Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

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James Richardson, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti relive Serie A's glory days with tales of Italian football's greatest and most infamous icons

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Pippo Mio – an intro to Inzaghi

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

10/17/19 • 40 min

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Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti present a long-awaited retrospective on the career of Pippo Inzaghi. He won the Champions League and the World Cup. Only 3 men have scored more goals in Europe than him. But was he actually any good? His former team-mate at Atalanta, Richard Hughes, gives us the answer. We look at the connection Inzaghi had with fans and pundits alike, if not always his strike partners. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Inzaghi – the quintessential Italian footballer? (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Inzaghi’s route to Juve (07m 00s) • PART 2b: Inzaghi’s former teammate Richard Hughes tells us if he was any good (11m 45s) • PART 3a: Inzaghi’s issues with Del Piero (15m 30s) • PART 3b: Inzaghi moves to Milan (19m 30s) • PART 4a: Inzaghi wins the Champions League for Milan (22m 30s) • PART 4b: Pippo’s most memorable goals (27m 00s) • PART 5a: Inzaghi’s last game for Milan (32m 00s) • PART 5b: Pippo’s coaching career (35m 30s) GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/) • find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)

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10/17/19 • 40 min

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Il Processo – Italy’s iconic football show

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

10/14/19 • 42 min

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Imagine The Debate with guests of the calibre of Jose Mourinho, John W Henry and David Cameron. You’ve just imagined Il Processo. Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti take on The Trial, the Italian football debate show fronted by Aldo Biscardi for 36 years. Hysterical, all-access, must see TV, an early proponent of VAR and punditry conducted by crystals. Social media before social media existed. Step inside the most popular football show in Italy. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: What was Il Processo? (01m 30s) • PART 1b: Who was Aldo Biscardi? (10m 00s) • PART 2a: Il Processo’s technological analysis (10m 00s) • PART 2b: Berlusconi, Agnelli et al - Italian owners making news on the show (15m 30s) • PART 3a: Maurizio Mosca’s role on the show – pendulums and Platini (25m 40s) • PART 3b: Moggi uses Il Processo as part of Calciopoli (27m 30s) • PART 3c: The legacy and spin-offs of Il Processo (34m 00s) GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/) • find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)

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10/14/19 • 42 min

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O Fenomeno

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

03/12/21 • 69 min

Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti bring you the Serie A story of the original Ronaldo – a global icon.

The Brazilian superstar Ronaldo joined Inter Milan from Barcelona in 1997. His return to Spain 5 years later arguably marked the end of Serie A’s economic dominance. Golazzo relives the greatest player in the world playing in the greatest league in the world in his prime, before injuries sadly struck.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Not that Ronaldo (01m 30s)

• PART 2a: How did Inter get Ronaldo? (08m 00s)

• PART 2b: 97/98 – Inter miss out on the title but win the UEFA Cup (14m 00s)

• PART 3a: Ronaldo’s World Cup final drama (25m 00s)

• PART 3b: Inter slip towards mid-table (31m 30s)

• PART 3c: Ronaldo’s injury struggles begin (39m 00s)

• PART 4a: Ronaldo gives Inter an ultimatum (45m 00s)

• PART 4b: Ronaldo's legacy (59m 00s)

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03/12/21 • 69 min

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Inter’s tripletta

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

10/13/19 • 45 min

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Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti examine the last Italian club to win the Champions League – and the only one to do the treble – Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan. The Nerazzurri lost Zlatan but bought full-back Samuel Eto’o and an unwanted Wesley Sneijder, stumbling on the perfect formula for success. With the help of a volcano. This is the story of perhaps Mourinho’s finest hour, a season that ended with him in Real Madrid’s limo. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Inter’s summer scramble and slow start to the season (03m 00s) • PART 2: Inter’s strength in depth (06m 00s) • PART 3a: Inter’s Champions League campaign begins (14m 20s) • PART 3b: Mourinho’s relationship with the Italian press (19m 30s) • PART 4a: Inter beat Barcelona in an epic semi-final (23m 00s) • PART 4b: Beating Bayern and Mourinho’s subsequent switch to Real (32m 00s) • PART 5: The aftermath for Inter post 2010 (36m 40s) GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/) • find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)

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10/13/19 • 45 min

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Leftie Lucarelli, Livorno legend

