Hendry Thomas is an unfamiliar name to many English Football fans. But from the vantage point of the CONCACAF region, he’s becoming a giant, an emerging titan in the relatively weak word of Central American football. Thomas, is Honduran, like his current Wigan team mate Maynor Figueroa and former Wigan man Wilson Palacios. The player […]

Before the new campaign got underway, many pundits were predicting the most open title race in years. Critics scoffed, but for once the result looks set to match the hype, after the champions became the second member of the 'big four' to lose in under a week. Liverpool's opening defeat to Tottenham Hotspur certainly whetted […]

If you won the lottery, what football dreams would you make come true? What would you do with the money? Would you buy a club, give it to your favorite team so they could buy a player, or would you use it for something else football-related? Yesterday, an EPL Talk reader named Mike posed the […]

Continuing the La Liga preview, part two will discuss the next seven teams in alphabetical order: Málaga, Mallorca, Osasuna, Racing Santander, Real Madrid, Sevilla, and Sporting Gijón. Málaga Will Málaga stave off the second season syndrome? After a couple of seasons in La Liga Adelante, Málaga rose from the lower division with a vengeance as […]

What on earth is going on at White Hart Lane? Two games into the new Premier League season and Spurs have put together two convincing performances on the trot and have two wins secured. Liverpool were put to the sword on the opening weekend, despite Rafa's bleating about penalties, Spurs should have had the game […]

Now that the Premier League has launched on ESPN and La Liga TV coverage will debut on September 13, 2009, ESPN are beginning to promote upcoming games on its network with high-energy TV commercials. The first one featuring football supporters singing the "Seven Nation Army" theme by the White Stripes has been playing on the […]

Hamburg shook off their early season funk and tore apart Dortmund at the Nordbank Arena. It was the 4th straight victory for the Dinosaurs at home against BVB. A series of early goals seemed to settle the match by the 12th minute. Guy Demel pushed the first over the line after a massive keeper error […]

Have a look at the table. Go on, have a look. It's always interesting to glance at a Premiership table and see Tottenham at the top while Manchester United sits mired in 10th. Take heart, Red Devil fans. The season is still very young. On the tube Don't miss the weekend's TV schedule, which is, […]

Today, the bid committee for USA 2018/2022 cut the number of potential cities to host matches to twenty seven, eliminating eleven cities that had submitted proposals. The eleven eliminated cities are: Birmingham, Cincinnati, Ohio; Fayetteville, Ark ; Knoxville, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, and San Antonio. The elimination of Birmingham and […]

Keeping track of all of the ways that soccer fans in the United States can watch the sport on television suddenly got very confusing in the past week with the addition of ESPN2 to the Premier League TV rights package, as well as the glittering array of Champions League matches being shown across Fox's TV […]

Special1 TV will not be returning to Setanta Sports in the immediate future, according to a Setanta Ireland representative. The cult hit parody show featuring puppets of Jose Mourinho, Sven Goran-Eriksson and Wayne Rooney will not be returning to the airwaves in the foreseeable future unless the program is picked up by another broadcaster. While […]

It's been one of those weeks when business meetings got in my way of watching the mid-week Champions League playoff games, so I finally had a chance to sit down Wednesday evening to speed through five or more games that were waiting for me on my DVR player. Fox's production aside (I thought they did […]

There has been more dirty laundry being floated around the final season of the swamp and in the practice facility at Montclair State University when it comes to both Head Coach Juan Carlos Osorio & Sporting Director Jeff Agoos. Michael Lewis of the New York Daily News has reported on his Big Apple Soccer Blog that […]

Dom Kinnear, and the Houston Dynamo have done it again. In an era when MLS struggles to keep talented players in the league, and continues to sign over the hill, washed up foreign stars, Houston stands above the rest. In signing Luis Angel Landin, the Dynamo have brought to MLS precisely the type of player […]

It's finally happened. If you considered the term dead man walking, it's now become dead men coaching and sport directing. This terrible and disgusting season for RBNY will end on the names of Jeff Agoos and Juan Carlos Osorio as Stefan Bondy of the Bergen Record has reported from Red Bull in Austria that these […]