Football Italia’s going home
If you’re seeing this message, it’s probably because you’ve tried to visit the Football Italia website on Channel 4, and you hadn’t previously seen our announcement that the site has gone to a new home: www.football-italia.net
The Football Italia website was part of Channel4.com for 10 very successful years, starting when we had the rights to broadcast Italian football in the UK, and continuing long after the TV coverage had begun its peripatetic journey through several different UK broadcasters.
And now the company that had provided the content for us all that time, JDT Sports Productions, has taken over the running of the site and moved it to a new, dedicated website outside of Channel 4.
The site remains the foremost English-language source of all news, rumours and match reports on Italian football. It is made by the same journalistic team, to the same editorial standards, but it now has the freedom to grow and develop in its own direction outside of the Channel 4 platform.
We wish the whole Football Italia family well and trust the site will go from strength to strength in its new home.
Arrivederci e forza Football Italia!
[this comment edited 30th July 2009 to reflect the closure of the C4 site]
[Update 18th August 2009:]
Thanks for all the kind words from Football Italia’s many fans. Hopefully everyone has found their way to the new site now – this blog post is now closed for comments.
Comments
July 22, 2009
Does anybody know if ESPN-UK are planning to show serie A ? It`s been gone from our screens too long.
July 22, 2009
This website has provided an invaluable insight into the Italian game and I have used the site for a very long time now, hope this is a good move and everything remains the same. Once again a great website and brilliant journalism.
July 22, 2009
you are the best to those who love italy in israel!
July 22, 2009
Keep up the good work, you have a great site!
As a big Serie A fan i really appreciate the classy and serious site your running!
July 22, 2009
Excellent news! Hopefully you’ll be able to add some extra content to the site without a fear of diminishing the incentive to buy your magazine. Good luck!
July 22, 2009
this is a shame. I have been following serie a ever since gazza first signed by lazio. Even after all the scandals my love for this league and of course juve!
However i feel that this move would be bad news for us. As without the backing and protection provided by c4 the new website could be at risk, especially as interest in serie a is floundering in the uk with sky’s insistence to keep showing la liga. Almost ignoring this leage altogether (they only mention serie through stereotype such as its too defensive and boring)
how will this new website will be able to compete and advertise serie a for its true values.
Hopefully im wrong.
Forza calcio italia!
July 22, 2009
Goodluck with this transition! Ill be honest im used to typing the old URL but I like this new one way way better. Its nice and simple and makes more sense!
Gluck to all of you guys behind the scenes in bringing us the best and most accurate and honest news on anything related to Italian news.
Really the best website out there, I check it every hour! lol
Forza Milan! Forza Italia!
July 22, 2009
Great News! Milan Fan from Panama!
July 22, 2009
Thank you for hosting Football Italia for so many years. Its been a great source of Serie A and Italian football news for us English-speaking viewers.
I just hope the new home offers the same service for many more years. Just had a look, would’ve thought it would’ve had a lick of pain!
Thanks to all involved!
July 22, 2009
Thank you so much.. i feel now that we’ll get even more from this new site… Let’s see how it goes! I have been a frequent/daily viewer of Channel4 Football Italia’s page. And I must say I am well informed!
Kudos to the team!
July 22, 2009
Well done on all the great work you have done over the years, and my excitement for the new direction away from ch4 grows at the same pace as my annoyance for Moratti.
Forza Juve!
July 22, 2009
nice . i hope now you post more news like goal.com for ex.
keep the nice worke you have been doing .
July 22, 2009
I just want to say thanks for your work, despite I am not always agree with your point of view
July 22, 2009
Well, I just wanted to thank you for your site, because maybe I’m not from UK, but Israel and doesn’t speak Italian – so your site help a lot to understand what is going on. Thank you.
July 22, 2009
Has anyone bought the rights to show the games on TV this season?
July 22, 2009
i love this website
July 22, 2009
I will be looking forward to what this new platform could bring in the magical world of Italian footboll.
Your reporting and blogs has always been top-notch and I hope that will continue.
Good luck and arrivderci!
July 22, 2009
Its better they split from Channel4, if Channel4 don’t want to broadcast Serie A, then the best web site in the world should have nothing to do with them!
July 22, 2009
Many thanks Channel4 for such excellent coverage throughout the years, always my first point of call each morning,
Arrivederci
July 22, 2009
i hope this movement will improve the site news to the best .. thanks for everything u have done .. and keep working in the same way this site is my favorite one and its my home page 2
July 22, 2009
you guys are the best site out there regarding football , specially Italian football
the features are amazing i hope you do improve more!
