ESPN The Magazine recently announced the chance of a lifetime contest that will award one lucky winner (and a guest) a week long dream trip to South Africa for this summer's World Cup finals. Wanna see Rooney bang home a brace against Tim Howard and the United States? Maybe a Donovan penalty will see the […]

It's an unbelievable weekend in the Premier League. Manchester United grab an injury winner against City to keep them in the race. Tottenham Hotspur deservedly beat Chelsea and opened the Premier League title race wide open. And then on Sunday, everyone expected Arsenal to win the match against Wigan — especially after the Gunners were […]

Well I got a bit of a surprise today. Yesterday, looking on sky bet at fixtures, I saw the steel city derby, Sheffield Wednesday V Sheffield United, was a Sunday early kick-off. I know this commonly happens for big derbies on police advice, but naturally seeing it was on a Sunday and an early kick […]

When the supporters were entering Red Bull Arena there was some positive thoughts that the club was going to rebound from the pathetic performance last week against Chivas-USA. Well unfortunately that lingered and it was another pathetic start to the match as the club started flat and uninspired. You saw easy chances given to FC Dallas […]

Jermain Defoe puts Tottenham ahead With only three weeks to go until the final Saturday of competition the key races in the Premier League are heating up. Two key derbys, one in Manchester and the other in London, threw the races for first and fourth place back into uncertainty as Burnley and Hull City seem […]

The highly anticipated Manchester Derby took place Saturday with frustrating and mixed results. Both teams seemed satisfied to sit back and not risk over-committing attacking players while each team was still able to enjoy decent spells of possession, but minimal quality attempts on goal. Not that a reason was needed, it being a local derby […]

This is it. The match that means everything to both teams. Manchester City against Manchester United. If you remember, the league game between both sides at Old Trafford last autumn was one of the highlights of the season. The deciding goal by Michael Owen. Fergie time. There is simply too much riding on this game […]

Firstly, congratulations to Roberto Di Matteo and his West Brom side who clinched the second automatic promotion berth and will be once again in the top flight next season. The sound coming from West Brom fans is that they're desperate for their team to spend money and cement their place in the Premiership, as in […]

The schedule for the remaining Premier League fixtures on US television has been updated, except for the last day of the season, and the big news is that you better start making your plans to prepare for the May 2nd match between Liverpool and Chelsea if you want to watch it live. That's because it will […]

Sevilla failed to show up against a desperate Real Valladolid side. Mallorca could only muster a draw against Real Zaragoza at La Romareda. Athletic Bilbao knew that a win against Valencia on Thursday would ascend them to within one point of Mallorca for the final Champions League spot. Sure, Athletic has not won away from […]

With this year’s South African World Cup the great majority of weekday matches will be played in working hours. Coupled with the fact that many pundits are predicting the U.S. making it to the second round and beyond you are likely to want to watch many of the matches (with your bosses consent or otherwise) […]

It's time to take any walk down memory lane. This time to 1982 for the Manchester derby. We have the first half of the match featured on The Big Match with Brian Moore and Jim Rosenthal. And what a derby it was. The last two times these teams played each other before the 1982 derby […]

The Friday edition of the podcast welcomes Danny Last, proprietor of EuropeanFootballWeekends.co.uk. The site is dedicated to documenting the adventures of Danny and his friend as they travel across Europe's different countries, venues, and clubs. Danny joined me earlier this week to talk about the sites, his most memorable trips, and why he started documenting […]

The latest installation of the Manchester Derby will be played at Eastlands this weekend, and as usual, the stakes are high. This will be the 155th meeting in all competitions, and United has the edge with 63 wins to City's 42. There have also been 49 draws, a result that won't be good enough for […]

ESPN unveiled the next phase of their advertising campaign Wednesday to promote its coverage of the 2010 World Cup. The campaign is entitled "One Game Changes Everything." The first video, see "Robben Island" video above, began airing across ESPN networks on April 7 and tells the true story of how Nelson Mandela and many South […]