I may be a little late posting this afternoon on the Ecuador friendly but will have a full post game review on the site later today.

Here are some of my observations from last weekend's La Liga matches: Chelsea shouldn't have a lot to fear in the Champions League with Valencia although the Blues still shouldn't take the Spanish side lightly. Against Racing Santander, Valencia looked pretty average. And I didn't think much of the atmosphere at the Mestalla stadium, the […]

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A couple of weeks ago in the EPL Talk Email Newsletter, I wrote about how advanced the Bundesliga was in comparison to the FA Premier League when it comes to marketing itself. The Bundesliga web site is far superior to the Premiership one. The German league handles all of the TV broadcasts for all of […]

I want to share a letter I received from one of the EPL Talk readers regarding Setanta Sports and its availability via ITVN. Thanks to Dave Morris for writing in. Gaffer, I'm not fully informed on the relationship between FSC and Setanta, but my observation is: what a great value ITVN/Setanta is. In previous seasons, […]

Ask most American's what Britain is famous for and you'll invariably get the same answers. Bad teeth, The Beatles, The Queen, Benny Hill and Are You Being Served and the muffin – which is a bizarre sexual practise we are all obliged by law to indulge in on the Isles. Honest. Aside from those, a […]

Nike has designed yet another new jersey for US Soccer. This jersey has a nice color scheme and hopefully will be used quite often in the next few years. This jersey will debut this Sunday in the friendly versus Ecuador.

This past Monday, Cobi Jones perhaps the most recognizable American player of his generation announced this MLS season will be his last. Many non soccer fans will remember Cobi Jones for his dreadlocks, but those of us that love the great game will remember his career as one of the most significant in the history […]

The first match that will open the new Wembley Stadium will be televised live for viewers of Fox Soccer Channel this Saturday when England's under-21 side faces the Italy under-21 team. The new 90,000 stadium (discussed in more detail on the EPL Talk Podcast interview with Simon Inglis back in September) will be limited to […]

Back on February 15th, EPL Talk revealed that Liverpool would be unveiling new away shirts this season from Adidas. While the club hasn't officially shown what the new shirts will look like, EPL Talk has discovered the following picture courtesy of the Colours of Football web site. The image shows what looks like the initial […]

Arsenal is rumored to be playing in a white away jersey for the 2007/2008 season. For the Gunners, it'll be quite a departure from their usual smorgasbord of away colors. Pictured right is reportedly one of the concepts that Arsenal is considering. There's no guarantee that Arsenal will select this design as their new away […]

EPL reader Ossie's Dream was kind enough to provide us a mini-review of Fox Soccer Channel recently, where he shared his disdain about Fox's over-the-top way that it incorporated an Adidas advertisement/sponsorship into last week's Super Saturday +. I, too, was critical of Fox Soccer Channel's attempts to find new ways to attract the attention […]

Newcastle United may not be masters of football on the pitch this season, but Adidas and their marketing team definitely know how to sell football shirts. In a unique idea, Newcastle unveiled their 2007-2008 home kit this week on their web site. Each day this week they revealed a little more of the image of […]

The latest episode of the EPL Talk Podcast was just published featuring a candid interview with Ian Bishop, formerly of Manchester City, West Ham United, Miami Fusion and several other clubs. Bishop, who is perhaps most famous for his goal in the famous 5-1 win by Manchester City over cross-town rivals Manchester United in 1989 […]

According to The Observer newspaper, the Premier League plans to use its innovative goalline technology to settle disputes over whether balls have crossed the line from the 2008-09 season.It's about bloody time!