For many of us of Italian descent living overseas, it was a lightbulb moment. When the satellite dish was strapped to the side or top of your house and the cables brought Rai channels into the family home it was transformational. It introduced the Azzurri into the living room with - at long last - …
Continue reading Bye-Bye Bruno: Farewell to Pizzul, The Voice of The Azzurri
Some things are worth waiting for. The love of your life, a holiday you have always dreamed of and a properly prepared risotto all spring to mind. We can now add to that list the return of David de Gea. There was a lot of scepticism surrounding the wisdom of his acquisition when Fiorentina trumpeted …
Continue reading David de Gea: Fiorentina’s Goalkeeper Proving His Worth
https://twitter.com/Azzurri_En/status/1838496088053158118 I only have to see this goal to go flying back in time. I am 12 years old in a little bar in Tuscany watching the game with my Dad and my uncle and a lot of other Italians and hoping that we can please just make it 2-0 soon. I never for a …
Continue reading Marco Tardelli at 70: Where Were You When He Scored THAT Goal?
We have come a long way from the days of Football Italia on Channel 4. Since those heady times, Serie A has bounced around broadcasters like a rubber ball dropped from the top tier of the San Siro. It has ended up at the feet of OneFootball who are offering on-demand single game streams or …
Continue reading Serie A on OneFootball in the UK: What Does It Mean For Viewers?
A rare live experience of Fiorentina action this summer There is nothing like a live game of football. The roar of the crowd, the shared delight and disappointment at events upon the pitch and the banter between your own and opposition supporters all make for a special experience. It is the life blood of the …
Photo by Karolina Kaboompics on Pexels.com The memory is an unfaithful servant. It serves up crisp and clear images of events from decades ago while keeping what happened a few moments ago irritatingly out of reach. Why can I remember the day my Dad got a British Satellite Broadcasting flat dish - a squarial - …
Continue reading The Things We Do For Love: Serie A Watching in the UK
We were not going to do one, it was going to be a quiet summer but Italy were simply so bad that Marco and I could not resist. If you want to share our agony - or laugh at it - please give us a listen and share and like. Now featuring an all-new intro. …
It has been an emotional campaign for myself and my co-host and cousin Marco Rinaldi. One of us ended the campaign with a gigantic grin on his face, the other an all-too-familiar frown. Join us for one last blast of the season as we reflect on all things Serie A and Serie B and also …
Photo by Kaboompics .com on Pexels.com The coffee cups sit empty, a few crumpled chocolate wrappers around them. Two wine glasses and a couple of beer bottles still linger in the living room along with a television remote tossed to the ground in disgust as soon as the final whistle blew. This scene, I am …
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