Ballack's move to Bayer Leverkusen appears to have hit a sour spot after Ballack's agent, Michael Becker, labelled the German national team 'a bunch of gays.' Becker's comments were taken from an interview with Der Spiegel magazine in Germany. The writer of the article, Aleksandar Osang, also wrote that everyone in Germany was already aware […]

Spanish national team winger David Silva's long suspected departure from Valencia to Manchester City is now official, bolstering City's hopes for Champion's League qualification during the 2010-11 season. Silva signed his contract on Wednesday, after completing a mandatory physical. He has seen his role diminished under Vincente Del Bosque but his 10 goals and eight […]

Bari, a city on the heel of the Italian boot, is an excellent market for Serie A and Italian soccer and the type of club that should be a mainstay in Serie A. The metropolitan area is home to over 1.6 million Italians and Stadio San Nicola was one of the modern stadiums built prior to the […]

Just days after the end of World Cup 2010, and just a week after Philipp Lahm suggested he would like to retain the captaincy even after the World Cup, Michael Ballack has come out and made it known to the public that he intends on taking back what he believes is rightfully his. Ballack spoke […]

In the 'oh, you don't say' moment of the weeks following the end of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, former England captain David Beckham, in a Yahoo! webchat on Wednesday, has openly admitted that the players in the England squad need to take full responsibility for England's poor performance. "Capello did everything that he could have […]

It has been the worst kept secret in all of Major League Soccer. So many hints, video teases, assumptions and of course Sporting Director Erik Soler meeting the media and keeping quiet about his name being mentioned as contract negotiations were on going, but after going thru all the formalities now it's official. Thierry Henry […]

Fulham has launched their new home jersey for the 2010-11 season. Designed by Kappa, the new Fulham home shirt is set to be worn by the First Team when Fulham take on Brentford away tonight and Bournemouth away on Saturday. According to Kappa, "The new kit continues in Fulham’s traditional black and white, and incorporates […]

During the 2010 World Cup, EPL Talk registered its best month ever in terms of web traffic. On behalf of EPL Talk, I'd like to thank you, the readers, for your continued patronage, as well as the continued excellence shown by all of the EPL Talk bloggers (and podcasters) who have worked diligently to produce […]

The 2010 World Cup will be remembered for some terrible open goal misses (Nigeria's Yakubu as the most blatant example) as well as some horrific goalkeeper mishaps especially during the group stage of the tournament (Robert Green, cough cough). But it will also be remembered for some glorious goals and stupendous saves. Thankfully, we have […]

This may well be the first time that you hear Bobby Goldsboro talked about in the football column and it will almost certainly the last. Bobby, you may or may not recall is a singer who had a few hits in the 60s and 70s, one of which, "Summer (The First Time)," is a song […]

Photographs of what appears to be Chelsea's new away jersey for the 2010-11 season have been leaked on the Internet. The images of Chelsea's new away shirt feature a black top with gold trim. Designed and manufactured by Adidas, the new Chelsea away jersey features a tartan-like design on the shirt which is slightly consistent […]

On the final episode of the World Cup Buzz Podcast this week, analyst Laurence McKenna mentioned how he was looking forward to the World Cup video montages that are often created and distributed on YouTube. While more will be certainly be released in the coming days, I've found three which I think you'll enjoy. Each […]

If failing to win a group lauded by a national media as "EASY" and crashing out to their hated German rivals in the round of 16 weren't bad enough for England's 2010 World Cup team, today brought another piece of bad news for the Three Lions. FIFA ranked England 13th at this year's final – its […]

The Kaiser, who has become quite infamous in world football for his comments before and during the World Cup. He has publicly criticized the German national team in the past, and coach Joachim Loew. Now, Beckenbauer, who is an absolute legend of German football, has come out in the press and slammed both World Cup […]

If you've got 10 minutes to spare, you can watch this one video which features every single goal scored in the 2010 World Cup in chronological order from Siphiwe Tshabalala for South Africa all the way to Andres Iniesta of Spain. The music that accompanies the track is an unknown SID tune composed on a Commodore […]