by Paul Bestall on September 29, 2009 · 5 comments
Patrick Barclay is one of Britain’s best known and respected football journalists. With a career of over 30 years working for a variety of publications and numerous appearances on television talking about the game, Patrick is always worthy of attention.Currently writing for the Times, Patrick has a wide knowledge of the beautiful game and many [...]
by Chris Riordan on September 4, 2009 · 0 comments
In partnership with Russian Football Now, EPL Talk presents the second episode of RNF’s podcast.
An active week in papers sees former AS Roma manager Luciano Spalletti take an additional step toward the long-rumored more to Zenit. Meanwhile, Roman Pavlyuchenko gets priced out of his move to St. Petersburg, instead staying in London. While [...]
Football fans are not the most patient of breeds and short memories are part and parcel of the game. As Arsenal hit top form and sit comfortably within the coveted Champions League places, few Gunners will recall that spell between January and February when their attack floundered haplessly.
Shorn of their captain Cesc Fabregas, Arsenal stumbled to [...]
by Johnathan Starling on February 21, 2009 · 1 comment
For seventy minutes at the Britannia Stadium, Stoke City and Portsmouth football clubs were getting very close to contending for my ‘worst match ever watched’ title. The last twenty minutes redeemed it.
When it’s all said and done we will remember one thing from today’s match between Stoke City and Portsmouth, the penalty that should have [...]
by Johnathan Starling on February 6, 2009 · 0 comments
Micah Richards wins the Christmas stupidity award.
It took seven weeks, but we find out tonight that Micah Richards was arrested over a December 24th attack outside a Hale nightclub. It is alleged that Richards attacked an eighteen year old male. In something that Mark Hughes has had some practice with, he’s already coming out in [...]
by Johnathan Starling on February 4, 2009 · 0 comments
Well we know the Andrei Arshavin deal according to the Premier League is complete, but how much trouble was there in completing this deal?
It seems that lawyers had to be called in to make sure everything was in order as this deal was finally competed almost twenty-four hours after the deadline. What’s making this deal [...]
by Johnathan Starling on February 3, 2009 · 3 comments
Don’t you just love the weather?
Thanks to snow that has been unkind to transport within the UK, the five pm transfer deadline got extended. Now obviously the catch to that was deals had to already been agreed and loose ends tied up, but just the fact the transfer window had to be extended makes me [...]