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/ 5920 days agoGuy Mowbray Interview: EPL Talk Podcast
Guy Mowbray is one of the components of BBC's Match of the Day and will be on hand at Wembley on Sunday for the League Cup final. Earlier this week, he joined the EPL Talk Podcast to break down the match-up between Aston Villa and Manchester United as well as talk about the English football […]
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/ 5920 days agoInter Lining Up Mourinho Replacement
It looks like another scudetto wouldn't be enough for Inter Milan's management. ESPN Soccernet is reporting that Inter owner Massimo Moratti wants former Manchester United and French national team star Laurent Blanc as his manager next year if the squad fails to advance to at least the finals of the Champions League. The Nerazzurri beat […]
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/ 5920 days ago5PM Deadline By Players Union Has Passed, No Strike For The Moment
If you thought that all the posturing and the mudslinging in the electronic & print media would end up being a major negative on this day, there has been some form of common sense with the players union. All outlets have reported that the Players Union has decided not to strike and continue to negotiate […]
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/ 5920 days agoPremier League Preview – Feb. 27-28
Hi Roberto, welcome to life in the Premier League. Once upon a time, Roberto Mancini rode in on a white horse, donned a dashing scarf and sparked hopes of not only sneaking Manchester City into the top four, but winning a trophy of some sort to snap decades worth of frustration in that area. It […]
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/ 5921 days agoU.S. 2, El Salvador 1 – The Morning After
It was a performance unlikely to show up on any clinic videos any time soon, but the United States notched a 2-1 win over El Salvador in a friendly Wednesday night at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Midfielder Sacha Kljestan snapped a 1-1 tie with an injury time goal after a nice give-and-go with Brian […]
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/ 5921 days agoFan Diary #27 – At Least Torres Is Back...
Well, Torres is back. That's about the biggest consolation I can take from the last two outings. We may have gotten the right result against Unirea, but if you didn't watch that match, trust me, the outcome doesn't reflect the awful, numbing football we sat through for most of ninety minutes. Where was the team […]
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/ 5921 days agoWho Do You Watch Football With?
This may apply more to my American brethren than to my English brethren, but as I sit watching football alone for the thousandth time, I wonder if fellow footie friends like myself experience countless hours solely devoting themselves to their passion in an excited state of oneness. In this post I'll attempt to rank (from […]
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/ 5921 days agoFox Soccer Plus Could Have a PR Problem
As the Setanta era of soccer broadcasting in America comes to a close, and Fox Soccer Plus looks to fill in its spot, the good people at Newscorp will have to wrestle with one important difference between Setanta and Fox Soccer – the Fox brand. Will consumers spend money for a stand-alone Fox channel that […]
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/ 5921 days agoArseblogger Interview: EPL Talk Podcast
The success of Andrew Mangan's blog has branded him as the Arseblogger, proprietor of Arseblog.com. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Stephen Darwin welcomes the Arseblogger back to the podcast, getting his views on the start of Arsenal FC as they sit third in the Premiership and are amidst their Champions League tie […]
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/ 5921 days agoGrant Wahl Interview: MLS Talk Podcast
Grant Wahl is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and author of the best seller, The Beckham Experiment. In Tampa for the U.S. Mens National Team's friendly with El Salvador, Grant joined the MLS Talk podcast Wednesday to talk USMNT and, more urgently, the ongoing negotiations in Major League Soccer over a new Collective Bargaining […]
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/ 5922 days agoFoxSoccer.tv to Begin Broadcasting Select Live Premier League Matches
Fox Soccer Channel will begin live streaming of select Premier League matches on FoxSoccer.tv beginning March 6, 2010, a Fox representative told EPL Talk on Wednesday. Earlier today, Setanta Sports sent an e-mail to Setanta-i subscribers informing them that Fox Soccer Channel "your favorite club competitions are coming to FoxSoccer.tv starting March 1" and included […]
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/ 5922 days agoIs Unrestricted Free Agency a Model that Soccer Should Consider?
Editor's note: This is part two of a series of articles written by Stephen Lucey. Part one, released earlier this week, focused on whether a salary cap could save the Premier League from itself. Part two, here, discusses unrestricted free agency and compares the NFL model to the Premier League. Portsmouth FC are near-mortally crippled […]
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/ 5922 days agoU.S. squares off with El Salvador tonight
There are a couple of different ways to look at tonight's friendly between the United States and El Salvador (ESPN Classic and Galavision, 7 p.m.). The first is to write it off as a meaningless affair. After all, there might be four or five guys out of the 20 in uniform tonight that have a […]
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/ 5922 days agoWhy Aren't There More English Footballers Playing Abroad?
I ask myself that question two or three times a year and rarely come up with a discernible answer. Is it the language, the culture, the food? Maybe it's the pop music? Whatever the answer is, I wish it wasn't so. I wish I could see English footballers deputizing or leading an attack for Real Madrid, Barcelona, […]