Pull out your bibs and smocks on peeps, this Sunday there's a mouthwatering match taking place at the top of the table and shit is about to get messy. My plan is to hit the pub and over a few pints watch an inform Chelsea lay some heavy blows into ... Click to continue reading...

Fulham manager Roy Hodgson has warned the Premier League's top teams not to write off Liverpool in the title race.
The Reds are nine points behind league leaders Chelsea after losing 3-1 at Craven Cottage on Saturday but Hodgson still believes they are challengers.
"If I was Manchester United or Arsenal or Chelsea I don't think I would be writing them off," Hodgson told 5 Live's Sportsweek programme. Click to continue reading...

That's Bullard Snr. we're talking about. According to Eat Out Magazine, Bullard Jnr, who plies his trade with Hull City, has splashed out on the The One Bell pub in Crayford, Kent. But if you're hoping to bump into Jimmy pulling pints on a Saturday night, think again.

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Raphael Honigstein makes his living as a football interpreter. Best known in the English speaking world for his columns on German football in the Guardian and participation in that newspaper's well-known football podcast, he plays the reverse role in his home country, acting as English football correspondent for the Suddetsche Zeitung.

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I caught my first glimpse of West Brom yesterday, and I was mildly impressed by what I saw. After warming up for my first ever trip to the Hawthorns in the delightfully hoppy Wellington in Birmingham's centre, I inevitably entered that myopic state where three pints transform a bunch of aimless wastrels into a squad of dynamoes, and my irrational expectation seemed inspired when Jamie Mackie, Click to continue reading...

Ist Pint

Arsenal took to the field, on what started out as a very beautiful afternoon, and within five minutes were giving the illusion of being the better team and being in complete control. And why not, everyone of the City mercenaries had previously been at a club that had been tonked by Arsenal at one time or another, add to that, a couple of Arsenal rejects and there should never have been any doubt that Arsenal would appear the more confident and boss the game, and so it was.

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Raise your hand if any of the following criteria apply to you:

- have you been a football supporter for ten years or less?

- have you "picked" a top European club to follow?

- do you currently reside in one of the 50 States that make up this fine country?

If you answered Yes to any or all of these questions, you very well may be eligible to also have a "2nd team".

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by CARL ELDRIDGE Man alive, where do we start? Every sports editor worth his salt was salivating over the prospect of picturing our great leader in volleying action with the headline play on 'bottle' and without exception the papers carry exactly that in today's coverage of the Arsenal.

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The 24-year-old winger crashed his Porsche into a lamppost after drinking four pints and two spirits at a gig. Click to continue reading...

Admit it, after the lacklustre opening day game against Stoke City, you simply couldn't see Burnley picking up anything from their next 2 games with Everton and Manchester United visiting Turf Moor. They were tough games, that most established Premiership sides wouldn't be relishing to have back to back so how the Clarets fans must have felt, I can only imagine.

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When I first started watching English football, I rarely got to watch the league matches live. I worked in a bar with no TVs. My friends George and Noel would bring us VHS tapes of the weekend matches. George taped the Setanta matches and my Noel taped the FSC matches (often tacking on Sopranos episodes from HBO after each match).

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St Albans 1-1 Lewes (22:08:09)
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Such is the joy of following The Rooks on the road that our numbers are now swelling. As well as stalwarts Cynical Dave and Big Deaks, we were joined in this trip to St Albans by Mr Fuller of TBIR fame, his daughter Lolly and newest EFW member and all round good chap Al McCulloch. Click to continue reading...

The waiting is finally over. The 2009/10 Barclays Premier League season starts this weekend and it is time to bring out our crystal ball and get some week one predictions.

With Manchester City spending big over the summer and Everton, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur all improving their squads, will this be the season that the big four has a new member?

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The waiting is finally over. The 2009/10 Barclays Premier League season starts this weekend and it is time to bring out our crystal ball and get some week one predictions.

With Manchester City spending big over the summer and Everton, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur all improving their squads, will this be the season that the big four has a new member?

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Braintree Town 3-0 Lewes (11::08:09)
Welcome back the beautiful (conference) south...and relax. Last Saturday there were cheesy grins all round on the terraces of the Dripping Pan, Lewes as we raised a glass to the previous seasons relegation. We toasted the return of beer on the terraces with a welcome pint of Harvey's whilst swinging a fast shoe to new Lewes anthem 'Hippipolla' by Sigor Ros. Click to continue reading...

