Ramble Meets... James Horncastle
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
James Horncastle is a writer, broadcaster and pundit specialising in Italian football. Here, in this latest episode of Ramble Meets... he tells Luke about his path to his current role in the vanguard of Italian football coverage, from a kid growing up in Hull to a highly respected journalist rubbing shoulders with Carlo Ancelotti and Marcelo Lippi.
In his own passionate style, James also speaks eloquently on the future of European football, how mastering the Italian language helped him get ahead, and what advice he would give to aspiring journalists looking to find their way in the game.
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| 0:33.9 | This episode of ramble meets is sponsored by Betfair 365. |
| 0:38.2 | James Horncastle, football writer and broadcaster and gazetta football italia baby. |
| 0:44.5 | James, it's a pleasure to have you here. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm not being sarcastic for once. |
| 0:57.0 | Lots of people have lots of different paths into football writing, football broadcasting, |
| 1:02.0 | being a part of football media. |
| 1:05.6 | How do you come to be here today? |
| 1:08.6 | Look, I never wanted to be anything else, I suppose. |
| 1:13.0 | I found other careers to be boring. |
| 1:17.1 | I remember at university, you know, where they had the careers fair and it's usually big |
| 1:21.4 | corporate companies that come and want you to attract you into insurance and to go and |
| 1:26.0 | work for their law firm. |
| 1:30.2 | Never spent any time in them. |
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