Football Italia with Elvis Costello

Football fan Elvis Costello joins James Richardson on Football Italia on April 30, 1995, discussing the weekend's matches and the Fiorentina/Juventus match they both attended.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• football
• soccer
• juventus
• fiorentina
• ravanelli
• baggio
• genoa
• sampdoria

[jeff9868]

Why don't channel 4 bring this back Serie A have a game on saturday at 7.30pm GMT Why not put this up against the Dancing and Cowellfactor?

surely that would be a ratings winner

[ZigZagWanderer]

Elvis is NOT talking shit is he ! He definitely knows what he's talking about !

[gcorking12]

PLEASE someone bring James Richardson back. He's fantastic, i know he's doing stuff for The Guardian but still, the BBC or Sky could do with him. Or Channel 4 stop being tight and bring back this brilliant show.

[Cruyff1987]

@unspokenscene97 he has sky italia!

[Hulmaldo]

I miss Gazzetta. What a way to start a Saturday it was! And James Richardson is imperious!

[TheRealMc101]

@childishbehaviour It was Paolo Montero... He is still my favorite player... Can't forget his punch right in the face of Di Biagio without any apparent reason... And when someone asked him: "why?" he said: "I'm just a bad guy!" He's been elected as one of the 50 Juventus' stars of all time. "Paolo Montero picchia per noi!" we used to sing at the old Delle Alpi in Turin... Good Old Memories... I didn't knew English people loved so much our (now decayed) Serie A. Well, decayed just like Italy =/

[baggiejules]

I love James Richardson is struggling not to laugh at his own Elvis Costello puns when reading the half time scores. A great presenter who doesn't take himself too seriously and treats his audience like intelligent human beings rather than just spoonfeeding cliched rubbish.

Makes me sad that he doesn't have the regular spot that he so deserves these days.

[townsjim]

I used to love the music at the end, bring football italia back you c**ts!

[SuperJuventus1986]

@jeff9868 exactly i used 2 love this programme

[DarrenBonJovi]

Is that Jimbo??!

[owdl114]

James Richardson HAD hair??1?!!?

[childishbehaviour]

Oh man! why did Ch4 can this for T4 and all that teen shit? used to love watching this on a sunday, vaguely remember Rawhide or Board Stupid was shown before the 1.45 match. One game that sticks out in memory was the match between Juventus and Perugia in 2000 with the water logged pitch. Going back further I remember the likes of Ravanelli, Zola, Vialli, Signori and who was that Juve defender who always got sent off loads? ahhh good memories!