Having confirmed last weekend the final four of the FA Cup, it's back to the main business of Premier League survival and title challenges as all twenty teams are involved in ten important matches. We’ve got derbies, relegation six pointers and matches between sides at opposite ends of the Premier League spectrum. And after some indifferent […]

The English Premier League put two more clubs through to the quarterfinals of UEFA Champions League, with mid-week action seeing Manchester United and Chelsea qualify for the final eight. They join Tottenham Hotspur, who beat Milan last week, by sending Marseille and Copenhagen home. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, myself and my […]

The art of being a striker is, of course, largely about scoring goals or at least, setting them up for someone else. However, that is achieved in many different ways. Some strikers are battering rams, some are more creative types but Javier Hernandez must currently rank as one of the best when it comes to […]

On the same day Seattle set an attendance record for an MLS match, the rival Portland Timbers sent out a press release designed to show that their fans too can pack a stadium for a soccer match. This was another tactic in their strategy to prove to the soccer world that maybe Seattle doesn't have MLS's most […]

Sir Alex Ferguson isn't the type of person you want to pick a fight with. After criticizing referee Martin Atkinson's performance during Chelsea's victory against Manchester United on March 1, Ferguson got into hot water with The FA today after he was handed a three-match touchline suspension. To make matters worse, the suspension has triggered […]

It's hard to believe that it's been less than a year since Javier Hernandez joined Manchester United. Since officially joining the club on July 1, 2010, Chicharito has literally hit the ground running with the Old Trafford club. He's already scored several critical goals in the Premier League season to keep United at the top […]

We’ve all seen Victor Moses play before, but when his previous club Crystal Palace side traveled to lowly Reading in December 2009, he owned the pitch he played on and his stock rose considerably. Then 18, Moses scored a long-range curled effort, and his second came as he powered through two challenges and fired across […]

The 2011 Major League Soccer season opened with a rainy affair at Qwest Field. The LA Galaxy got the best of Seattle in this meeting, 0-1, to christen a new season in front of a national audience. While ESPN's coverage claimed 4-4-2’s for both teams, in reality Seattle fielded what was more of a three […]

The wait is finally over. It's been almost four months since Colorado Rapids won the 2010 MLS Cup after defeating FC Dallas in the final on a cold night in Toronto. At 9:30 ET tonight, the Los Angeles Galaxy will walk out on to the pitch at Qwest Field to take on the Seattle Sounders. […]

Join us here at 9:30 PM Eastern as we kick off the season with MLS's First Kick, a game featuring two MLS Cup hopefuls with the Galaxy visiting the Sounders. Bring your analysis, thoughts, and witty banter as we celebrate the beginning of the soccer season. MLS First Kick 2011

In 1992, when the Premier League was formed, the clubs began to take advantage of lucrative television rights and broke away from the Football League, which had existed since 1888. When fans worldwide saw Brian Deane score the first Premier League goal in the 2-1 win by Sheffield United over Manchester United, little did any […]

It’s been five trophy-less seasons for Arsenal. And after being knocked out of the F.A. Cup at the hands of their fierce rivals Manchester United, many feel that the drought will not end this year making six years without a trophy for the Gunners unnaceptable. Not long ago however, two weeks to be precise, it […]

Last night Norwich City beat Bristol City with another late show, to march forwards as the promotion race enters the final stretch. With just nine games left in the season the Canaries find themselves in the automatic promotion places three points clear of the chasing pack. The real story of tonight and the Canaries season […]

After weeks of previews, discussions, and debates, we are roughly 36 hours away from the beginning of the fifteenth MLS season. The league has seen an offseason full of drafts, some national team names fleeing to Europe, some old friends returning to the league, some of the league's first faces becoming the next wave of […]

It has so often been swept under the carpet and only muttered sparingly away from the spotlight. It was always there but not quite acknowledged as it should have been. Step forward Andy Gray and Richard Keys. Two of the most prominent men in the coverage of football in Britain, two fifty-something’s basking in the […]