It seemed like the good ole days on Saturday at the San Paolo when Napoli defeated their big rivals Juventus to take over the top spot in the Serie A standings. They will at least have a share of that until they see how Inter and Roma fare and Lazio do as well. It was […]

Today was a turning point in the 2008/2009 Premier League season as one, it marked the first weekend this season when all Big Four clubs won their matches. And two, the top four teams in the Premier League are now the Big Four clubs — at least for the next 24 hours. Each of the […]

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While the Canadian National Team has been eliminated from securing its first World Cup qualification since 1986, this has been an otherwise banner year in Canadian Soccer. Toronto FC has been a few terrible (and dare I say blatant) officials calls away from making the MLS playoffs as a second year franchise. The Thunder Bay […]

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Follow Arsenal against Everton live and online today via the EPL Talk Chat featuring football fans discussing the match from around the world. Kick off time is 10:00 am ET/3:00 pm BST. The chat is currently ongoing. We will also be keeping everyone up to date on Aston Villa v Portsmouth, Bolton v Blackburn, Fulham […]

Hey, for those of you that were hating my last piece... you are absolutely right! There was nothing going on in Argentina, and that was confirmed by Lionel Messi when he arrived in Spain, he expressed his satisfaction after Alfio Basile resigned from the national team position. "When things aren't going well, there needs to […]

Previews of the weekend's fixtures courtesy of The Sun, The Telegraph and Sky Sports. The Injury Front Michael Owen does it again. I guess it's comforting Beye, Gutierrez and Martins are coming back...then again, maybe not. If Kinnear can stay calm about this, it will be the first sign of hell freezing over. Arsenal lose […]

It's no wonder that Tottenham Hotspur are playing so abysmally this season. Have you heard Juande Ramos's English? Seriously, if you were a player on the Spurs squad and you listened to Ramos speak, would you understand him, respect him and be motivated by him? Listen to his Friday press conference below and you tell […]

It's so rare these days that a football manager says anything new or remotely intelligent other than the rehearsed lines he memorizes from media training. Other than Joe Kinnear, of course. But Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari said so many refreshing things on Friday that I felt compelled to write about it. When asked about […]

Bolton against Blackburn isn't one of the biggest derbies in the Premier League season, but Saturday's battle between the two Lancashire sides — separated by 17 miles — will be watched by the biggest home crowd of the season including 1,000 fans supplied with free beer in the new Fanzone and "singing end" behind one […]

This edition of The Third Half with Johnathan Starling starts with Christopher Murphy as we discuss the upcoming weekend in the Bundesliga. Shakira Graham from Championship Talk discusses the upcoming weekend of the Championship along with some news tidbits. Kartik from Major League Soccer Talk talks about the week that was CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers […]

Fresh off of one of the worst performances in decades, Argentina find themselves in shambles. As of Thursday afternoon, the local media were reporting the possibility of coach Alfio Basile stepping aside due to inner conflicts and lack of response from the team the news would be confirmed hours later. Basile's irrefutable resignation had to […]

It was one of the biggest and ugliest collisions this week in World Cup qualifying play. Nicolás Burdisso and Mark González bumping of heads left more than just a simple headache the following morning. Betis' Mark González suffered a second-degree craneoencephalic traumatism and a third-degree knee sprain that will keep him out for three […]