The Gentleman Ultra

In a new episode of The Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' host Frank Risorto asks the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team? Todays guest is Peter Alegi, an author, professor and Roman-American...

In a new episode of The Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' host Frank Risorto asks the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team? Todays guest is the owner of your one-stop shop for all things Argen...

In a new episode of The Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' host Frank Risorto asks the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team? Todays guest is football journalist and commentator for ESPN Brazil,...

In a new episode of The Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' host Frank Risorto asks the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team? Todays guest is football writer Martin Dunlop, contributor to The Ge...

In a new episode of The Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' host Frank Risorto asks the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team? Todays guest is Sal Bono, journalist and reporter and host of the Cu...

In a new episode of The Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' host Frank Risorto asks the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team? Todays guest is Tom Underhill, author of The Working Hands of a Godd...

In a new episode of The Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' host Frank Risorto asks the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team? Todays guest is Chris Lee, the author of the recently released book...

In a new episode of The Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' with host Frank Risorto we ask the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team?  For this episode we've called up the boss Richard Hall,...

In a new Gentleman Ultra podcast series '3 World Cup Questions' we ask the same three World Cup related questions to our friends in and around the world of Calcio. The three questions? What's your favourite World Cup moment? What's your favourite World Cup game? Who's your favourite World Cup team? First up we've got our friend Andy Wallace, the doyen of Italian lower league football, of Chiacchie...

In this episode of TGU podcast host Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with writer and journalist Tobias Jones.  Frank and Tobias talk about Tobias's award winning book 'Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football' and much more.  Tobias talks about the collective and shared experience of the Ultra movement, the history of the Ultras in Italy and how it has evolved over the years for bette...

In this episode of TGU podcast host Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with playwright, writer and lover of all things Italian football Ross Howard. Frank and Ross talk about Ross's first interaction with Italian football - watching Brescia play Bolton - his passion for Italian football and how he started collected thousands of hours of Italian football matches, MaraZola.com, his popular YouTube c...

In this episode of TGU podcast host Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with Paramount Plus and CBS Sports lead football commentator Andres Cordero. Andres and Frank discuss the rise of Serie A in North America and the always growing Calcio community, his first experience commentating live at the San Siro, his love of Serie A football as well as spending time in Italy as a part of his role with Par...

In this episode of TGU podcast host Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with football journalist, co-creator of Total Italian Football and Parma local, Conor Clancy.  Conor and Frank discuss his move to Parma from Ireland, the ins and outs of moving abroad and living in Italy, the Italian language, watching Italian football as a local and working in Italy as an accredited Serie A and UEFA jour...

In this episode of TGU podcast host Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with author, podcaster, poet, musician and co-host of the 'Stadio: A Football podcast', Musa Okwonga. Musa has authored five books including two in the last year. 'One of Them: An Eton College Memoir' and 'In The End, It Was All About Love' and co-authored a book with former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright called 'Striki...

In this episode of TGU podcast host Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with novelist, translator, professor and author of the classic Calcio book, 'A Season with Verona', Tim Parks. In this episode Frank talks to Tim reflect on the book's origins, lifespan and cult like status over the past 20 years. Tim tells Frank discuss how the book came about, the writing process, Italian politics, the Verona...

In this episode of TGU podcast host Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with author, journalist and presenter Guillem Balague (BBC5Live, CBS, LaLigaTV) who has written a book on Diego Maradona - 'Maradona. The Boy. The Rebel. The God' available now. In this episode Guillem tells Frank about his childhood and love of storytelling through the prism of football, how he got his start working as a footb...

In this episode of TGU podcast host Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with author of the new book 'The Defiant' Chris Lee. Frank and Chris talk about the origins of his new book 'The Defiant', the impact that facism and Benito Mussolini had on sport including football in Italy, the resistance movement amongst footballers, Italian stadiums, Chris's fandom of Fiorentina and his recent trip to Italy...

In this bonus episode of the TGU podcast Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with Mooney VR46 Moto GP rider Luca Marini. Frank and Luca discuss his love and passion for football and AS Roma, Francesco Totti, his recent charity football matches playing against fellow Moto GP riders and the likes Gabriel Batistuta and Totti himself, the thought process and emotions between football and Moto GP and mu...

In this episode of the TGU podcast Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with Roy Nemer, the editor of the Argentinean footballing website Mundo Albiceleste. Frank and Roy discuss his love and passion for Argentinean football, his website Mundo Albiceleste and the influence Argentina's finest footballers past and present have had on Italy and the Serie A. They discuss Maradona and Napoli, Italia 90',...

In this episode of the TGU podcast Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with the ESPN Brazil Serie A commentator and analyst Leonardo Bertozzi. Frank and Leonardo discuss Leonardo's early days in football, his career and love of the game and the influence calcio has had on Brazilian futebol. They discuss Leonardo's relationship with football, they take a deep dive on the past and present Brazilians...

In this episode of the TGU podcast Frank sits down for a chat with Ashwin Ballal who has authored the book on Diego Simeone, 'Made in Argentina, Mastered in Madrid' out now via Pitch Publishing. Frank and Ashwin discuss Simeone's playing career including his early days at Pisa, his subsequent move to Spain with Atlético Madrid and time in Italy with Inter Milan and Lazio. Ashwin talks about the be...

In this episode of the TGU podcast Frank sits down for a chat with the 'legendhino' himself, the one and only Tim Vickery. Frank and Tim get into the weeds of Italian film, why Tim has never travelled to Italy and discuss 'the other', Tim's early days in Brazil and how a certain shoe commercial changed everything. They talk about Italy and Brazil's World Cup rivalry including the iconic 1982 match...

In this episode Frank sits down for a chat with head designer of Italian apparel brand Zeus Sport, Amilcare Elvo. Amilcare and Frank discuss their favourite Calcio kits, the history of Zeus Sport, the process and steps involved in the design and manufacture of a football kit, Amilcare's love of design, Italian sporting brands and their influence , the strangest kit designs and much more. If you li...

If you want an in-depth Lega Pro season preview you've come to the right place. Frank and Andy run through the new Lega Pro season and then in a perfect accompaniment to his piece Andy runs us through his All-Star Lower League XI cult heroes piece recently published on The Gentleman Ultra.  Andy is besotted with the magical world of lower league Italian football and it tells as he runs throug...

In this episode Frank sits down for a chat with Dominic Bliss, journalist, author of 'Erbstein: The Triumph and Tragedy of Football's Forgotten Pioneer' and co-founder of The Egri Erbstein Tournament. Frank and Dominic chat the extraordinary life and times of Ernő Egri Erbstein. Erbstein was one of the greatest coaches there has ever been, a pioneering tactician and supreme man-manager who created...