I've been going through a 80's fascination the past few weeks. No, I haven't been getting the styling gel out to give myself a Flock Of Seagulls hairdo, but I have discovered (better late than never) a 24/7 music station on Sirius-XM called "1st Wave," which plays new wave music from the 1980's on a […]

At 3pm on Saturday, Ian Holloway will settle into his place at pitch side and soak in the atmosphere of a half empty DW Stadium. He will look out onto the messy Wigan turf and see a string of Championship players plugging away on a pitch suited for rugby league. Holloway will look around and […]

In mid-July, I posted a story on this site proposing that Bari, if they played their cards right, could be poised for a top six finish. In the intervening four weeks, they lost a top-flight defender and whiffed on a major signing, leaving the club in worse position than they were just a month ago. […]

Yesterday, Laurence McKenna, Kartik Krishnaiyer and myself focus on some of the issues that have carried over from the summer into the beginning of this Premier League campaign. On today's edition of the EPL Talk podcast, we move to the clubs, talking about which teams we feel are going to make-up the bottom half of […]

Manager Dieter Hecking has one of the grimmest season's ahead of him with a depleted Nurnberg squad. After the losses of key players during the summer and a failure to replenish the squad, Hecking and Nurnberg could very well be heading for 2. Bundesliga by the end of the season. Key Players The problem with […]

Manager Mirko Slomka will know that his side avoided relegation by a very narrow five points last season, and lifting his side further out of that relegation dogfight will be the priority this season. After a summer of changes, Slomka will be looking to improve on last year's narrow escape from relegation. Whether or not […]

Martin O'Neill has resigned as manager of Aston Villa just days before the 2010-11 Premier League season is set to begin. Kevin MacDonald, the reserve team manager, takes over as caretaker manager and will prepare the team for the opening Premier League game of the season against West Ham on Saturday. No reason was given […]

EPL Talk photographer Chris Doellner was in Chicago last night to capture some of the former English Premier League stars who are now plying their trade in Major League Soccer. The nil-nil game between Chicago Fire and New York Red Bulls featured former Premiership stars including Thierry Henry, Freddie Ljungberg and Juan Pablo Angel. Watch […]

Striker Marlon King has recently been released from prison and after his freedom he conducted an interview with Sky Sports where many thought he came across as quite genuine, although others saw him as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. King still protests his innocence over the offence that saw him given an 18 month jail […]

Juventus hasn't been spending big bucks to reinforce the team, the bianoneri have decided to go for a route which includes youth developement, and Italian players. But now that they have 20% less season ticket holders than last season, the club needs to do something to convince fans to go watch Juve at the stadium. […]

Brown and Robinson Retire From England Squad Fabio Capello has lost two more potential squad members as Blackburn keeper Paul Robinson and Manchester United defender Wes Brown declined their respective call ups to the England squad for England's upcoming friendly against Hungary. Robinson and Brown, both 30, narrowly missed out on the 23-man squad to […]

After Sunday's Community Shield match between Chelsea and Manchester United, I had a chance to watch the highlights of the game with the Digital Video Recorder (DVR) that I use to record games. I got to see Chicharito's goal again that he scored with his face. It's not something you get to see very often. After […]

In the first of four parts, the EPL Talk team returns from their post-World Cup hiatus just in time for the 2010-11 English Premier League Season. Richard Farley, Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer, in the first quarter-hour of a recording from Sunday night, talk about some of the summer's overarching issues – the sale of […]

The Week 19 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 19 145 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 92,650 1 15,378 15,194 121 2007 25,407 -72.58% 5 15,897 3.37% 15,449 1.68% 122 2008 18,584 -26.85% 6 16,467 3.59% 17,334 12.20% 128 2009 16,846 […]

This match was supposed to be about the four to five Designated Players that was going to perform on the field at Toyota Park on Sunday Night. The big names of world football coming together and strutting their stuff all match long as the spotlights were shinning bright. But while this was a fantastic scoreless […]