The design of official Premier League club websites is becoming as predictable as the race for the Big Four. Late last week, Everton launched a new design of its EvertonFC.com website and surprise, surprise it looks like most other football websites out there. As is often the case in Internet marketing, competitors look at what [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal Football Club launched their redesigned official club website this morning, and boy is it different. While the previous design was sleek, the new one is much simpler and more closely resembles a typical football website we've grown accustomed to especially with the placement of the left and top navigation bars. Click to continue reading...

A friendly game that I managed to watch in full the unofficial 39th game everyone was talking about ended in a rather one sided affair. I don't read too much into pre-season fixtures anyway, but it's a welcome distraction from the other transfer rumours that fill football websites in the summer. It's also a [. Click to continue reading...

Not to be outdone by its London rivals, Tottenham Hotspur has recently launched a redesigned version of its website at http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/ The new Spurs site features a sleek design but it's nothing new in comparison to other recently redesigned sites such as the ones from Chelsea and Portsmouth. Click to continue reading...

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Chelsea today launched a redesigned version of its club website. The new look-and-feel of the site is completely different than the previous incarnation which was a very difficult to navigate site designed in Flash that was launched in November 2006 by Premium TV. The new site is much more intuitive and interactive than the previous version. Click to continue reading...

One of the greatest aspects of the internet is the ability for communities to come together to build exhaustive collections of information, which would be impossible if developed by the printing press. The perfect example of this is the Historical Kits website, which is a work of passion developed by Dave Moor. Click to continue reading...

When was the last time you saw a banner advertisement on the homepage of a major website promoting soccer in the United States? I had to rub my eyes when I saw it earlier Thursday afternoon on the homepage of Yahoo Finance, one of the top financial websites in the U.S. (see screenshot below). The banner [. Click to continue reading...

If you're not reading the other sites in our network, you're missing some great articles. Soccer On Dish writes about how the curse of ITVN has returned to Setanta Sports. La Liga Talk interviews Guillem Balague. Jeff Hash at Major League Soccer Talk writes about the latest results in the U.S. Open Cup (the tournament that's [. Click to continue reading...

Over the next several weeks, EPL Talk will be reviewing all of the websites for the 20 Premier League clubs. The first club website to be reviewed is Portsmouth and for good reason. It's one of the best ones in the Premiership. If you've ever met a Portsmouth fan, you'll know that they're very passionate about [. Click to continue reading...

I don't know about you, but I am just sick to death of seeing pictures of footballers' stunning girlfriends frolicking around in the sun on holiday pasted all over football websites. What do they have to do with anything?

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Time shifting, the recording of programming to watch or listen to later at a more convenient time, has changed the way we consume media, but I believe it's also led to the increased popularity of soccer worldwide. Out of all of the Premier League, Euro 2008 and Champions League soccer that you watch, how much of [. Click to continue reading...

It's been a good week for EPL Talk. We broke the 500 barrier in terms of number of RSS subscribers (see screenshot above). We were ranked the number one soccer blog for several days this week by Ballhype. And we were interviewed on the homepage of the Euro 2008 Statistics website as well as touted [. Click to continue reading...

If your obsession about football isn't limited to just the Premier League and Euro 2008, be sure to visit the other sites in our network. At Champions League Talk, Lonnie Smetana has been writing about the top stories among continental European teams such as Porto being allowed to participate in the Champions League and Perrin leaving [. Click to continue reading...

In the world of technology, the top sites aren't magazines or newspapers. They're blogs. Web sites such as TechCrunch, Engadget and Boing Boing lead the way with the latest breaking news and analysis, as well as receiving more visitors than some of the giants in tech publishing. While soccer blogs aren't in the same echelon as [. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United's web site received over 5.4 million unique visitors in May, 2008, which is a record for the site. The website has been managed by IMG Media since 1998 and has trebled the amount of traffic on its site every two years. The figures were boosted by the launch of Chinese, Japanese and Korean [. Click to continue reading...

This will be my only post today, I need to recover from yesterday's emotional shock. My post yesterday evening was full of anger, sadness and disappointment although I still believe (and most football websites across Europe) that yesterday's game was a mere matter of luck and inexperience. If one looks Click to continue reading...

First, go Croatia (since that's what's on my TV). Second, I'll be recording (with my old fashioned VCR) both Austria/Poland and the Dynamo/Revs matches. Because I am that lame (and work 4-9:15). Third, two links. Footballers, Fans Express Themselves On Players' HomepagesFrom Wesley Sneijder's favorite film to Philipp Lahm's pet rabbits -- soccer stars' homepages promise normal fans personal Click to continue reading...

If BBC Sport could be as creative and slick with their live football coverage as they are with their promotional trailers, the Beeb would rule the TV roost once again and kick Sky Sports to the gutter. Such is the artistry and fine detail that's included in BBC Sport's trailer for Euro 2008 (see below). Click to continue reading...

There are some movers and shakers in the list of the top 10 most visited soccer websites by visitors from the United States, according to Hitwise for the week ending May 17th. Compared to the week ending April 26th, ESPN Soccernet is still number one, but with slightly less overall market share. Goal. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United is not just European champions as well as Premier League title holders. The team's web site is also the number one most visited English football club by visitors from the United States. Here's the top 10 list for the week ending May 17, 2008 (source: Hitwise). Manchester United Arsenal Chelsea Liverpool Leeds United West Ham United Newcastle United Manchester City Fulham Wigan Athletic There [. Click to continue reading...

Here are the most visited football websites in the UK as of the week ending May 3, 2008, according to Hitwise: Liverpool FC, 4.68% Manchester United, 4.13% TEAMtalk Football, 3.43% FootyMad.com message boards, 2.37% Arsenal.com, 2.19% Leeds United, 2.11% Rangers FC, 1.69% FootyMad, 1.65% Full Time, 1. Click to continue reading...

Google has added a new feature to its search engine that displays upcoming fixtures and recent results for Premier League clubs. All you have to do is type in the name of any of the 20 clubs and the information will be displayed at the top of the screen above the search engine results. For example, [. Click to continue reading...

If you're a fan of soccer/football, love to write and want to share your thoughts and analysis with other readers around the world, we want you! I'm currently looking for bloggers who are interested in writing for any of the following sites: Major League Soccer Talk, La Liga Talk, Serie A Talk, Champions League Talk, Championship Talk, World Cup Buzz (for news [. Click to continue reading...

Have you ever wondered what are the most popular soccer sites that American visit? EPL Talk has the answer thanks to Hitwise. Here are the most recent statistics based on market share for the week ending April 26: ESPN Soccernet, 15.93% Fox Sports Soccer, 7.50% Soccer.com, 5.66% Goal.com, 5.04% UEFA. Click to continue reading...