It’s pretty sad when two soccer columnists who represent what is supposedly one of the nation’s top newspapers are so incompetent and out-of-touch with reality.
Last November, I called New York Times soccer columnist Jack Bell a wanker for writing an idiotic article criticizing Fox Soccer Channel for broadcasting the Premier League, the world’s most popular […]
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ESPN and ABC’s dreams have come true. Sunday’s Euro 2008 final between Germany and Spain is a far better proposition for the Disney owned TV networks than Turkey against Russia would have been. With plenty of German Americans living in the United States as well as a massive hispanic population, TV ratings should be high.
Overall, […]
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• Interesting choice by Avram Grant to start Florent Malouda on the left wing instead of the more explosive Salomon Kalou, and by Sir Alex Ferguson to start Owen Hargreaves wide right ahead of Park Ji-Sung, who didn’t even make the bench tonight.
• Clarence Seedorf, who I am a big fan of, was very […]
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• I miss Tommy Smyth and Derek Rae on the call. I’m assuming they’ll be working the Manchester United-Barcelona game tomorrow, but I’m not sure why they couldn’t do this game as well…
• The first shot on goal came nearly eight minutes in, and it was a relatively slow dribbler from Steven Gerrard. One […]
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The EPL Talk Podcast, the only football interview show on the Internet, is set to return to the airwaves next week. It’s been over a month since the last episode, and it feels good to be back.
Many of you may know that I took a break for a while due to health reasons (after being […]
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ESPN’s Tommy Smyth is featured as the interview guest on this week’s EPL Talk Podcast. Download the podcast here or subscribe to the EPL Talk Podcast via iTunes so you don’t miss a single episode.
During the interview, Tommy discusses:
This week’s Champions League semi-finals and whether AC Milan can stop Man United,
What impact the managers of […]
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It’s the weekend of the World Cup Final, and it’ll be interesting to see how the media in the United States reacts to The Big Game.
So far, so good. While watching the Charlie Rose show Friday night on PBS, ESPN color commentator Tommy Smyth was interviewed and previewed Sunday’s match. Although Smyth rubs a lot […]
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