion about. Should he be English or a foreigner? Should he play a 4-4-2 or a formation used by continental countries or Premier League clubs? Click on the above flowchart that's a foolproof […]

The Week 29 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 29 Thru Week 29 YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- GP 2006 20,277 6 15,502 192 2007 20,575 1.47% 7 16,767 8.16% 195 2008 17,338 -15.73% 7 16,460 -1.83% 210 2009 22,165 27.84% 7 15,878 -3.53% 205 2010 20,048 […]

Liverpool opened the John W. Henry era with one of their mos disappointing Merseyside Derby performances in recent memory. On this edition of the EPL Talk Podcast, myself, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna talk about the result at Goodison Park, Villa's result against Chelsea at Birmingham, Manchester United's troubles with West Brom, and the rest […]

The Serie A has returned, and we're beginning to see some interesting developments regarding teams which might need a new manager sometime soon. Just looking at the bottom three teams: Fiorentina, Parma, and Udinese, you find underachievers which will need to either start winning, or be replaced. The question is, how much time will Mihajlovic […]

They say the sign of a good side is winning when you’re not playing well. If that is the case then Roberto Mancini's Manchester City could be a real challenger for the Premier League this season after grinding out another result, this time a one goal advantage as City won 3-2 at Premier League new-boys […]

Trust Special 1 TV to return with perfect timing. The BBC 3 show is back with its first episode of the season, albeit quite late. But in the episode, there's plenty of talking points including: Wayne Rooney's sexual indiscretions, Sven's recruitment by Leicester City, Liverpool fiasco, and much more. Not the greatest episode but definitely […]

As good as United were in the opening twenty minutes of the match, so too were they awful in the second half when they allowed West Brom to equalize through a myriad of mistakes. Many of United's gaffs were easily avoidable, Patrice Evra's botched clearances and Edwin van der Sar's bobble which allowed the Baggies […]

Kaiserslautern 0 – 3 Eintracht Frankfurt I definitely didn't see this one coming! Frankfurt's Theofanis Gekas was once again the man of the match for his side as he scored a brace and lifted his side to what ended up being a comfortable win. Kaiserslautern had the chance to go ahead after 25 minutes, when […]

It might have been a good week for Liverpool off the field, but their on pitch woes continued with a woefully disappointing defeat at the hands of Merseyside rivals Everton. New owner John W Henry, who was in attendance at Goodison Park, might have been thinking what he had parted £300 million for as goals […]

Thank the heavens that league football is back! And boy, did the English Premier League remind us what we were missing. A Merseyside derby, a compelling (if deliberate) affair at Villa Park, and a slew of great matches adorned this weekend's fixture list. For myself, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna, it's fodder for a great […]

After the emphatic win for Everton, we continue our discussion over to the match of the Haves and the Have Nots. Blackpool V Man City EPLtalk Live Blog

Ding dong: the ding dongs are dead. It will be some time before Liverpool supporters know what we're getting with John Henry and NESV, but we can at least bask in the joy that comes with departure of tweedle-dee and tweedle-jackass: Mr Tom Hicks and Mr George Gillett. For us, the news of their ousting as club […]

While his Wolves side weren’t able to earn a valuable victory over West Ham, Mick McCarthy was able to hit back at Danny Murphy, with a comment in a press conference summing up the universal disagreement that has followed the Fulham midfielders attack on managers who ‘encourage’ bad tackles. When asked what he thought of […]

The Merseyside derby is always one of the biggest Premier League matches on the English football calendar, and today is no different after everything that has happened to Everton and Liverpool this season. In previous years, many of the Merseyside derbies I've watched are clouded in fog, literally. I seem to remember that many of […]

Kaiserslautern – Eintracht Frankfurt This match is a pivotal one as far as the relegation dogfight is concerned. Both teams play a similar system and it should be a very tight encounter. Kaiserslautern's Srdjan Lakic and Frankfurt's Theofanis Gekas have been banging in the goals this season, and their aerial ability and physical strength will […]