The American sports landscape is crowded and I find myself often split in my attention between College Football, College Basketball, Golf, NFL Tennis, the NBA, etc. I watch or try to keep track of everything except for Ice Hockey which I will freely admit I hate. Soccer is the world’s game. Very few people would […]

According to Vic Wakeling, Managing Director of Sky Sports, in an email to EPL Talk reader Tokyo Toffeeman, Wakeling expects "at least one other broadcaster to make a raid on [Sky Sports's] talent at some stage next year." You can narrow down the possibilities and infer that Wakeling is talking about Setanta Sports who will […]

It's been 6,447 days since the Hillsborough Disaster occurred on what many believe was the darkest day in the history of football. On that fateful day in April 1989, 96 innocent football fans tragically died when many of them were crushed to death at a FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the […]

After Cristiano Ronaldo scored Man United's third goal in the Manchester derby today, you may have noticed that he got into a pose with Rio Ferdinand and pretended to hold rocket launchers. This isn't the first time it's happened either. So why the pose? Well, according to The Sun newspaper, the pose is a tribute […]

Excellent news for football fans in America. The Associated Press is reporting that ESPN and ABC have won the TV rights to Euro 2008 and will be broadcasting each game live. Read the article in Forbes Magazine here. While the thought of having ABC and ESPN crucify the matches through their idiotic commentary and studio […]

US Soccer had the opportunity of a lifetime that may have been able to win worldwide credibility to a program considered a lightweight in International circles. But as has been the case for several years now US Soccer proved to be stubborn, arrogant and in the worst way nativist when dealing with Juergen Klinsmann. Media […]

It's been a busy few days in football with plenty of Premiership matches in addition to the final Champions League matches of the round. The highlight for me was seeing Marcos Nelson's goal for Benfica against Man United. Supreme quality.Jose Mourinho didn't get his wish, so there are now five British teams in the round […]

Oliver Tse, the creator of SoccerTV.com, wrote a revealing response to the Paul Gardner article I commented on the other day. In Tse's article, he mentions many of the same thoughts I had (in that it's unfair to evaluate the Premiership based on just the matches that Fox Soccer Channel broadcasts). But what Tse does […]

By John Nicholson There are few more unpleasant fashion creations than a modern football shirt. Comprised of those melt-into-the-skin-in-a-fire polymers which feel like a cross between your grannies old nylon stockings and liquid plastic, they're cheap and nasty and yet incredibly expensive. It's not even as if they're especially flattering to wear. Almost no man […]

There have been lots of developments at EPL Talk the past couple weeks. So much, in fact, that I need to catch up and tell you. First, EPL Talk will be interviewing Reading goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann hopefully this week. If you have any questions for the American, please click the comments link below and I'll […]

Despite the criticism of the Premiership so far this season, it's refreshing to see that all of the teams in the league have double digits after Charlton's last minute win last night against Blackburn. Last year, if you remember, it seemed that Sunderland were stuck on single digit points for the majority of the season. […]

Steve McClaren will be answering questions tomorrow (Thursday, December 7th) via an online chat from The Football Association's web site beginning at 11:15am GMT (6:15am ET). The chat is free to join. All you have to do is register beforehand to get a FAN number. Registration is painless and takes less than a minute. More […]

I feel sorry for Premiership referees. Never before has their jobs been so scrutinized or have they felt a much pressure as they do now. The issues are compounded by the speed of the game and the advanced skills of some players where they've made diving in a penalty an art form, albeit a sickening […]

Veteran Soccer America columnist Paul Gardner has never been one to refrain from writing what he believes, so it's interesting to read his take on the English Premier League and its recent lack of goals and quality in an article published in The New York Sun newspaper. What's more interesting to me, though, is how […]

There are lots of developments happening around the Premiership in the last 24 hours. Liverpool are in the midst of a takeover. Meanwhile, Manchester City and Watford score zero goals to make the Premiership's record of the lowest scoring league in Europe even worse. So what can be done to fix the problem in the […]