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

10/14/19 • 42 min

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Lucarelli was the top scorer in Serie A but didn’t believe in separating politics from football. From Che Guevara t-shirts to starting his own newspaper, this tale includes Berlusconi bandanas and Luther Blissett’s role in Italian anarchism. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: The city of Livorno aka Leghorn (02m 30s) • PART 2a: Lucarelli’s beginnings pre-Livorno, via Spain (06m 00s) • PART 2b: Lucarelli returns to Livorno and partners with Protti (10m 00s) • PART 3: Livorno win promotion to Serie A – and a trip to the San Siro (15m 30s) • PART 4a: Lucarelli’s chequered history with the national team (23m 00s) • PART 4b: Lucarelli leaves Livorno for the Ukraine – was he a communist? (27m 30s) • PART 4c: Lucarelli sets up a newspaper (33m 45s) • PART 5: His brother Alessandro Lucarelli, an icon at Parma (36m 30s) GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/) • find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow)

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10/14/19 • 42 min

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The Spalletti story

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

12/02/20 • 62 min

The start saw a string of sackings but Luciano Spalletti’s managerial career caught fire in his first spell at Roma, one of the most tactically significant coaching stints of the last 20 years. Defined by the discovery of the 4-6-0 formation that rejuvenated Francesco Totti.

This Golazzo looks back at that team, as well as some of the less successful periods in Spalletti’s time in football. From ostracizing Totti to ostracizing Icardi.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Famous for being fired – Spalletti’s chaotic beginnings (04m 00s)

• PART 1b: The big breakthrough at Udinese (14m 00s)

• PART 2: Spallett’s Roma – “the best football I’ve ever seen” (17m 00s)

• PART 3a: Spalletti at Zenit (34m 00s)

• PART 3b: Returning to Roma to retire Totti (39m 00s)

• PART 4: Spalletti at Inter – the Icardi affair (45m 00s)

• PART 5: Would you appoint Spalletti? (52m 30s)

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12/02/20 • 62 min

Sinisa business

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

12/08/20 • 50 min

European Cup winner Sinisa Mihajlovic was the master of free-kicks, considered a wonder of physics in Italy. He also was an accused racist and has battled leukaemia while still managing Bologna. His is a complex story, and his Golazzo includes a special tribute from Sven-Goran Eriksson.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Mihajlovic’s beginnings at Vojvodina (03m 30s)

• PART 1b: Sinisa wins the European Cup with Red Star (09m 00s)

• PART 2: Sinisa’s set-piece gift (16m 00s)

• PART 3: The less savoury side of Sinisa (23m 30s)

• PART 4a: Sven and Sinisa (28m 00s)

• PART 4b: Mihajlovic the manager (35m 00s)

• PART 4c: Mihajlovic’s battle against leukaemia (39m 30s)

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12/08/20 • 50 min

Ravanelli!

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

02/26/21 • 62 min

Jimbo welcomes back James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti to discuss one of the most recognisable names and haircuts in Italian football history – Fabrizio Ravanelli.

The man who said he was born to be a bricklayer was on the scoresheet the last time Juventus won the Champions League. A silver fox with one of the most imitated goal celebrations of all time, we examine whether his legend was rather more modest than we remember. And how exactly did he end up at Middlesbrough? And Dundee?

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: The man made by Football Italia? (02m 00s)

• PART 1b: The Ravanelli story starts in Perugia (06m 00s)

• PART 1c: The silver fox signs for Juve (13m 30s)

• PART 1d: Champions League glory in 96 (26m 30s)

• PART 2a: Ravanelli at Middlesbrough (31m 00s)

• PART 2b: Ravanelli returns to Italy, via Marseille (42m 30s)

• PART 2c: Derby, Dundee and management (45m 30s)

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02/26/21 • 62 min

Ultras in Italy – part 1

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

04/16/20 • 43 min

In the first of a two-part special, we look at the roots of ultra culture, the politics and the power wielded by Italian clubs’ most passionate and outspoken fan groups. Suspending games, stopping signings and supposed links to organised crime. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Why the fascination with ultras? (01m 00s) • PART 2: The roots of ultra culture (10m 00s) • PART 3: The links to organised crime (15m 00s) • PART 4: Why do clubs give power to the ultras? (23m 00s) • PART 5: Ultras stopping play (32m 30s)

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04/16/20 • 43 min

Tre tulipani – part 1

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

12/15/20 • 38 min

Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Marco Van Basten were so good, they made up the entire podium for the 1988 Ballon D’Or.

The Dutch trio, known as the three tulips, were pivotal to the Netherlands’ Euro 88 triumph and this Golazzo concentrates on the years that led to them becoming a collective at San Siro.

Part one of this two-part special also includes Ruud’s reggae band and a heated debate over the best goal ever.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Italian clubs buying countrymen in bulk (06m 00s)

• PART 1b: Ruud Gullit – Europe’s Maradona (10m 00s)

• PART 1c: Gullit’s relationship with Arrigo Sacchi (18m 00s)

• PART 2: Holland win Euro 88 with that Van Basten goal (23m 00s)

• PART 3: Rijkaard moves to Milan (32m 30s)

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