The title race is effectively over, but the battle at the bottom of the Premier League as well as the battle for Europe is still alive and kicking. To dissect all of the weekend's action and major storylines are Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer on this week's episode of the EPL Talk Podcast. Other topics […]

Wins by Manchester United and City have set up a derby in the FA Cup semifinals, though the story of the weekend will be the Gunners, who saw an exit to a third competition in two weeks in failing to beat a patchwork United side on Saturday. As downtrodden as Gooners were after the shock […]

The Top Five have separated themselves from the league after Sunday's draw at Stamford Bridge. Ciaran Clark's stoppage time equalizer means five points separate fifth place Chelsea from Sunderland, the Black Cats' win over Blackburn vaulting Steve Bruce's charge over Bolton, into sixth place. On today's recording of the EPL Talk podcast, we'll talk about […]

Last week I was fortunate to be joined by John Nicholson, whose work you know from EPLTalk.com as well as Football365.co.uk. In addition to talking about his book, We Ate All The Pies, we discussed the plight of his club (Middlesbrough), football's place on Boxing Day, and the new shape of the Premier League. For […]

On this edition of the EPL Talk Podcast, I am joined by Kartik Krishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna to look back on mid-week, Champions League action, talk about the news around the league, as well as look forward to this weekend's league action. From Arsenal's loss in Donetsk, to Damien Comolli's return to the league, to […]

The Guardian's Jonathan Wilson is one of the most influential soccer writers in the English-language world, whose ability to explain the tactical side of the game has changed the way the game is covered. On today's podcast, the author of Sunderland: A Club Transformed, Behind the Curtain, and Inverting the Pyramid joins us to discuss […]

Perhaps the most famous Portsmouth fan in North America, Chuck Culpepper documented his conversion to football fan and Pompey supporter in Bloody Confused (or, in the U.K., Up Pompey). In the wake of a trying season at Fratton Park, Chuck rejoins the EPL Talk podcast to shares his views on the turmoil, talk about his […]

In part four of the interview series with Patrick Barclay, the acclaimed author and journalist talks about living in the shadow of Sir Alex Ferguson, his upcoming biography of Ferguson which is due out later this summer, and getting inside the mind of The Special One, Jose Mourinho. Interviewed by Laurence McKenna in the privacy […]

Tottenham finally broke through in the North London Derby, keeping Arsenal six points behind Chelsea, whose Tuesday victory over Bolton has the Blues four points clear atop the league. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Laurence McKenna and myself discuss these and the other mid-week matches as well as preview this weekend's fixtures […]

On Tuesday's edition of the EPL Talk Podcast we have an interview I conducted with GolTV's Phil Schoen. Phil covers the La Liga, the Bundesliga, Brazil, Colombia, as well as other circuits for GolTV, where he was been able of cover Premier League sides through the channel's broadcasts of Europa League. We talk about he […]

In addition to being a contributor to EPL Talk, author John Nicholson writes a regular feature for Football365.com. On today's episode of the EPL Talk Podcast, John joins me to talk about two of his recent pieces, detailing the problems at Chelsea and Liverpool, asking how each club could have avoided their recent dilemmas.