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James Horncastle
James Horncastle is an English sportswriter and a broadcaster. Specialising in European and Italian football, Horncastle frequently covers football for BT Sport. Horncastle speaks fluent Italian having formerly lived in Rome. Horncastle started writing Serie B match reports for the Football Italia website and is now a regular weekly pundit for BT Sport on their Champions League Goals Show and appeared weekly on their European Football Show for four years. As well as appearing weekly on British television Horncastle writes in English and Italian. He has written for The Guardian, the Daily Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, The Blizzard, Eurosport and the Liverpool Echo He was reported by Forbes to be the first to break the $828m deal for A.C. Milan by Chinese investors from Silvio Berlusconi. He is used weekly as a European expert for BBC Radio 5 Live’s Euro leagues show with Mina Rzouki, Julien Laurens, and Raphael Honigstein. He also produces column ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportswriter
Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions. Sports journalism started in the early 1800s when it was targeted to the social elite and transitioned into an integral part of the news business with newspapers having dedicated sports sections. The increased popularity of sports amongst the middle and lower class led to the more coverage of sports content in publications. The appetite for sports resulted in sports-only media such as ''Sports Illustrated'' and ESPN. There are many different forms of sports journalism, ranging from play-by-play and game recaps to analysis and investigative journalism on important developments in the sport. Technology and the internet age has massively changed the sports journalism space as it is struggling with the same problems that the broader category of print journalism is struggling with, mainly not being able to cover costs due to falling subscriptions. New forms of internet blogg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Honigstein
Raphael Honigstein (born 1973) is a German journalist and author. Early life Honigstein was born in Bavaria to a Jewish family. In 1993, Honigstein moved from Munich to London. He studied law before becoming a journalist. Journalism career In the 1990s, Honigstein wrote about pop culture for the German youth magazine ''jetzt''. Honigstein is the English football correspondent for the German newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', and has been the German football correspondent for the British newspaper ''The Guardian'' and the UK radio broadcaster, talkSPORT. In addition, he also contributes to Germany's popular football magazine, ''11Freunde'' and the British football quarterly, '' The Blizzard''. Honigstein now writes for the UK arm of The Athletic. Broadcasting Honigstein regularly appears on the podcast ''The Totally Football Show'' and, before its cancellation, on BT Sport television programme ''Sunday Night Football'', both hosted by James Richardson, where he gives updates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Leeds United
Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire in England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of England's football league system, and plays its home matches at Elland Road Stadium. The club has been a member of the Premier League for fifteen years of the competition's history, spending over fifty seasons in the top flight. The club has competed in the top two tiers of English football, with the exception of three seasons in the third tier, since its admission to the Football League in 1920. Leeds have won three English league titles, one FA Cup, one League Cup, two FA Charity/Community Shields and two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups. The club had their most successful period under the management of Don Revie in the 1960s and 1970s, when they won the League title twice, the FA Cup once, the League Cup once and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup twice. They were also finalists in the European Cup Winners Cup in 1973 and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Marcotti
Gabriele Marcotti (born 28 July 1973) is an Italian sports journalist, sports author, and radio-television presenter. Born in Italy and now based in London, he was raised in the United States (Chicago and New York), Poland, Germany and Japan. He is fluent in Italian, English, German, Spanish and knows conversational Japanese. Early life Marcotti briefly attended the European School, Varese in Varese, Italy. He subsequently obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York. Print journalism career Due to his fluency in both English and Italian, Marcotti writes for and contributes to various publications in both languages. In the United States, he is known for his work in ''Sports Illustrated'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''ESPN FC''. He also writes for ''Champions Magazine'', ''The Times'' in England, and the ''Sunday Herald'' in Scotland, having previously written for the ''Daily Mail'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Richardson (presenter)
James Oliver Richardson (born 29 May 1966 in Bristol) is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a former presenter of Channel 4's ''Football Italia'' programme and former host of ''The Guardian'' '' Football Weekly'' podcast. He currently hosts BT Sport's ''The UEFA Champions League Goals Show'', ''World's Strongest Man'' for Channel 5, and ''The Totally Football Show'' podcast. The Totally Football Sho accessed 3 December 2017 He is also employed by the Premier League, featuring in content related to Fantasy Premier League and for overseas-rights holders. sportsvibeTV, James Richardson Talks Italian Football, 20 Sep 2013 accessed 3 December 2017 He is an A.S. Roma fan and a gifted linguist, speaking his native English, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Jane Morgan Management, James Richardson accessed 3 December 2017 ''Football Italia'' Richardson was the television anchor, anchor of ''Football Italia'' on Channel 4 from 1992 until 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Totally Football Show
