The latest episode of the EPL Talk Podcast is now available, which features an exclusive interview with Reading and U.S. goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann. Hahnemann is arguably the top U.S. keeper in the world right now with Friedel faltering a little behind a weakened defence at Blackburn, and Kasey Keller (Borussia Monchengladbach) and Tim Howard (Everton) […]

By John Nicholson It's a given in football that you don't sell your best player. To sell your best player usually indicates that the club is going down the toilet, is desperate for cash or the player concerned has been caught with some swollen part of his anatomy in the managers daughters 'downstairs bits'. Selling […]

Fox Soccer Channel may have lost TV rights to a portion of their Premiership matches and the entire Bundesliga this season, but the network came out strong by announcing today it has won the rights to show the final rounds of the UEFA Cup. FSC will show six quarterfinal matches, four semifinal matches and the […]

ITVN today announced it has dropped its Setanta On Demand service because Setanta doesn't currently have rights to broadcast the programming on an 'on demand' basis. "We are hoping to offer a video on demand service in the new season," said Fabian Citraro, VP of Sales at ITVN. The live Setanta programming is available as […]

After this past weekend's goalfest in the EPL, Alan Pardew is suffering from a hangover as he was sacked by West Ham United this morning. Thinking back to Saturday's four matches that were shown live on Setanta and Fox Soccer Channel, we witnessed an incredible amount of goals but they were all against relegation candidates: […]

In the five Premiership matches shown on live TV in the U.S. on Saturday, an incredible 20 goals were scored — averaging four goals per match. Who said the EPL was boring? Of course, the Chelsea versus Arsenal match was a classic. While Essien's goal was spectacular, don't underestimate Flamini's goal. If you watch the […]

Instead of being released yesterday (Sunday), Episode 44 of the EPL Talk Podcast will be delayed and scheduled for release either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. I plan on publishing a joint episode. The lead interview will be with Reading And U.S. goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann. The second interview will be with Manchester United fan […]

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 […]