There's Premier League football, and then there's Sunday League football. One is glamourous. The other is a mixture of aching limbs, no glory, pints of beer and having a laugh.

The latter is portrayed in a surprisingly trendy viral video from The FA (yes, the Football Association). It's a spoof of the Nike video that was released a few months ago.

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In Parts 1 & 2 I nominated Manchester City 2-3 Liverpool and Portsmouth 2-3 Liverpool for Classic Match consideration. These nominees come from a supporter's perspective. I invite others to say what they deem a potential classic from their own perspectives in the comment section. I'll cover one more match tomorrow.

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After hearing from fellow Americans who follow the Premier League, I've been pondering the idea of coming to English football as an outsider. Here's how my own love affair from distance got started...

Part 1: Inhaling the World Cup...

Back in 2006, my inner football junkie came alive when I discovered the World Cup.

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Is Setanta actually charging me twenty-five bucks to watch a World Cup qualifier against a below average team just because it features the 'stars' of the Eee Pee El? Who will pay this amount of money in a depressed economy? Who does Setanta think we are? Twenty five bucks. That's FOUR pints plus tax and tip. Click to continue reading...

I don't normally post about watch parties, but since there's been no official announcement from the team on a location for watch parties this year, and not everyone reads bigsoccer, I wanted to tell you about the watch party this weekend at Coach's at 103rd and Wornall, just off of I-435. Coach's is working with the Hillcrest Syndicate and the American Outlaws KC chapter to give Wizards' fans a place to get together this weekend to watch the game. Click to continue reading...

Give the interview a listen - I hear hes starting against Los Angles! Click Here to listen to Interview Remember, tomorrow at the British Bulldog at the corner of Stout and Broadway in Downtown Denver - $3 pints cuz they... Click to continue reading...

The news that Scotland #38; Rangers duo Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor were benched for a late night Dutch rendezvous with a couple of pints is really a non-starter. International suspensions due to boozed-up shenanigans are as much a part of the game as the ball, boots and Sepp Blatter#8217;s shadow. Click to continue reading...

By JAMES CLARKGianfranco Zola has landed. What a time to be a Hammer! Yes, the jury is still out over whether he will replicate his stellar, attack-minded accomplishments as a player while prowling the touchline in a suit and tie. But you have to like the odds. I have been told by Jim Sturman -- a name familiar to many of you Hammers' fans -- that "Gianfranco is a wonderful man. Click to continue reading...

Not that I feel very sympathetic to a multimillionaire who can't "adjust" to working in a foreign country without the help of a specialized minder, but this Simon Kuper column on the struggles of relocating footballers contains a couple gems. First, his description of the core of English football culture ("drinking 20 pints of beer in a night") is one for the ages. Click to continue reading...

Out of the 76 teams playing in EPL Talk's private version of the Euro 2008 Fantasy Football League competition, here are the top 10 managers as of this morning: Riverdale FC, James Dutra, 95 points Rafa's Redmen, David James, 89 points SPAOTP FC, Chris Oakley, 87 points KambeNFC, Blawak Rakus, 86 points Indian Devils, Sujayjumar Bedekar, 86 pints The Estadio, Reynna [. Click to continue reading...

6 pints + comedy jacket = much amusement.
Borussia Monchengladbach fanhouse.
Borussia-Park.
Commerzbank Arena - home to Eintracht Frankfurt.
Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0 Arminia Bielefeld (05.11.05)
Borussia Monchengladbach 0-0 Hamburg (06.11.05)
Another trip where we used Cologne as a base and purchased a 'weekender' train ticket to go to our games. Click to continue reading...

Real Mallorca 1-1 Real Madrid (05:04:08)

I raised an eyebrow when my wife asked if I wanted to visit some friends of hers who she hadn't seen for 15 years on the Balearic island of Mallorca.

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A 12ft x 12ft x 18ft SuperSlide.. A Honda PSi 125 rental... A batman costume hire... Or an England women's player with enough change for a few pints after the game. Click to continue reading...

A 12ft x 12ft x 18ft SuperSlide.. A Honda PSi 125 rental... A batman costume hire... Or an England women's player with enough change for a few pints after the game. Click to continue reading...

A 12ft x 12ft x 18ft SuperSlide.. A Honda PSi 125 rental... A batman costume hire... Or an England women's player with enough change for a few pints after the game. Click to continue reading...