EPL Talk has been named the best website in the 2009 Soccerlens Awards picking up both the readers’ choice and editor’s choice awards in the Best Competition Site category. Plus EPL Talk came in third place in the Best Football Podcast of 2009 award beating World Football Daily.

“Over the years, EPL Talk has become a football blogging icon – coupled with the podcast, it’s quite possibly one of the best football blogs around,” said Ahmed Bilal, owner of Soccerlens and organizer of the 2009 Soccerlens Awards. “EPL Talk edges out mainstream media sites like the BBC and the Guardian by giving you proper football analysis and wide-lens coverage of the English Premier League.”

In the Best Competition Site category, which featured sites that focused on leagues and cup tournaments, EPL Talk won 65% of the votes.

As for the Best Football Podcast of 2009, The Football Ramble won the readers’ choice award followed by The Guardian’s Football Weekly and then the EPL Talk Podcast, which features daily interviews with some of the biggest names in football including David Conn, Jon Champion, Joe Royle, Jan Molby, Steve McManaman, Robbie Earle, Martin Tyler and many others.

On behalf of EPL Talk, I’d like to thank you — the soccer community — for making EPL Talk number one. And also thanks to the bloggers at EPL Talk who make the articles possible. And thanks to EPL Talk Podcast host Kartik Krishnaiyer for getting the bronze medal in a competitive category.

Be sure to check out the complete list of winning blogs, podcasts and football websites on the Soccerlens Awards page.

EPL Talk has been nominated in the following two categories of the latest Soccerlens Awards:

• Best football podcast, and
• Best competition site.

If you enjoy the EPL Talk Podcast and EPL Talk website, we highly encourage you to vote for us by clicking on the above links (one vote per person, and no registration is required, so it’ll take less than 30 seconds).

And please don’t forget to vote in the other award categories.

Voting closes January 31, so don’t delay.

Thanks to everyone who voted for EPL Talk in the 2008 Soccerlens Awards. Alas, EPL Talk didn’t win, but we did achieve the runner-up spot in the Best British Blog category, as well as having the honor of narrowly beating The Guardian’s Football Weekly in the Best Football Podcast category. Take that Barry Glendenning ; )

In the coming weeks, stay tuned to EPL Talk for some big changes including a brand-new redesign, new podcast interviews, more posts and more. I won’t let the cat out of the bag quite yet, but I’m confident you’ll be pleased with the enhancements.

Now back to the regularly scheduled programming!

Fellow blogger and friend Ahmed Bilal over at Soccerlens has launched the 2008 edition of the Soccerlens Awards, and EPL Talk has been nominated in two categories: Best British Blog and Best Football Podcast.

If you haven’t voted yet, please take 30 seconds and vote for EPL Talk in the Best British Blog and Best Football Podcast categories. I appreciate your support and loyalty.

In the meantime, EPL Talk will be launching a special contest on Tuesday morning to subscribers of the EPL Talk E-mail Newsletter. We’ll be giving away two prizes — an official Fox Soccer Channel bag filled with soccer merchandise, and a new soccer book — so keep an eye on your in-box on Tuesday morning to learn more. And if you haven’t opted-in to the list yet, be sure to do it between now and Monday night so you won’t miss out on the contest details.

When you type the words “soccer blogs” into Google, the search engine returns a listing of 2.9 million pages indexed. Rather than wade through the massive amount of blogs, here are the top 5 blogs based on the number of subscribers to their Feedburner RSS feeds:

1. ArseBlog, 2,991 subscribers
2. Soccerlens, 1,565
3. EPL Talk, 466
4. Soccer Shout, 312
5. Throughball, 171

Sadly, Throughball.com is on hiatus. Whether Josh, the blogger, will return looks unlikely.The top 5 list was compiled by researching over 100 of the top soccer blogs. Only blogs that publicly feature on their web site the number of Feedburner RSS feeds they have were included.

EPL Talk has been nominated in two categories for the
Soccerlens 2007 Awards Readers’ Choice Poll.

If your a fan of this site and podcast, please take a moment and vote for us in the categories of Best EPL Blog and Best Football Podcast. We appreciate your support!