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If you’re searching for a way to experience Saturday’s match between Aston Villa and West Ham United online, join the EPL Talk Chat hosted by BC John.

We’ll have Villa, West Ham and neutral fans from around the world chatting in real-time about the final. We’ll also be able to tip you off regarding A. Villa v West Ham Utd. radio coverage and how to listen live (depending on what part of the world you live in). The match kicks off on Saturday, October 6th at 10am ET/3pm GMT. You can access the EPL Talk Chat from the EPL Talk homepage.

If you have your own webcam, feel free to switch it on and point it at you so we can see you wearing your club’s colors with pride whether it be Villa, West Ham or any other team.

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Mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 3rd at 11pm ET for the return of the EPL Talk Show, a live one-hour Internet radio show featuring The Gaffer and a special guest.

The special guest for this upcoming episode is Peter Brown, best known for the Divers & Cheats Podcast, and an integral part of the Champions Soccer Radio Network. Brown is a passionate and charismatic soccer presenter and will join me, The Gaffer, for an intriguing look at the stories from the Premier League as well as our reaction to the Champions League matches.

This Wednesday’s episode will be the third episode from the EPL Talk Show. While the EPL Talk Podcast focuses on interviews with some of the most interesting people inside the Premier League, the EPL Talk Show is more of a casual and fun discussion about some of the stories as well as a look at the upcoming weekend of Premier League matches scheduled.

For the audience member, you can listen live via the Internet and participate in an online chat with the studio audience. Plus you can call in during the show to ask any soccer-related questions to Peter Brown or me.

The EPL Talk Show will be released as a podcast episode on the EPL Talk Podcast stream/feed the following day (Thursday). But as an extra incentive to show up for the live show on Wednesday night, we’ll be giving away one copy of “Love & Blood,” the new book about the 2006 World Cup from Fox Soccer writer and U.S. soccer expert Jamie Trecker.

To make sure you get the most out of the live EPL Talk Show and you don’t miss a minute, be sure to sign-up for free with Talkshoe via this link. That way, you can sign-up and download the console you’ll need to enjoy the experience of the live event with plenty of time to spare before the show kicks off.

The EPL Talk Show will be broadcast live every Wednesday night at 11pm ET/8pm PT. Be sure you don’t miss it.

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At the conclusion of the most recent La Liga season, the amount of interest in the premier Spanish league was perhaps the greatest it has ever been worldwide (and that includes the United States).

However, the continuing media war in Spain is crippling La Liga’s chances of building a worldwide brand and, at the same time, is ruining the league’s chances of closing the gap between the popularity of the league compared to the world’s most popular sports league, the Premier League.

The petty feud just goes to show how professional and polished the Premier League business model is. While the Spanish media giants battle thus preventing us from watching many of the top Spanish games, the Premier League is growing in popularity. The quality of the production continues to improve, and the level of entertainment on the pitch is still exciting to watch.

There were more reasons than ever before for new and old soccer fans to watch La Liga this season. The interest is seeing Thierry Henry play at Barcelona. The continual rise of Sevilla and their wonderful art of football. The strengthening of the Real Madrid side and the prospect of watching how Arjen Robben would adapt to the Spanish game. The list goes on and on.

The situation is so terrible with the media war that even viewers in Spain are suffering (you have to read the report from Mando at La Liga Talk, who is currently in Spain, to comprehend how unpredictable and atrocious the war has become).

In the United States, the company that is suffering the most from the war in Spain is undoubtedly GolTV who have been able to show only some matches. The momentum that GolTV was building after La Liga followed by Copa America was impressive. Now the balloon has burst and it’s going to take time to rebuild once the media war concludes. Sadly no one knows how long this affair can drag on.

What it illustrates, though, is that despite the Premier League having arguably an inferior product to La Liga (on the pitch, that is) that the winner is the one who can provide a consistent quality product. Right now, the quality may be evident on the pitches across Spain, but if the world isn’t watching it, we’re missing out and that’s a crying shame.

This isn’t a short-term issue either. Even after the media war concludes, sports networks around the world must be wondering whether a media war like this can raise its ugly head once again. It’s not only the soccer fans that are suffering, but so too is the trust and business relationships that La Liga previously enjoyed with broadcasters. That loss of trust could take years to fix.

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Life sometimes gets in the way of football.

Juggling three kids, a full-time job and all of the boring aspects of life (getting a haircut, picking up or dropping off drycleaning, getting an oil change, etc), you may find yourself in a similar predicament to me where midweek matches become quite a chore.

If only life was easier where I could support one club and put my foot down and insist on watching them and only them. “Ey by gum lad, I’ll only watch Middlesbrough on me telly.” Not true, but if you did support Boro, you’d only see them on television maybe once or twice a month (and that would be a good month).

Instead, we had last night’s Spurs versus Aston Villa match on Setanta. Here in the States, I got home last night and rubbed my hands with glee at the prospect of watching Spurs (well, not really, but I was excited about watching the match).

Then I realized something. Something terrible. The Monday matches are now on Setanta instead of Fox.

Gutted, because I have Setanta but only on ITVN and no way of taping it (at least, not legally), I felt the sick feeling at the bottom of my stomach that I had missed the match. I decided to tune into Setanta at around 8pm ET with the hope of seeing it re-aired. Instead all I saw was 45 minutes of mind-numbing interviews with Irish rugby players after their defeat against Argentina.

So I decided instead to suck it up and watch the highlights from the news segment of the taped Through The Night from Sky via Fox. Disappointed enough knowing that I missed the match, I was almost despondent when I heard the Sky presenters, at the top of the news program, mention how Spurs had their biggest comeback in their 125 years of football.

Still, I held on with awaited breath to see footage and hear the stories from the big match of the day. As is often the case with Sky, the hype was bigger than the actual substance. No clips from the match and no interviews. What?! I then realized that Setanta had the coverage in the UK and Ireland and, as a result, Sky wouldn’t have the rights to the highlights or footage (at least not last night).

Bloody hell.

So where do you go when you don’t have highlights and you need an immediate fix? The Premier League website? No. FoxSoccer.com’s highlights? No. The club website? Pah! Are you kidding me? Of course, I made my journey over to 101greatgoals.com who provide faster turnaround of clips than even the broadcasters themselves can do (online, that is).

The realization about midweek matches is that they’re often more exciting than day matches on weekends. While I won’t be as far as saying that midweek matches should be “banned” for the sake of the working man (and being able to squeeze them in), I’m sensing that I — more than ever — need to move from ITVN to DirecTV or DISH.

When I do, murphy’s law will strike me. I can imagine myself getting home for a football match on a Monday after work and having all of my errands completed. Sitting in front of the television, I pull up the Monday night football match taped earlier on my DVR. I sit back and watch what will undoubtedly be one of the most boring nil-nil draws known to mankind. Ahh, football sometimes gets in the way of life.

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