Call me a naive American, call me a football purest, or call me a relatively young football supporter, but some of the scenes emanating across Europe this past weekend, more specifically England's Premier League and Italy's Serie A, have caused football to take a minor step back as our community prepares to plunge itself upon the world's stage […]

Jesse Chula is one of the best and most prolific authors at EPL Talk, but to this point, his work for the site has been confined to the written word. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Chula transcends screen and commits to the track to talk to me about his history with the […]

Fox has just revealed the Premier League season finale matches it'll be showing on its soccer networks Sunday. They'll be showing the two most important games. Chelsea against Wigan Athletic (11am ET) will air on Fox Soccer Channel, while Fox Soccer Plus will televise Manchester United versus Stoke City (also 11am ET). The United game […]

Despite the superstars that have graced the World Cup over the decades, there is one record that may never be beaten by any player ever again. Only 3 times has a player scored double figures in a World Cup tournament, once in 1954, Sandor Kocsis scored 11, in 1970 the legendary Gerd Muller scored 10 […]

All great relationships come to an end, the natural course having run as far as it can. Sometimes they start passionately and brightly and quickly burn away to nothingness. Sometimes, they are a slowly burning and taut affair that consumes all within them in a supernova of passion oblivious to all around them. Occasionally, despite […]

Coventry City fires Chris Coleman Coventry City have fired manager Chris Coleman following City's disapointing 19th place finish in the Championship. The move came following a 4-0 thrashing at home courtesy of Watford that ensured a 19th place finish for The Sky Blues. The former Fulham manager took over for Ian Dowie when City sat […]

It was a remarkable attempt for Charlie Davies to come back from a litany of injuries suffered in an October car accident. He's rehabbed, training and done everything humanly possible to get back on the field in time for June's World Cup, but according to his club team, he's set to miss out on the […]

Yeah, It's a lot of money again for the Premier League Having reported last week that Yahoo won the exclusive UK online highlights rights, it's also been confirmed that the only other outstanding contract for the 2010 to 2013 round, the "long form" highlights package, has again been won by Sky. Sky will utilize these rights again for […]

The Rafa Benitez saga continued yesterday, as he demanded answers from Liverpool's ownership about his status for next season. The speculation this weekend was that he had a secret deal in place to take over at Juventus and give the Italian club the high profile manager they were seeking, but so far that rumor has yet to […]

Manchester United is reportedly scheduled to play a friendly against the Kansas City Wizards on July 25, most probably at Arrowhead Stadium, as part of the Red Devils' summer tour of the United States. The news of Manchester United's friendly in Kansas City comes from a tweet (pictured above) posted on Twitter by a communications […]

In part three of the video series, follow the United States players and fans as they countdown to the World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador.

[polldaddy poll=3149731] Wednesday's match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur (2:55pm ET, ESPN2) is enormous not only because it'll help decide which club will qualify for the Champions League, but it's also an important crossroads in the history of these two important English clubs. The victor in the race for fourth may decide who will […]

The clock has already started to tick. After being a good solider for Pepe Guardiola and FC Barcelona the French striker and former Arsenal legend is ready to move on towards Major League Soccer and play in his favorite destination that has been the worst kept secret in the entire football world. We all know […]

Good news everyone. In the build-up to the World Cup, we've decided to move the EPL Talk Network forums from Ning to www.epltalk.grou.ps. Don't worry if you were already a member of our previous network, you have already been migrated to our new destination, avatars and all! Due to changes in the Ning network that […]

Inter Milan skipper Jose Mourinho, expected by many to leave Serie A and head to Real Madrid this summer, has already started scouting some new team members. According to the Daily Mail, Mourinho is looking to woo Chelsea legend Frank Lampard on a £30 million deal. Mourinho and Lampard spent three years together when the Portuguese managed […]