If there's ever the same match on both RAI and FSC, which I suspect will happen often, which will you guys choose? FSC has a much better video quality I think, but I still have to go with RAI and their announcers.
Ahh, Christian Miles is doing the preview show, click. I lasted 30 seconds into the preview show before I bailed.
yep. I couldn't stand the comments about how "boring" the serie A is from the english guy when he did the games...or how italians tend to be "too tactical for their own selves"
yeah, i think you are talking about when nick webster occasionally did games. he basically would spend the broadcast making underhanded comments, essentially about how much serie a sucked in comparison to his beloved epl, which is fine for a fan to have on BS, but annoyed me as this was a broadcaster during serie a programming.
Judging by the first week's schedule it appears the FSC & RAI schedules will be almost identical and I'll choose RAI every time. I see no reason to watch FSC if RAI is showing the same match, though if FSC's picture quality is dramatically better I may go with FSC picture on one TV & RAI commentary on another (I have 4 TVs.)
that "preview" was...well, i guess FSC has left themselves room for improvement with their Serie A coverage. what a mess. that was almost as bad as the Serie A talk podcast preview where they just stumbled around previewing some of the "smaller" teams like Cagliari, Siena, etc... note that while the first week FSC's game are a direct match to RAI's games, they aren't in the second week. Hands down I'd rather watch RAI's coverage. Even if I only understand 60% of what is said, that's so much better than being disappointed at the 100% of the garbage I do understand with the FSC announcers. I'm willing to reserve judgement until I hear/see the broadcasts, but I'm skeptical based on the history of FSC and that steaming pile of a preview show I saw last night. 30 minutes to preview 20 teams? why bother? why even bother?
yeah that was a disaster. How hard would it be to get a knowledgable serie a guy (even an italian bobby mcmahon type) in studio for some decent commentary?
Last year the games on FOX sucked but this year with Genoa, Napoli and Juventus in the Serie A, a lot of the games might be pretty interesting....
Sucked maybe in terms of big-team star power but I found a good number of their games were pretty interesting (apart from the crappy commentary/play-by-play.) And this is another reason I prefer Serie A over the other European leagues. Partly due to the liberal loan policy in Serie A (with bigger teams loaning out their future stars to smaller teams,) and partly due, maybe, to superior scouting networks (resulting in teams like Cagliari fielding Suazo, for instance) almost every team in the league has at least one & often 2-3 players worth the price of admission. This is in direct contrast to England, for instance, where below the top five or so I just don't see any teams with one player, much less 2-3 who I'd tune in just for the pleasure of watching. Looking back over the past few years we have seen some pretty damn entertaining calcio played by some smaller teams featuring -- Cassano (Bari,) Miccoli (Perugia,) Bojinov (Lecce,) Rocchi (Empoli.) While Spain is certainly up there in terms of overall entertainment, as you go down the league table there you find the crappier teams littered more with has-beens (faded stars) & never-weres (unfulfilled potential) than young up & coming home-grown starlets or future foreign, Suazo-like stars. Of course there are exceptions, Sevilla (good young Spaniards) and Villareal (excellent finds in South America) chief among them.
That is real true. I watched the games this morning and as oposed the Italian Serie A & B matches the EPL plays more zone. I must say it does look like a more spectacular way to play but the defenses also give away way too much. Totteham was up twice by two goals only to let Fulham play their game to come back tie the match and win a point. This is unherd of in Italy. I remember watching Brescia -Juventus last year and when Bresica went up in the Serie B playing against many of the owrld champs, they would not let a 3-0 lead slip away that easily. As far as watching Italian matches on Fox, the network seems to be showing the same matches as the RAI International. I guess they must have forked over the money to pay for the top matches.
ahh, the wonders of fsc. at half time of the empoli-inter game. the guy (don't know his name) was doing the highlights, and inter is wearing the colors of the milan city crest, which are red and white. So he is a snippet: "in the 14' the nerazzurri grab a goal to go ahead, well they're normally the nerazzurri, as today they are ...(silent awkward pause) the red and whites." I laughed out loud.
Even better is that the match following the game is Newcastle v Wigan, the latter pronounced "WY-gan of course.
why is the english language broadcast like 30 seconds removed from the actual action? come on fsc, get you s**t together.
I'm not sure about that but as far as the sound quality on FSC is concerned, it was a lot better than Rai. At least it did this afternoon during the Samp-Lazio match as I kept flipping back and forth. FSC to me anyway, sounded much better.
the samp-lazio game was fine, the roma game it was so irritating to see something but the announcer was way off, so i had to mute it.
What I can't stand is the commercial that says "il calcio italiano soltanto per FOX SOCCER ". Now I'm not certain but after living in Florence for 4 years and after majoring in Italian, I'm pretty sure that the way he says it is not really the correct usage of the Italian language. His accent also needs a lot of work........che pizza!
if they mean "italian soccer only on fox" the correct phrase would be il calcio italiano soltanto (solo is better, though, it's less heavy) su fox soccer
Io penso che sia meglio dire, "soltanto tramite il canale FOX"! At least that is what I herd living in Italy. Whether its right or wrong is another story. I know that Chris Sullivan did some work in Italy with Baggio and a few other players. I wonder if they used his translation/interpretations?
...and why have they employed a guy with the all the on-air poise of an eight-year-old kid in a school play? Almost makes me pine for Max Bretos.