It has been a day of introductions here at EPL Talk, so let me be the latest to say hello to all of you. I am honored to be joining the site alongside all the new members, and I would like to thank The Gaffer for the opportunity to write here.
Now to the big news. […]

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EPL Talk has seen the future of Premier League highlights on the Internet and it may be legal.
If you missed it, The Daily Telegraph has recently started including highlights of matches on their website. But they’re not just normal highlights. Instead, they’re 3D animated representations of key moments in matches. View a sample from the […]

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Beginning next season, soccer fans in Singapore will have to pay more money if they want to see their Champions League and UEFA Cup matches on TV. That’s because fans will need to subscribe to mio TV to watch the European cup competitions, while the Premier League will remain on StarHub.
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Trying to navigate the Internet to find live coverage of Premier League football can be a difficult experience especially if you’re not familiar with many of the different options available. Sure, the optimal experience is to watch a match on TV, but oftentimes your favorite club isn’t on the box.
Here’s EPL Talk’s guide to help […]

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ESPN2:
AC Milan vs. Arsenal (Tomorrow, 2:45 PM ET)
Chelsea vs. Olympiacos (Wednesday, 2:45 PM ET)
ESPN Classic:
Barcelona vs. Celtic (Tomorrow, 5:00 PM ET, Tape-Delayed)
Real Madrid vs. Roma (Wednesday, 5:00 PM ET, Tape-Delayed)
Setanta:
Manchester United vs. Lyon (Tomorrow, 2:45 PM ET)
Sevilla vs. Fenerbahçe (Tomorrow, 6:00 PM ET, Tape-Delayed)
Schalke 04 vs. Porto (Wednesday, 11:00 PM ET, Tape-Delayed)
If you can only […]

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During the 2006/2007 season, the average UK TV audience for a Premier League match was 1.18 million, according to the industry newsletter TV Sports Markets.
This compares with an average US TV audience of approximately 300,000 people watching a Premier League match on Fox Soccer Channel.
While there’s a significant gap between the two numbers, it isn’t […]

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The final results have been tabulated for the latest EPL Talk poll and one of the answers is quite surprising. When asked “where do you primarily watch Premiership matches,” 80% of the respondents answered “at home,” but surprisingly, 10% voted “online via P2P.”
This may not be surprising to many of you. P2P (peer to peer) […]

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This week’s episode of the EPL Talk Podcast features an exclusive interview with legendary U.S. soccer commentator JP Dellacamera.
Dellacamera previews this week’s Champions League Final (where he’ll be hosting the pre-game show starting at 2pm ET on ESPN2 on Wednesday). During the podcast interview, we take a walk down memory lane and get his thoughts […]

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According to the Irish newspaper The Sunday Business Post, ESPN has been linked with a possible bid for Setanta Sports. The reporter also mentions that BT and Virgin may also be interested.
If the interest by ESPN is true, it makes perfect sense for the American network that’s owned by Disney. Purchasing Setanta would be an […]

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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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Don’t laugh, but ABC’s coverage of the 2006 World Cup has been nominated for an Emmy. No, I’m not making this up.
While many of us, myself included, thought that ABC’s coverage was an embarrassment, especially the ineptitude displayed by baseball-come-soccer commentator Dave O’Brien, the clueless powers that be at the Emmy’s obviously thought different.
The shame […]

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What was the first soccer web site you remember visiting?
For me, my memory is a little dusty but I do remember being in college in 1996 and my professor was raving about the Mosaic web browser in one of her classes. Around that time, I remember using a bunch of different services to access the […]

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