''The Totally Football Show'' presented by James Richardson is a thrice weekly podcast about association football produced by Muddy Knees Media. From June 15, 2020 it was incorporated into and also available via The Athletic. It regularly features on lists of the best association football podcasts. History The podcast was an off-shoot of ''The Guardian'' newspaper's '' Football Weekly'' podcast from which presenter Richardson, Producer Ben, and regular contributor Iain Macintosh left in order to create their own product ahead of the 2017–18 season. The new shows received five million downloads in their first two months. Throughout the 2017–18 season 26 million downloads were reported. For the 2018–19 season the 'Totally Football Show' will be sponsoring the football shirts of Melchester Rovers in the re-boot of the Roy of the Rovers graphic novels. In June 2020, Muddy Knees Media and The Totally Football Show became part of The Athletic. Content As well as the flag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Weekly
Football Weekly is a podcast about football produced by ''The Guardian'' newspaper in the United Kingdom. It was first broadcast in 2006. It reviews the latest football results and news, and previews forthcoming matches. While focused on the Premier League and English football more broadly, the show pays significant attention to football across Europe, paying particular attention to La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga. Originally provided weekly—as its name suggests—Football Weekly, as of 2021, broadcasts three times a week during the European football season. The original episode release day was Monday, after the weekend's fixtures, and since 2007 a second weekly podcast, ''Football Weekly Extra'', has aired on Thursdays to review midweek action and preview the next weekend's matches. A third weekly episode published on Tuesdays or Wednesdays has been produced since June 2020, typically either focusing on news from non-British European leagues, or providing space for exten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Football Ramble
''The Football Ramble'' is a podcast, book and website about association football, produced in London by The Football Ramble Ltd. Originally provided fortnightly, this was increased to a weekly show at the beginning of the 09/10 football season, mainly due to repeated listener requests. In October 2015, the podcast became biweekly with a preview show of the weekend's football going out on a Friday followed by a show on Monday reflecting on the weekend's action and previewing any midweek games that may be occurring. Early episodes were recorded in the kitchen of presenter Luke Moore's rented house in Harlesden (known as the Cave of Funk) with a couple of old microphones and a MiniDisc player. It is presented by Marcus Speller, Luke Moore, Pete Donaldson and Jim Campbell. On the podcast, emphasis is placed in and around European (especially the English Premier League), and World Football and to a lesser extent the Italian, German, Spanish and Scottish leagues providing an irreve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FourFourTwo
''FourFourTwo'' is a football magazine published by Future. Issued monthly, it published its 300th edition in May 2019. It takes its name from the football formation of the same name, 4-4-2. In 2008, it was announced that ''FourFourTwo'' had entered into a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with Swindon Town, which commenced in the 2008–09 season. Although based in the United Kingdom, the magazine is also available in 16 other languages. Contributors Present The following people are amongst the regular contributors to ''FourFourTwo'' (UK edition): *Uli Hesse *James Horncastle *Martin Mazur *Michael Cox Past columnists * James Richardson, who presents the European Football Show on BT Sport and previously ''Football Italia'' on Channel 4, who used to give his views on Italian football before being replaced. *Henry Winter — Leading football journalist. *Brian Clough — Ex-player and manager, until his death in 2004. *Bobby Robson — Ex-player and manager who briefly replac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off The Ball (radio Series)
'' Off the Ball '' is a radio show broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00pm – 2:00pm on BBC Radio Scotland. It takes a satirical and sideways view at football in Scotland, self-styling itself as ''"The most petty and ill-informed sports programme on radio!"''. Background The show began in August 1994, and is currently (since 1995) presented by broadcaster and writer Stuart Cosgrove, a fan of St Johnstone, and newspaper columnist Tam Cowan, a Motherwell supporter, plus at least two weekly guests; usually one from the world of Scottish football and one from Scottish culture. When the show first began, it was hosted by Cowan and comedians Greg Hemphill and Sanjeev Kohli, who later acknowledged that they did not have the depth of football knowledge required to give credibility to the format in addition to its humorous aspects, which Cosgrove was successful in providing. The show was known as ''On the Ball'' when it aired from 1:30pm until 2pm prior to the 3pm matches being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his son Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut. The network also operates offices and auxiliary studios in Miami, New York City, Las Vegas, Seattle, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. James Pitaro currently serves as chairman of ESPN, a position he has held since March 5, 2018, following the resignation of John Skipper on December 18, 2017. While ESPN is one of the most successful sports networks, there has been criticism of ESPN. This includes accusations of biased coverage, conflict of interest, and controversies with individual broadcasters and analysts. , ESPN reaches approximately 76 million te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
