Perugia pandemonium - a Golazzo Gaucci special
Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti examine the life and times of former Perugia owner Luciano Gaucci. Gaucci shot to worldwide prominence after being reported to have sacked Perugia’s South Korean World Cup hero Ahn Jung-Hwan for knocking Italy out of the World Cup in 2002. He dined at the White House, hired a Gadaffi, gave a referee a racehorse and generally made Massimo Cellino l...
42m Sep 26, 2018
42m
Chievo – when the good guys go bad
Jimbo and James Horncastle take another trip down memory lane on this week’s Golazzo. With Chievo deducted 3 points for falsifying acccounts, we look back at the time when they were everyone’s second favourite team in Italy. A newly promoted Chievo team, managed by a former photocopier salesman, took Serie A by storm in 2001/02, setting the early pace in the title race before narrowly missing...
42m Sep 19, 2018
42m
2006 Campioni del Mondo
Jimbo and James Horncastle bring you the story of the 2006 World Cup. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: The Azzurri's route to the final (14m 45s) • PART 1b: The story of the final (21m 25s) • PART 2a: Where are the squad of '06 now? (23m 20s) • PART 2b: Richard Hughes tells us why there's nobody as good as the class of '06 coming through the Vivaio (26m 25s) • PART 3: Where do Mancini's Italy go...
32m Sep 12, 2018
32m
Quagliarella Boom Boom
Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti drool over an early goal of the season contender from Fabio Quagliarella and take us inside the story of how he became a victim of stalking. The guys also discuss what lies ahead for the Serie A sides in the Champions League, dissect Mancini's first competitive Azzurri squad and welcome the return of Berlusconi. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Fabio Qua...
32m Sep 05, 2018
32m
Satisfaction for SPAL but not Spalletti
Jimbo and James Horncastle are back to assess the weekend’s action in Serie A. With Fiorentina thrashing Chievo 6-1, it offers us a chance to reminisce about great La Viola teams – and kits – gone by. Former Atalanta man Richard Hughes is in the studio to discuss a great start to the season by Gasperini’s men and why they should be your new favourite team. Ronaldo’s Juventus win again but is ...
37m Aug 29, 2018
37m
Napoli not sweating life after Sarri
After an exciting opening weekend of Serie A action, Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti are back to review and preview. Juve won away but what formation do they play to accommodate Cristiano Ronaldo? Ancelotti’s new team are victorious at the Stadio Olimpico – now he faces his old team as Napoli host Milan on Saturday. Plus find out why Lazio ultras are positioning the Curva Nord a...
40m Aug 22, 2018
40m
A messy Italian summer
Jimbo and James Horncastle preview what promises to be one of the best Serie A seasons in modern history and - with the transfer window preparing to slam shut for another summer – discuss some of the league’s biggest transfers ever, including why Milan are not going loco for Bakayoko just yet. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: This year’s Villar Perosa and Juve’s Dyb-aldo (00m 40s) • PART 1b: Interv...
41m Aug 15, 2018
41m
The sale of the century - Ronaldo to Juventus
Jimbo and James Horncastle analyse Cristiano Ronaldo's move from Real to Juve. Is he the missing piece for the Old Lady's Champions League aspirations? Who in the current squad will have to make room for CR7? Can the current Ballon d'Or holder keep up his ridiculous goalscoring feats in Serie A? And what does it mean for the rest of the league?
14m Jul 12, 2018
14m
La fine
Jimbo and James Horncastle look back on a spectacular season in Serie A and - with Carlo Ancelotti in at Napoli and Parma back in the top flight - gaze ahead to good times ahead in Italy.  Just don't mention the World Cup... RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Inter pip Lazio for the final Champions League spot (01m 40s) • PART 1b: Milan make the Europa League…or do they? (09m 30s) • PART 2a: Ancelot...
39m May 23, 2018
39m
Nathaniel Chalobah's year in Naples
James Horncastle speaks to Watford's Nathaniel Chalobah about his 2015 loan spell at Napoli from Chelsea.  What was it like working with Maurizio Sarri?  How did the Partenopei fans react to this young and - at the time- relatively unknown English midfielder?  And how much of the world's finest pizza did he eat?
