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  1. James Oliver Richardson (born 29 May 1966), also known as AC Jimbo, 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.

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  3. Dec 28, 2023 · James Richardson is a sports television presenter and journalist born in Bristol on May 29, 1966. Richardson has been on our screens since 1992, starting with a ten-year run as the...

  4. James Richardson. Writing, Trying, Hearing. 6 Copy quote. Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses.

  5. Aug 26, 2022 · James, aka Jimbo, sat down with The Athletic’s Jay Harris to discuss his glorious decade presenting Football Italia, meeting Robert Baggio and Serie A’s unique appeal.

    • Like An Italia ’90 Spin-Off Series
    • ‘They Just Needed Someone Who Spoke Italian’
    • On Gazza

    “They’d taken great note of him during the 1990 World Cup,” Richardson recalls. “I think there was huge anticipation in Britain how he would get on against what was then the greatest collection of players in the world. “Whether he’d be able to come back from injury, whether the greatest player we’d produced for a while was going to be a match for s...

    Richardson, inadvertently, took the reins, and become a well-known face and voice, his mannerisms and wordplay bringing Italian football to life with wit and panache. Yet before this he had no interest in being a presenter, even as Italian football moved from Sky to Channel 4 in 1992. “Largely, I got the job because I spoke Italian,” explains Richa...

    “Working with Paul Gascoigne was really extraordinary because he’s, at heart, such an entertainer and a very generous person,” he says. “It was weird to be visiting him, entering into that little bubble, talking to him and then emerging from it again to face all the Roman journalists wanting to know what Gazza said. “The fact we were an English TV ...

  6. Aug 14, 2020 · Richardsons newspaper round-ups, the sketches with Gazza, the interviews, the ridiculous things he somehow persuaded world-class players to do on camera, it was brilliant.

  7. Now the presenter of the Guardians Football Weekly podcast and BT Sport’s European Football Show, he also heads up ‘The Goals Show’ for BT’s Champions League coverage.

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