As Bravo prepares to pull the plug on Football Italia, let's celebrate 14 years of James Richardson's unique coverage of Serie A.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/12/20/arrivederci_james_and_thanks_f.html
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James Richardson is hands down the best sport presenter working on british tv.
Watching him as a kid was a weird love/hate thing.
You loved him because, unlike most other presenters, he was witty and intelligent, coming across as a really nice, self-deprecating guy. Moverover, he understood popular culture and weaved it into his reports [see the Youtube link lower in the article to him and Elvis Costello watching a game].
You hated him because he had the world's best job...watching Italian soccer, one wk reporting from a piazza in Rome, the next wk interviewing Maldini.
If Sky or the BBc had any sense they'd hire him straightaway. Instead we get Alan Shearer and Jamie Redknapp.
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