28m May 16, 2018
28m
Dario Hübner: The late blooming goal machine
Jimbo is joined by Richard Hughes, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti to discuss Dario Hübner, the unglamorous striker with perhaps the most remarkable story of them all. Nicknamed 'The Bison', hard drinking and smoking Dario didn't even play in Serie A until his 30's and went on to win the Capocannonieri aged 35. There's also a preview of tonight's cup final and the weekend's Serie A fixt...
39m May 09, 2018
39m
The rises and falls of Parma
Jimbo, Gabriele Marcotti and James Horncastle tell the story of Parma, one of the most exciting teams of the 90s, with players like GInafranco Zola, Tino Asprilla, Hernan Crespo, Tomas Brolin and (Dino) Baggio helping them to three European trophies in a decade (four if you count the Super Cup). But that all came crashing down with the club from Emilia-Romagna twice declaring bankruptcy, suffer...
39m May 02, 2018
39m
Derby d'Italia: Juventus vs Inter
James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti join James Richardson on the latest Golazzo to discuss Liverpool's win over Roma and also the Derby d’italia: Juventus vs Inter, featuring the classic 1998 encounter at the Stadio delle Alpi. RUNNING ORDER: GET IN TOUCH: • find us on Facebook, where you’ll find video, photos and loads of other stuff. (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) •...
41m Apr 25, 2018
41m
Il Grande Torino and the tragedy of Superga
James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti join Jimbo to celebrate the all conquering Torino team of the 1940s, which won 5 straight scudetti before being tragically killed in the Superga air disaster. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Escaping the war (2m 50s) • PART 2: The real Grande Torino (11m 00s) • PART 3: A city mourns (26m 50s) GET IN TOUCH: • find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/the...
41m Apr 18, 2018
41m
'Roma Nel Mito'
Jimbo and James Horncastle are used to celebrating both the legends and legendary performances of the Italian game, and this week Roma wrote themselves into the history books.  We look back over the Giallorossi's incredible 3-0 victory over Barcelona and the euphoric celebrations which followed, as the team from the capital reached a European semi-final for the first time since 1984. RUNNING O...
34m Apr 11, 2018
34m
Gabriel Batistuta: The greatest centre forward of the 1990s
James Richardson and James Horncastle salute the genius of 'Batigol' whose stunning goals and flowing locks lit up Argentina and Italy. A hero at Fiorentina after 168 goals and staying on after relegation, Batistuta finally won a Scudetto after moving to Roma in his 30s. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Batigol's purple reign (02m 40s) • PART 2: Roma Scudetto (18m 00s) • PART 3: Serie A preview (26...
32m Apr 04, 2018
32m
Zdeněk Zeman: Revolutionary manager on and off the pitch
James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti join Jimbo to look back on the career of cult manager Zdeněk Zeman, whose romantic version of playing the beautiful game was way ahead of its time. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Zeman career and 4-3-3 (01m 00s) • PART 2: Comments on doping while Roma manager (28m 00s) • PART 3: England 1-1 Italy (38m 25s) GET IN TOUCH: • find us on Facebook (https://www.f...
46m Mar 28, 2018
46m
Guns, riots and the craziest team ever - Lazio in the early 70s
Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti tell the extraordinary story of the Lazio side of the 70s, which - as well as winning the club's first championship - was notorious for its love of guns, violence and far-right politics RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1:  The story of Giorgio Chinaglia and Lazio's first scudetto (01m 20s) • PART 2:  UEFA Cup defeat to Ipswich and Euro ban (19m 20s) • PART...
46m Mar 21, 2018
46m
Sampdoria's '91 Scudetto and a classic Inter comeback
Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti turn the clock back to May 1991 to look at Inter 0-2 Sampdoria, where the Blucerchiati team featuring Vialli, Mancini and Lombardo were the subject of one of football’s great modern fairytales. 14 years later, with Mancini now managing Inter, Obafemi Martins inspired Inter to come from two goals down in the 90th minute to win. RUNNING ORDER: • PAR...
