Looking at the Premiership schedule on Fox Soccer Channel for the upcoming 2006/2007 season, you can expect to watch 7.5 hours of continuous Premiership coverage on Saturdays in one block. Here's the rundown: 9:30-10am ET: EPL Preview Show 10am-Noon ET: Live Premiership match Noon-2:30pm ET: Live Premiership match 2:30-3:00pm ET: Super Saturday + 3:00-5:00pm ET: […]

Several German news sources are reporting that Jurgen Klinsmann has refused a contract extension with the German National Team. Before we have out of control speculation on this website, keep in mind Bruce Arena is still under contract with the USSF until December and thus would have to be fired by his close friend Sunil […]

If you've been reading the EPL Talk Blog the past week, you'll notice that we've been talking a lot about Fox Soccer Channel's impending coverage of the 2006/2007 Premiership season. We can now confirm that FSC has changed their schedule regarding coverage of matches. Their typical schedule will now be: Saturdays 10am ET — Live […]

The World Cup is still lukewarm, yet there has already been a lot of movement in the transfer market: Spurs has announced the signing of Ivory Coast star Didier Zokora. The midfield player was one of the stars of the World Cup team. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has joined Charlton from Middlesbrough after Boro announced they […]

According to the Fox Soccer Channel web site, we can reveal that the channel is planning on showing the Community Shield match on Sunday, August 13th at 10am ET. The match, which is played between the Premiership champion and FA Cup winner, will be shown live. In previous years, it has been shown on pay-per-view […]

The Daily Mail is reporting that it has deciphered what was said by Matterazzi to Zidane in yesterday's final that resulted in the Frenchman headbutting the Italian. The newspaper hired a lip reader. Read the article here.

ABC and ESPN have covered each of the last four World Cups, but due to a surge in soccer popularity here in the USA and the increased ratings ESPN has enjoyed for European Champions League matches the last few years, the Disney Networks put more time and resources into covering Germany 2006 than any previous […]

Well, since I follow France and am a France supporter, I will a report card on my favorite team and their players. So, here I go.... Overall Preformance: B+ – Yeah, the team did great overall. Many people would give them an A. But they did look weak in the first stages. They also should […]

Although the Premiership TV schedules for Fox Soccer Channel and Setanta Sports haven't been released yet, EPL Talk has put on its thinking cap and can deduce that the following matches will be shown in North America. Saturday, August 19th, 7:45am ET Sheffield United v Liverpool (TBD) Saturday, August 19th, 10am ET To be determined […]

Here's the press release that was distributed this morning, announcing all of the developments on the site between now and the August 19th Premiership kick-off.

The latest episode of the EPL Talk Podcast is now available featuring an interview with Jeremy St. Louis, an anchor from the Fox Sports World Report show available on Fox Soccer Channel. During the episode, Jeremy discusses how the Fox Sports World Report show began, what the reaction has been in Canada to Owen Hargreaves […]

Photos from today's EPL Talk tour for the 2006 World Cup Final: Queen Mary British Pub, Jupiter Farms, Florida. I've also posted a video on YouTube. It's from inside the pub of the fans watching the final two penalties as Italy wins the 2006 World Cup.

What a final! Two evenly matched teams gave the world a show, and perhaps the better team didn’t win (after all I am partial to France, my pre-World Cup pick to win the title) but the real winner was the game of Soccer/Football. After three consecutive sub par World Cup finals, this game lived up […]

Today's Italy against France World Cup Final is a true clash of titans. Both teams are overflowing with class players, but who will prevail? Here are some of the key matchups: Cannavaro and Henry. If Fabio Cannavaro can stop Henry from getting into scoring positions, France has little chance of getting a goal in this […]

One of the advantages of reading this blog is that you get to find out about all of the EPL Talk developments first-hand. Here's the latest news for you to enjoy: Starting tomorrow, EPL Talk will be having a daily countdown to the start of the Premiership kick-off. Every day, we'll be posting Premiership news […]