Comments on: Italy marches on in Toulon and Inter-Roma once again tomorrow

By: Johonna

Johonna — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:00:45 +0000

It is sad when the FSC people dont even know the names of the players. They try to cover up by complaining that the players look the same – I guess they dont know the player’s numbers either.

Still, as it is my only option aside from streaming – it is better than nothing!

By: LorenzoRosanero

LorenzoRosanero — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:56:35 +0000

Exactly, guys. Serie A Weekly is actually made in Italy and then converted by the same guys who run Channel 4’s Football Italia for British television.

I wish they’d just let us listen to the game and the crowd noises and actually gameplay sounds that come with it, rather than unintelligible idiots rambling on about things they don’t have a clue about.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:05:31 +0000

Serie A Weekly is a good show because it’s not produced by FSC. Any show produced by FSC is terrible.

By: lgarzone

lgarzone — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:26:59 +0000

usually the announcers for the serie a games are alright, but the weekly news shows are a completely different story. First of all, shows like fox football fone in, saturdday matchy day and fox soccer report talk about the EPL for the first 45 minutes, then talk about serie a withoutknowiing shit for 7 minutes, then finish off the show by talking about the EPL again for the remaining time. Im not exaggerating, they really do need to at least have non-biased commentators instead of guys who just seem to love to make fun of or down-talk Italians whenever they get the chance.

Serie A Weekly is a very good show though.

By: KMS

KMS — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:28:00 +0000

now that u mention it the announcers kinda remind me of that Scottish guy announcing the euro qualifier between italy and scotland. After scotland were apparently robbed of their draw the guy didn’t make one neutral comment

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:37:08 +0000

Forza Roma!!!

By: tito

tito — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:07:00 +0000

Yes, the “Grossi” crack was really insufferable… but I guess it’s something you get used to watching the wholly anglophile / borderline racist FSC.

If that ref made a correct call today I must have missed it – that was an atrociously called game.

I’m not looking forward to playing the states in a meaningless game as they will decide to save some face the only way they seem to know how on the intl stage: foul frightfully. Hopefully it’s a good clean game and no-one gets hurt.

Italy’s b-team did ok against a very skilled Turkish side. This should be our tournament… which would be a nice way to set the stage for the summer’s festivities!

By: SGM

SGM — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:45:13 +0000

I have to say that FSC’s coverage of Italian games (including serie a) is horrendous. And in fact, one day I was so mad after some Fox Football Fone-In and Super Sunday Plus shows (same culprits that sometimes show up as ridiculously biased and ignorant announcers), I did fill out a feedback form on their website. I questioned the logic of having show hosts, announcers etc who demean a league shown on the same channel!

Maybe someone can write an Offside blog entry completely focused on our gripes with FSC– and then make people sign it as comments, and send them the link. I just really hate it that they try to ruin any new interest in Serie A and leagues other than EPL.

Btw, the guys announcing are not interns (we wish!). They are full time hosts on FSC’s other shows too.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:31:15 +0000

FSC’s U21 announcers make me uncomfortable when I listen to them. All I imagine is them presenting tapes of these games while trying to get real announcing jobs. These guys have to be interns or something, couldn’t imagine that it would be a high paying position.