July 22, 2009
GOOD LUCK!
Thanks for the great website!
July 22, 2009
Best wishes
July 22, 2009
good luck…
July 22, 2009
Great to see that the background team will remain. Looking forward to seeing the plans for the new job.
July 22, 2009
very nice hope to see more features added to the new website. calcio italiano per sempre.
best of luck to this new project
July 23, 2009
Well done to the FI team, glad to see you’s own your own home at last!
July 23, 2009
new website with new look, good luck and i will always support u guys
July 23, 2009
in you i trust, keep it up.. my best site and my homepage
good luck with the new site
July 23, 2009
an excellent moving…
July 23, 2009
I have always loved your editorial quality. I wish you all the luck and hope that the website will get even better.
BTW, I have changed my bookmark.
July 23, 2009
Well done
July 23, 2009
i think the website is ok, we can see many content on it. if the website is updating all the time, it will be better
July 23, 2009
Well, now it will be easier to refer the football italia site to friends. Good going but I hope they will redesign the looks of the site to become more web 2.0-ish
July 23, 2009
Forza http://www.football-italia.net
keep continuing the news..
i’ve been reading for 5 years..
thanks again for all the dedication…
July 23, 2009
Congratulations! I’m the website’s biggest fan and have been reading it consistently, everyday, for the past 10 years, and have your URL as my primary bookmark on all conceivable platforms and browsers – IE, Mozilla both at home and in the office, as well as on my iPhone – it’s the first website I visit every morning. Here’s looking forward to more groundbreaking content, interviews and blogs at the new URL for decades to come!
July 23, 2009
Hi guys. Good job on moving on your own. I have followed this site for almost a year now after stumbling on it through a search engine. I’m Ghanaian and admire the Italian game. Keep up the good work.
July 23, 2009
Forza Football Italia, i’ve been a fan for few years. Keep up the good work.
July 23, 2009
Hey, it’s great! Keep up the good work. Wish to see Football Italia RSS Feed soon, that’s the only thing missing in the old site!
July 23, 2009
this is a good development particularly to all italian football fans. I wish you all the best
July 23, 2009
I only hope that the news will stay the same, very accurate and realistic rumours. I don’t want you to go around crazy inventing stuff, because you have other websites for that. I was reading C4 football italia because it was very serious journalism.
PS: I have to admit that the currency in the reports is sometimes confusing (Euro vs GBP).
Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work !
FORZA INTER
July 23, 2009
well done, the great site for reading about Calcio, keeps it up
July 23, 2009
This website is my first port of call every day. I love Italian football and your coverage of it. However, i am constantly frustrated by the old site and the new site not being able to give me the stories on the day they are written. 6 days out of 7 i click on go to stories and it brings up the ones that are 2 days old. Please can you sort out this problem as it is frustrating being behind the times.
Thank you.
Forza Roma!
July 23, 2009
I am a fan from Bangkok. Visiting your website every morning for more than 5 years. . Thank you for providing excellent Football Italia news for us fans.
July 23, 2009
Hi Steven Richardson,
Just to let you know I don’t get that problem and i haven’t come across anyone else complaining about that on a forum.
That might be something to do with the cache and cookie settings on your web browser as opposed to the FI website, so google to find a solution. Hope you get it sorted out.
Forza…
July 23, 2009
its been almost like an addiction wanting to find out what the latest on my beloved Juve, if had spent as much time reading medicine as i have in FI website, i’d be a Dr. by now! the best thing about FI is you are never biased although some blogs Favor Inter ive noticed
unlike goal .com you tell it like it is without the added huhas!
thank you very very much FI team
July 23, 2009
Abdi! No way!
How’s it going man, see you in Murrays!
Forza Juve!
July 23, 2009
thanks for all your hard work guys!! i click on this site at least 5 times a day… and i have been visiting it for the last 5 years at least….you guys have been fantastic although I tend to use newsnow aggregator to get my Serie A news.
Good luck in your future endeavors
July 23, 2009
Greetings from the USA, you run a fantastic website, the best for all things calcio. When I wake up I get a cup of coffee and type in channel4.com.sport… but thins change, and I’ll just have to get used to a few different keystrokes. It’ll happen eventually, but given my normal morning condition it may take some time. Anyhow, good luck to all and thanks again for running my favorite website. Forza Juve.
