Football Italia

Originally Posted by dunk

The story of how he got the job and then just flew by the seat of his pants for a decade is just brilliant. There's absolutely no chance that could happen now and we'll be robbed of the proper characters as a result Just more shit like that Jake bloke of BT etc.

Haven't heard it tbh. Though I do know he only spoke Italian and knew a bit about Serie A was because of a Roman girl he was after

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Haven't heard it tbh. Though I do know he only spoke Italian and knew a bit about Serie A was because of a Roman girl he was after

get it listened to, well worth it

"I got the job because of the italian tongue, in more than one way"



dry as £#%&!. like dunk says could listen to him all day.


some top anecdotes - where he gets escorted away from trouble by the genoese ultras he must have lived some life during that period.

Iain Dowie was a really good listen as well.

Love Jimbo, puts all the other football presenters to shame,

https://youtu.be/DDT6ev1_RYI

on tonight at 10 just when the boxing starts...

Originally Posted by ziggyman17

Love Jimbo, puts all the other football presenters to shame,

https://youtu.be/DDT6ev1_RYI

top man. proof that knowledge and talent won't get their just reward. we're lumbered with the likes of gary line-acre and jamie the £#%&!wit while this chap is labouring away in relative obscurity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaAvkXaZxuE

mentioned Heysel



tip of the hat at them for using New Orders brilliant "Your Silent Face" near the end

enjoyed that cheers

Originally Posted by ScarFace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaAvkXaZxuE

really good that. cheers for posting.

james richardson is fantastic.

Watched it last night. Some quality stories from the team. It appears they were a bunch of chancers and pretty much made it up as they went along for the first two years. The fact they only paid £650k fornthe rights in the first season shows how shrewd the idea was. Nicola Berti seems like an interesting character. Had to laugh at Ince who claims that fergie begged him to stay and blew him off for Inter.

Enjoyed that. Some good memories. Now bring back the European Football Show BT, you cheap bastards.

Great show wasn't it.

Why not just reboot it?

Didn't know about Ince...that Fergie tried to stop it last minute.
Surprised he's still with his mrs, after her making him swap Ronaldo for Jason McAteer

Originally Posted by Marlon Van Baron

Watched it last night. Some quality stories from the team. It appears they were a bunch of chancers and pretty much made it up as they went along for the first two years. The fact they only paid £650k fornthe rights in the first season shows how shrewd the idea was. Nicola Berti seems like an interesting character. Had to laugh at Ince who claims that fergie begged him to stay and blew him off for Inter.

yeah, apparently, that 650k would pay for 4 mins of premier league coverage this season!

How much of that documentary is about Gascoigne? Five minutes in and about 20 tedious references to the fat alcoholic bastard ffs.

Originally Posted by dunk

The whole idea behind Gazetta was that it was Gazza’s show. He got bored after a few weeks and Jimbo went from being producer/facilitator for Gazza to presenter.

Yes, though Gazza still made the occasional "guest" appearance until he left Italy.

Brilliant interview with Ince, so many good memories. Parents wouldn't fork out for Sky so watching Serie A and MOTD was like getting a weekly fix.

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

Brilliant interview with Ince

great stuff.

Originally Posted by chooch

Enjoyed that. Some good memories. Now bring back the European Football Show BT, you cheap bastards.

This is why Jimbo's little hint at a Gazzetta comeback is futile. It was of its time in an era where many couldn't afford Sky and it provided some much needed football on the TV. Nowadays we're overloaded with it; Soccer AM generation - nobody is going to resurrect Gazzetta.

The European Football Show came in a slot after all the English football for the weekend was finished, and it still couldn't survive

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

great stuff.

Still haven't forgiven him for 1999, apologies if that appears a tad Top Red-ish.

Just watched it. Playing your silent face on the outro hit me right in the £#%&!ing feels. What a show, what a time. Nowt better than going to school on the Monday and trying to imitate Weah, Batigol or Baggio in the playground.

Makes football these days look shallow tbh. 90s was the perfect marriage of the culture, stardom and icons of football, culminating with '99. Ripip