From the category archives:

Telegraph

For those of you who haven’t experienced the British culture of newspapers (after all, there are still 11 major national daily newspapers), Saturday is one of the best days of the week for feature length football stories in the papers. The Guardian, especially, does a fantastic job and, if I remember correctly, it’s the day [...]

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Who Said It Was a Quiet Week in English Football?

by The Gaffer on January 30, 2007 · 1 comment

I don’t know about you, but the past week has been pretty quiet on the football front. Maybe it’s all of the anticipation about last minute transfer signings before the window closes, or no Premiership matches for a week.
If you’re like me and you crave good football articles, peruse through these fascinating pieces:
Veteran writer Brian [...]

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Premiership Gets Richer & The Poor Get The Picture

by The Gaffer on January 18, 2007 · 0 comments

The Premiership announced yesterday record breaking TV rights deals around the world for the 2007/2008 through 2009/2010 seasons worth 2.7 billion GBP, which is $5.3 billion. This means more money will be spread amongst all of the teams next season with the title winner collecting at least $98 million, while the bottom place team will [...]

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Latest News From EPL Talk

by The Gaffer on January 6, 2007 · 3 comments

If you’re looking for live commentary of Manchester United v Aston Villa on the internet, go here. The third-round FA Cup match kicks off at 9am ET. The audio is courtesy of Eat Sleep Sport (thanks for the tip BCjohn).EPL Talk has published the U.S. TV listings for matches involving Premiership sides (i.e. the EPL [...]

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Earlier this morning, EPL Talk released its first podcast episode of 2007 featuring an interview with The Sunday Telegraph’s Patrick Barclay.The experienced football correspondent is often a guest on the BBC Sportsweek radio show with Garry Richardson. Plus Barclay is regularly featured on Sky Sports (view clip).In case you missed it, Barclay published two very [...]

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US Soccer Fans: Jurgen-na Love This News

by The Gaffer on October 26, 2006 · 0 comments

Jurgen Klinsmann has publicly stated he’s interested in the US men’s national team coach position. Read the story in The New York Times.
At the same time, Sven looks likely to accept a position outside of the UK by early January according to The Daily Telegraph.
At this point, US Soccer needs to act fast and agree [...]

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Is Chelsea Reverting to Dirty Tricks?

by The Gaffer on October 5, 2006 · 3 comments

Some interesting news of note:
The Sun newspaper has the exclusive story and pictures of Chelsea dumping sand on their Stamford Bridge pitch 12 days before their important home leg against Barcelona in the Champions League. The move is bound to cause controversy and will add to the tense nature of the Barca-Chelsea matches of previous [...]

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