July 23, 2009
the website is the best for football news on the net. i have been a user of the website for so many years now and i hope the great journalism continues.
and lets get italian football back on our screens!!!!!!!
July 23, 2009
Forza Inter! We start this new website as Champions! Forza Inter!!!
July 24, 2009
Been going on C4 website for years, it feels weird changing. But good move. All the best and keep up the great work.
July 24, 2009
Congratulations on your new home!
I have been a Football Italia regular visitor for more than 5 years…
There are many times when I saw those latest news and quick match reports from FI, I feel touched by the hard work of FI journalists behind the scene. I want to say a big THANK YOU to them!
Grande Football Italia!!
July 25, 2009
First, many thanks to Channel 4 for their pioneering coverage of calcio and their continued support of this website – although I’m sure there was plenty in it for them, and if we’re honest, the last days of C4’s TV coverage were hugely disappointing. Cutting Roma’s scudetto celebrations to show an old b&w film was obviously a low, but there are many happier memories.
Secondly, and more importantly, I have to wish ‘buona fortuna’ to the team who produce this fab website. It’s quality and speed of update is phenomenal, and like many others on this blog, I visit the site every day.
I hope that one consequence of the move will be an improved forum. Since C4 started over-moderating the forum here, two independent fora have sprung up at rival websites. It would be good to unite the perhaps dwindling band of English-speaking calciofili on a single, quality forum.
I hope too that independence from C4 will enable the website to report more freely on possible destinations for Seria TV coverage in the UK. Last summer, for example, there were all sorts of rumours about Setanta coverage, but it never came to fruition. I can’t be the only fan who spends too much time trawling internet fora trying to find out about developments. I appreciate that this site cannot report blatant rumour, but hopefully it will now be possible to report on a genuine interest, such as Setanta’s last year (which was prematurely announced on the channel by James Richardson).
Grazie mille everyone, and Forza Roma
July 26, 2009
If UK users of this site email, premierleague@espn.com and ask about Serie A coverage,they might see the light and show it.
July 29, 2009
Great Work Guys, Love the mag, love the site! look forward to a new era!
July 29, 2009
Keep up the good work, we all know that Italian football is floundering at the moment but we all love to support it
July 29, 2009
Guys, you’re the best, I’m an everyday reader of “Football Italia” from Bulgaria for at least 3 or 4 years. I don’t know how to thank you for all the information that you deliver us every day. Hope to see new things on the new web site, greetings from Bulgaria, wish you all the best
p.s. Forza Viola!!!
July 29, 2009
For those who remember the glory days of James Richardson, Peter Brackley, appalling puns and and giant cakes, it’s sad to see the C4 / Serie A link finally broken. However, thanks for a great site, C4 (even if, in recent years, its content has borne a remarkable similarity to that of calciomercato.com…)
July 29, 2009
I been an avid reader since years ago, back to the heydays of only a handful of good sites covering the magnificent sport, namely yours, onefootball and soccerage. I still visit yahoo! and soccernet for some generic info, but when it comes to football news from the country that I really love aside of my own homeland, I never been lookin anywhere else as yours is the ultimate source of anything good (and sometimes not!) from the realm of Italian football. Keep up the good works, and best of luck with all your future endeavors!
July 29, 2009
Thank you C4 for the years of great service! From the glory days of watching on tv as a kid to keeping the website up and running even after tv broadcasting ended! As a daily reader, good luck and keep up the excellent work!
Forza Italia!
July 30, 2009
Great great coverage plus extrordinary journalism. Couldn’t pass a day without visiting your website.Thank you so much for everything and best of luck. Keep it up from one fan from Sudan.
July 30, 2009
I’m glad this website is continuing!
I just hope some British tv station realises how popular Italian football is in this country and returns it to our screens!
July 30, 2009
I return with a message that contains a request: I kindly ask you guys if it’s possible to maintain a few days archive, at least for 14 days. It happens that I go on holiday or somewhere without going online and I can’t catch up with what happened during those days.
I really hope the quality and the traditional seriousness will be the same.
Thanks a lot!
Keep up the good woork!
PS: For all the INTER fans, you can join our biggest english forum @ forzainterforums.com! FORZA INTER!
July 30, 2009
Forza Milan!!!
