FIFA 09 will be released in North America this Tuesday. To coincide with the launch, EPL Talk's Johnathan Starling will interview EA Sports Gameplay Producer Aaron McHardy. If you have any questions about the new game, what it's like behind the scenes at EA or anything else FIFA 09-related, please post your questions here before [. Click to continue reading...

Firstly I want to make it clear that I am not an English fan, I am from Ireland, but what I heard whenever I was watching the England game on Saturday on TV was one of the worse things that I have ever heard at a football match.So Ashley Cole makes a mistake and presents [...] Click to continue reading...

Follow England against Kazakhstan live and online today via the EPL Talk Chat featuring football fans discussing the match from around the world. Kick off time is 12:15 pm ET/5:15 pm BST. The chat will begin at 12:00 pm ET/5 pm BST. Check this space for the EPL Talk Chat Button If you're new here, you may want [. Click to continue reading...

Where can you find England against Kazakhstan on US TV tomorrow? The important 2010 World Cup Qualifying match will be shown live on Fox Soccer Channel beginning at Noon ET/9am PT. This is part of the deal that Fox Sports International announced in May whereby Fox Soccer Channel has the TV rights to England's home matches [. Click to continue reading...

Not to be outdone by rivals Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur has announced a strategic partnership with a Major League Soccer club. In 2007, Arsenal announced a partnership with Colorado. Now Spurs have announced a deal with San Jose Earthquakes. The major difference with the Spurs deal is that it sets the wheel in motion for Tottenham to [. Click to continue reading...

The import business is not what it used to be. Over the years, I can't even begin to imagine how much money I've spent on import records, CDs, magazines, newspapers, books and crisps from my mother country, the United Kingdom. These days, the import business has lost its flavor. Most things Anglophile are available pretty readily [. Click to continue reading...

Other than a few soccer blogs and a handful of literate newspapers, there isn't a plenitude of intelligent football writing available. But there is one last bastion that we can continue to depend on and that's football books. A good way to find out which books to buy are to find the ones nominated for the [. Click to continue reading...

If you're a Comcast Cable customer and you want Setanta Sports, the time to act is now. I just spoke with a source inside Comcast Cable who confirmed that their head office in Philadelphia has signed a contract with Setanta Sports so that local Comcast Cable companies have the green light to add the 24/7 soccer [. Click to continue reading...

Creditors have contacted at least three Premier League clubs to express their concern that their level of debt is unsustainable, according to Paul Kelso of The Daily Telegraph. The question is which clubs do you believe are the ones most likely to have been contacted? Vote now. <a href="http://answers. Click to continue reading...

Michel Platini is making a fool of himself again this week after his tirade against the prominence of English teams in European football. If you caught his interview on Sky Sports, you wlll have seem him ramble on and on, venting his anger and seeming quite unfocused and unpresidential especially for someone who is [. Click to continue reading...

  FA chairman David Treisman mentioned introducing a salary cap, to combat the "very tangible dangers" of the current financial climate.  Premier League clubs have a combined £3 billion of debt.  But, is wage expenditure really the most prominent issue? Yes, players make an absurd amount of money for wearing short pants and playing a kid's game. Click to continue reading...

The last time Tottenham endured such a poor start to a season was the year the Titanic went down, and if the dreadful results continue at White Hart Lane in the coming weeks then manager Juande Ramos will be the one sinking into unemployment. The board and directors are unforgiving at Tottenham, as Martin Jol well [. Click to continue reading...

UEFA's general secretary David Taylor has lost his marbles. He's warned clubs that they may face being banned from competing in European competitions if they continue to carry excessive debt. "There would be forms of communication, even warnings, even reprimands before one would ever get to a situation of exclusion but it's absolutely possible," said Taylor. Click to continue reading...

This week, some of the top decision makers in world football met at the Leaders In Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London to discuss a host of topics. Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, spoke about his vision for making the Premier League into a global league. When interviewed about the topic, Scudamore [. Click to continue reading...

With the prediction by Lord Triesman, head of the Football Association, that the current global economic crisis could spell a ‘terrible danger' to clubs with spiralling debt, meaning could we actually see a Premier League club go to the wall? According to Triesman the Premier League is currently in £3bn worth of debt so the [. Click to continue reading...