Football Italia

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Cult football show shown on Channel 4 during the 90s, and hosted by James Richardson. There were two shows every week, a Saturday morning football show called Gazzetta and a live match on Sunday afternoons. A third show, Mezzanotte, was later introduced for the obsessives, consisting of an entire re-run of one of the weekend's games, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The Saturday morning show was particulary arrogant, as it mainly consisted of Richardson sitting at cafe, with a fucking massive ice cream sundae, sipping down coffee while mocking the ridiculous transfer rumours the sports papers contained, while holding up a copy of the Gazetto della Sport as if anyone in Britain could actually understand the headline anyway.

Was at its peak during the Gazza years, featuring several comedy caper laced interviews and features.

Contents 1 CULT Football Italia Moments 2 CULT Cast Members 3 Great things about the live match 4 What Idiots Thought The Bloke Shouted At The End Of The Titles 5 Some Actual Words From The Titles

[edit] CULT Football Italia Moments

• Roma's final game of a Scudetto winning season being cut off ten minutes before the end because Channel 4 decided a Friends repeat was more important and just casually ended the broadcast abruptly. Was also the last ever Football Italia on Channel 4 iirc.
  • See also: War of the Monster Trucks
• Elvis Costello turning up at the San Siro as Richardson's co-presenter, Richardson going NUCLEAR with puns. "Oliveira's Army"
• Ray Wilkins announcing "oooh, it's quite chilly here in Italy" from a London broom cupboard after being explicitly told by the show's producers to make no such references.

[edit] CULT Cast Members

• Mauricio Ganz
• Daniel Fonseca
• Abel Balbo
• Aron Winter
• Ruben Sosa
• See Also: CULT Football Italia XI

[edit] Great things about the live match

• James Richardson
• Peter Brackley
• Gary Bloom
• Paul Elliot
• Ray Wilkins
• Kenneth Wolstenholme
• Richardson always making a childish comment about one of the pundits "really liking Totti" whenever one of the pundits praised said player.
• The recycled Italia '90 graphics

[edit] What Idiots Thought The Bloke Shouted At The End Of The Titles

"GOL LAZIO!"

[edit] Some Actual Words From The Titles

• ARBITRO e GUARDA LINEA
• BAGGIO
• a list of all the teams
• CAMPIONATO
• DI CALCIO
• ITALIANO!
• TIFOSI
• PLATT
• All football positions ever up to the mid 90s, in Italian
• IL DIVINO CODINO
• GAZZA
• GOL
• NOT FUCKING LAZIO