James Richardson (presenter)

James Richardson is an English television presenter and journalist.

He is best known as a former presenter of Channel 4's Football Italia programme and co-presenter of Setanta Sports' The Friday Football Show and Football Matters shows. He currently presents the Football Weekly podcast on guardian.co.uk, Sunday Night Football on BT Sport, and the English regional Late Kick Off (South, South West and West) football show for BBC One as well as making appearances on Football Today for the official Premier League Channel, Italian Serie A football Live on ESPN and British Eurosport's Tour de France live cycling coverage.

Football Italia presenter

Richardson was the anchor of Football Italia on Channel 4 from 1992 until 2002.Football Italia saw Richardson become well known and the show was cult viewing for football fans in the UK. Football Italia consisted of two weekend shows. On a Saturday, Richardson would present Gazzetta Football Italia, a magazine show which would round up the previous weekend's games, as well keeping viewers up to date with the latest Italian football news. The show would have Richardson sitting in a café in a picturesque setting somewhere in Italy. Usually armed with a sundae ice cream and a pile of Italian sports newspapers he would use them to show viewers the latest football stories and headlines from the country. He would interview players and managers on a regular basis for the show, since he was able to speak Italian. Meanwhile on a Sunday he would host live coverage from the stadium of one of the top Italian games that particular day. He also presented Mezzanotte, a Sunday night and mid-week show with highlights of one of the top matches of the weekend.