July 30, 2009
thank u all ac milan wil be the champions
forza acmilan
July 30, 2009
i love inter
July 30, 2009
The best football website around will hopefully continue to play to its strengths of up to date news and responsible, well researched and detailed journalism. Even when reporting on controversial issues such as the role of the Ultras the writing both on the website and magazine is fair and balanced, pointing out both the negative incidents they are involved in but also the positive aspects of this interesting side of Italian football.
I constantly search websites for news of English coverage of Italian football as a means of escape from the sanitised, corporate, horrendously dull English premier League but alas to no avail. I do however live in hope and we may get to see some in around a month or so if the BBC decide to pick up the Milan derby again on 30 August, however they may not feel inclined to following Beckhams return to Galaxy. Thanks for all your efforts on the website and magazine and thanks to Channel 4 for making Sunday afternoons worthwhile when I was a kid.
July 30, 2009
as inter fan i really appreciate your with all the insight about italian football you give keep it up you guys
July 30, 2009
This site has been an invaluable resource. Great reporting standards. Useful news. And a great alternative to all the glaring overhype about the Premiership. Thanks to Channel 4 for supporting it all these years, as I continue to be a loyal user.
July 30, 2009
Hi, where can i find a schedule of the shows aired in HD on channel4HD each day, there seems to be no information about this anywhere on the internet, it’s very dissapointing, you could atleast add a HD logo next to the program on here: http://www.channel4.com/tv-listings
July 30, 2009
End of an era. Every day for 10 years… thanks for the memories, here’s to the next 10.
P.S. Forza Inter.
July 30, 2009
the football italia website has been a great site i hope the new site is half as good .i have beenasibscriber to the calcio italia from day one. hope you keep up the good work .forza azzurri,
July 31, 2009
This is my best sport site, sorry i am serie A fan . thank you and keep up the good work. Forza MILAN
July 31, 2009
I AM FR INDIA WE DO NOT GET TV COVERAGE LIKE BPL IN INDIA. I AM BIG FAN OF JOSE AND SURELY WOULD LIKE TO VIEW ALL INTER MATCHES LIVE
July 31, 2009
Calcio rocks! It’s good to see so many people fight through the stereotypes (and sometimes racism), oh well, they’re the ones missing out!
July 31, 2009
A big thank you to Channel 4 for its backing down through the years. I would love to see channel 4 or even E4 show a few live games!! James Richardson back!! that would be cool!!
Forza Inter!! BamBam 1+8
July 31, 2009
NO DON`T KUPP ALONSO, ARE BEST EVVER!
SYGGE REAL MADRID
July 31, 2009
Thankyou for the coverage of italian football. I visit this site more than anyother had it not been for calciopoli the most successful italian team would be inter. Forza Inter the legend
August 1, 2009
i am from indonesia,it’s great news, can’t wait new season!
FORZA JUVE!!
August 1, 2009
Simply phenomenal work for 10 years, mate. Thank you.
All the best for the future.
Hope the site continues its good work. I’ve been using it for 4 or 5 years now and the blogs could be a bit better
August 1, 2009
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August 2, 2009
I am an avid fan of the Italian game from Australia and always buy the magazine and also going onto the website as well.I support AC Milan and also follow Serie A and even the other divisions in general. I look forward too the new season and any chance that there would be a part of the webiste if you could put some of the best matches from seasons gone by which were telvised by Channel 4 football italia. Cheers.
August 2, 2009
I ve been a reader of this site since 2001. It gives me good news in terms of football and news in general.
August 3, 2009
bookmark changed! REally like the site, was easily the best on C4. they had a good mix of news and opinion. Good luck guys. Forza Football Italia!
August 3, 2009
I’ve been following the site for so many years…practically daily! Thanks for all the good work and long may it continue!
August 5, 2009
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Thankyou ESPN, finally back on tv!
Enjoy Folks
August 9, 2009
this website has been the first thing i log onto every morning since the year 2000, easily the best website i have found on serie A
i am sad to see you go
August 10, 2009
Ive been on this website for years ,every single day-no lie for all the news regarding italian football.keep up the good work on the new website guys.
Ciao
Dino
August 10, 2009
Channel 4, thank you for hosting the site for as long as you did, you did a great job.
J
PS – you had the best version of the tv show as well with the superb James Richardson.
August 14, 2009
ESPN Has picked up the rights to show Serie A for 2009-10, and the first live game will be shown on 22nd August between Sienna v Milan
August 17, 2009
FORZA JUVE!
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