Happy New Year folks! Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Roberto Mancini rues Manchester City's failure to land Robin van Persie — The Guardian Reading pay £600,000 for Sporting Lisbon's captain Daniel Carrico — The Guardian Graphic: Gary Neville’s team of the Premier League 2012/2013 so far — 101 GG Newcastle's Demba Ba has the […]

I'd like to personally wish you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year. As 2012 comes to a close, I'd like to thank you all for a tremendous year — perhaps our best one yet at EPL Talk. Our website and coverage continues to grow. We had a daily podcast during Euro 2012, […]

Three months ago, without telling anyone, I began a fun experiment on Twitter to live-tweet my life in suburbia (near West Palm Beach, Florida, to be exact). Since most of my life is consumed by watching, reading and writing about soccer, I thought it'd be an interesting experiment to live tweet any instances where I […]

If you didn't get an iPad Mini for the holidays, or you want a second one, be sure to enter your predictions for Beat The Manager, gameweek 21. The deadline to get them in is this Wednesday at 6:30am ET. We're giving one away after the end of gameweek 25 — and with all of the […]

The emergence of Theo Walcott as a center forward should bring an end to Arsenal’s search for a striker in the transfer market. Walcott, whose hat-trick and overall performance led Arsenal to a 7-3 victory over Newcastle, has appeared reborn since Arsene Wenger shifted him inside. The first tally on a wild day at the […]

While soccer is growing in the United States, the fandom of an American soccer fan can still be a solitary experience. Most people I interact with on a daily basis aren’t fans of the sport, much less enthusiastic fans who will want to chat about last weekend’s action or the more recent transfer gossip. Honestly, […]

Here are five observations from Manchester United's 2-0 victory against West Bromwich Albion in gameweek 20 of the 2012-13 season: 1. United manage to get a clean sheet: You read it right. The league leaders have been ruthless when it comes to finding the back of the net but the clumsiness in defense meant they […]

Chelsea's hopes of signing Demba Ba from Newcastle United have seemingly been dashed after talks broke down over contract terms. The Newcastle United striker has a release clause in his contract that allows a club to come in and sign him if they bid £7 million. While Chelsea and other clubs are interested in Senegalese […]

Newcastle United looks set to sign France defender Mathieu Debuchy, and the timing couldn't be better. United is suffering from a horrible dip in form, and there are plenty of gaps in the back four. Debuchy should be a brilliant addition to the Premier League. Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Newcastle set to […]

It's been another brilliant weekend in the Premier League, so I thought I'd try something new this week with a list of 10 things I loved about this Premier League gameweek 20 weekend that I either saw or read: 1. Cameron Jerome's goal for Stoke to make it 3-3. Who would have thought that before […]

In an interview released this weekend by Al Jazeera, FIFA President Sepp Blatter slammed Major League Soccer calling it "not a very strong professional league" and saying that "no professional (soccer) leagues (are) recognized by American society." The statements by Blatter will be extremely embarrassing to MLS and US Soccer executives particularly with the criticism […]

While most of the attention has been off the pitch at the chilly reception that Rafa Benitez is expected to receive at Goodison Park in front of the Everton supporters, there's plenty of things on the pitch to discuss. Most importantly, a win for Everton will see them leapfrog over Chelsea into fourth place (and […]

Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Liverpool approach Lazio for Modibo Diakite — 101 Great Goals Rafael Benítez braces himself for hostile reception at Goodison Park — The Guardian Video: Arsene Wenger praises Theo Walcott's "great" performance — BBC Sport Paul Lambert admits Aston Villa are in a dogfight against relegation — The Guardian Newcastle […]

After several nail-biting low-scoring games over the festive period, today's matches brought us an incredible 4.37 goals per game with 35 goals scored in eight Premier League matches. Here are the video highlights for all eight matches in the Premier League, gameweek 20: Sunderland vs Tottenham Hotspur Video: Sunderland v Tottenham Premier League Highlights 12/29/12 […]

Fresh after beating Manchester City at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland opens today's Premier League football with another opportunity to see if they can knock one of the big EPL clubs off their perch — Tottenham Hotspur. The match kicks off at 7:45am ET/12:45pm UK time. Six 10am ET/3pm UK time matches follow, which include Manchester […]