39m Mar 14, 2018
39m
Milan-Arsenal ’95 and remembering Davide Astori
We kick off Golazzo by paying tribute to Fiorentina captain and Italy international Davide Astori, who died suddenly last weekend.  For the rest of the show Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti turn the clock back to February 1995 and the second leg of the European Super Cup, with Arsenal taking on Milan at San Siro. It’s a time of turmoil with Serie A having been suspended due to the ...
31m Mar 07, 2018
31m
The good, the bad and the Beppe
Giuseppe Signori is the star of the show this week as Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti look back at the career of one of the finest Italian strikers of all time.  But Beppe Gol’s route to the top was less than straight forward. Discarded by Inter for being too small, he spent seven years mooching around Serie B and C before finding his feet upfront for Foggia and then Lazio.  Here,...
38m Feb 28, 2018
38m
The divine Roberto Baggio
In the spotlight for this week’s Golazzo is perhaps the finest Italian player of all time, Roberto Baggio. It’s a story of huge triumphs and great goals, but too many what-could-have-beens as well as distrusting managers and one legendary penalty miss. Plus, Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti get up and close and personal with present day Serie A, discussing yet more money problems a...
36m Feb 21, 2018
36m
Maradona's Napoli
It's the story of the love affair between one man and one city: Diego Maradona's seven sensational seasons in Naples.  James Horncastle is joined by the Oscar- and Bafta-winning director Asif Kapadia - currently editing his next documentary, El Diego - to talk adulation and addiction,  indulgence and inspiration, and success and Scudetti.
36m Feb 14, 2018
36m
Juventus v Fiorentina - a rivalry for the ages
It’s the most one-sided hate match in football and on the latest Golazzo, Jimbo and James Horncastle take a look back at two crucial early 90s meetings between the Old Lady and La Viola. Plus, all the latest news from the tightest title race in Europe. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1a: Serie A latest - Juve hit seven; Fiorentina score twice from corners; Lazio beaten; Inter remain winless (00m 40s) ...
32m Feb 07, 2018
32m
40 years of Buffon
On the latest edition of Golazzo, Jimbo and James Horncastle are joined by Atalanta youth product (and Scotland international) Richard Hughes to look back on the career on the one and only Gigi Buffon • PART 1a: Richard Hughes’ Atalanta memories (00m 50s) • PART 1b: Buffon is back! (06m 20s) • PART 1c: Paper review; Moise Kean v Pietro Pellegri  v Patrick Crutone; Atalanta love (09m 30s) • ...
34m Jan 31, 2018
34m
Paolo Maldini - a (Milan) man apart
James Richardson, James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti look back on the career of the peerless Paolo Maldini. Plus, how Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and co are powering Lazio to the Champions League, and the rest of the news from Serie A • PART 1a: paper review and transfer news (01m 00s) • PART 1b: Serie A review, with extra love for Lazio (03m 00s) • PART 2: Paolo Maldini retrospective (10m 3...
28m Jan 24, 2018
28m
A wild night in Rome
On the first outing of our brand new podcast, AC Jimbo is joined by James Horncastle and Gabriele Marcotti to fill you in on why the Serie A title race is hotter than ever, and turn back the clock to May 1999 to relive a remarkable 5-4 win for Inter at Roma - a game featuring a who's who of 90s football icons (and Mikaël Silvestre) RUNNING ORDER • PART 1a: paper review (01m 00s) • PART 1b: S...
26m Jan 17, 2018
26m
Coming soon - Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show
Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show is the new football podcast from Muddy Knees Media, the team behind the chart-topping Totally Football Show. It's hosted by James Richardson, the man who fronted Channel 4’s coverage of Italian football in the 1990s and, more than anyone, helped to popularise all things calcio in the British consciousness.Richardson will be joined in the studio for the...
1m Dec 11, 2017
1m