You may not want to hear it, but it’s the time of the year when stores are frantically getting ready for the holiday shopping season. The Christmas displays in shop windows seem to appear earlier and earlier each year.
Football is not immune to this, of course. The sport generates a tremendous amount of revenue for […]

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Which is the better Premier League highlight show? BBC’s Match Of The Day or TWI’s Premier League Review Show?
Millions of people around the world watch the highlight packages that feature the best bits of each Premier League match, so the shows should be quite similar, right? Wrong.
Read on to learn the major differences between the […]

 

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Having watched most of Euro 2008 spread out between the BBC and ITV I have come to the conclusion that both channels need a major shake up in the ways they cover sport. Both sides irritate people with different aspects of their coverage, for example they both need some new pundits and co-commentators in because […]

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Nineteen years ago on this very date, 25,000 Liverpool fans traveled to Sheffield for the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest. In one of the darkest days in football, 96 Liverpool fans died at Hillsborough.
Please feel free to pay tribute to those lost souls in a minute’s silence at 3:06pm GMT/10:06am ET.
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The website redesign for EPL Talk is coming along nicely and may be live as early as this weekend or, at the latest, early next week. As soon as it’s unveiled, I’ll let you know here. I’ve mentioned it before, but the EPL Talk Blog that you’re reading now will be moved to a different […]

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BBC’s Match of the Day this weekend will feature a first when female commentator Jacqui Oatley will cover the Fulham against Blackburn match.
She will be the first female commentator for MOTD in the 43 year history of the show.
Read the article in The Daily Mail newspaper for some interesting comments by personalities within the football […]

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BBC America has a form on its web site where you can vote for programs you’d like to see added to their network. One of them includes BBC’s “Match Of The Day.”
I wouldn’t think that BBC would have the rights to show the highlights show in the U.S., but whether they do or not, feel […]

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